AN INSTRUCTOR AND HIS STUDENT IN A PA28-161 AT LEESBURG; VA; RPT A CONFLICT WITH ANOTHER ACFT APCHING TO LAND ON THE OPPOSING END OF THE RWY THEY WERE PRACTICING LNDGS.

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EARLY FLT TO PRACTICE SHORT AND SOFT FIELD OPS. MY STUDENT AND I WERE 1 HR INTO THE FLT WHEN THERE WERE SEVERAL ARRS ON THE LOC RWY 17 APCH WHICH RESULTED IN SOME DEP DELAYS FOR ACFT WAITING ON THE STRAIGHT-IN TFC. ONE CITATION JET RPTED A 6 MI FINAL AND MY STUDENT AND I SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTED A SOFT-FIELD TKOF AND WERE OFF THE RWY AND CLR CAUSING NO PROB TO THE ARRIVING CITATION. 2 LNDGS LATER; WE WERE FACED WITH ANOTHER CITATION WHO RPTED A 4 MI FINAL. I INSTRUCTED MY STUDENT TO EXPEDITE HIS DEP AND PERFORM YET ANOTHER SOFT-FIELD TKOF. THERE WAS SOME DELAY ON MY STUDENT'S PART; AND WE LOST VALUABLE SECONDS. WE ROLLED ONTO THE CTRLINE AND BEGAN THE TKOF; BUT THE CITATION HAD TO EXECUTE A GAR. THE CLOSE CALL WAS COMPLETELY MY FAULT. I MADE A POOR JUDGEMENT CALL AND ENDANGERED BOTH CREWS AND ACFT. THE CREWS WERE FRENCH CANADIAN AND I FELT THAT PERHAPS THEIR UNFAMILIARITY WITH THE APCH CAUSED THEM TO UNDERESTIMATE THEIR DISTANCE OUT. IT WAS I WHO UNDERESTIMATED THE SPD OF THE CITATION AND MADE ONE OF THE POOREST DECISIONS IN MY FLYING CAREER. IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE SKILL OF THE CREW; I FEEL THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENT OUTCOME AND FAR MORE TO COME OF IT THAN THIS RPT.