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[Oh that's HUGELY retarded.
The checklist is a checklist and not a do-list, for the most part.
Having the position lights on prior to engine start isn't a safety related thing. In fact, it probably fosters more safety because people on the ramp will have an easier time visually avoiding the aircraft during engine start.
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Agree. Like I said, I hate these MORONIC DEs that give examiners bad names because they evaluate TECHNIQUE rather than evaluating PROCEDURE.
Idiots like this guy piss me off. Would love to take a number of them for a good strangling.
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lol...why strangle when you can strafe?
back to the thread, I sank the money ball on all my ratings.Everything well within standards (particularily smooth weather of my IA checkride ...lucky) But on my CFI I would have flunked myself. I had just aced the 7 hour oral (nasty stuff , and it this point I figured I had one of those "crazy dpe's"). I skipped lunch because Ice was coming in FAST and I had to somehow get a 2 -3 hour checkride done and a 2 hour flight home when visibility is dropping like crazy and it'll be dark (winter in Iowa) in 3 hours plus ice ice ice. All that was on my mind was flying home solo at night in a confirmed ice/wind storm (that was 3 hours away) in the mighty arrow. Dumbassness is pretty common when you don't eat, because I never thought about the possibility of sleeping on the FBO couch. Annnnyyyyway, right off the bat at 50agl he pulls the throttle and I'm staring at the weather coming in , and I do all my stuff except put the gear back down. He tells me "that at a big airport I should leave the gear down till there is no way to make it back down to the runway and he says it's probably a bad habit I get from flying out of xyz 2500foot runway airport, and that I should be concerned with the checkride and not the weather". He read my mind and then I did everything else fine and he let me pass. I wouldnt have blamed him it he didn't but I think that was pretty cool on his part since he is supposed to be flunking CFI applicants.
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[Oh that's HUGELY retarded.
The checklist is a checklist and not a do-list, for the most part.
Having the position lights on prior to engine start isn't a safety related thing. In fact, it probably fosters more safety because people on the ramp will have an easier time visually avoiding the aircraft during engine start.
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Agree. Like I said, I hate these MORONIC DEs that give examiners bad names because they evaluate TECHNIQUE rather than evaluating PROCEDURE.
Idiots like this guy piss me off. Would love to take a number of them for a good strangling.
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lol...why strangle when you can strafe?
back to the thread, I sank the money ball on all my ratings.Everything well within standards (particularily smooth weather of my IA checkride ...lucky) But on my CFI I would have flunked myself. I had just aced the 7 hour oral (nasty stuff , and it this point I figured I had one of those "crazy dpe's"). I skipped lunch because Ice was coming in FAST and I had to somehow get a 2 -3 hour checkride done and a 2 hour flight home when visibility is dropping like crazy and it'll be dark (winter in Iowa) in 3 hours plus ice ice ice. All that was on my mind was flying home solo at night in a confirmed ice/wind storm (that was 3 hours away) in the mighty arrow. Dumbassness is pretty common when you don't eat, because I never thought about the possibility of sleeping on the FBO couch. Annnnyyyyway, right off the bat at 50agl he pulls the throttle and I'm staring at the weather coming in , and I do all my stuff except put the gear back down. He tells me "that at a big airport I should leave the gear down till there is no way to make it back down to the runway and he says it's probably a bad habit I get from flying out of xyz 2500foot runway airport, and that I should be concerned with the checkride and not the weather". He read my mind and then I did everything else fine and he let me pass. I wouldnt have blamed him it he didn't but I think that was pretty cool on his part since he is supposed to be flunking CFI applicants.
