hammer
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So I've been fortunate enough to take four checkrides and to pass them all on my first try ..... but we all love good stories where people bust or pass when they shouldn't have. Let's hear 'em (for Citation Kid's benefit).
I knew one person in Orlando that failed his PPL-ASEL for starting the plane with the position lights on. Another failed the same checkride for not simulating opening her flightplan with FSS (even though everything else was satisfactory). Same DE - who is just a real peach - failed both these people.
On the other end of the spectrum, someone I know passed her Comm-AMEL even though she had to go-around on her single engine approach after she went full scale deflection on the ILS. Not sure how that one was given leniency. I actually landed my 180-Power Off about 15 feet short of the numbers but the DE just said "eh, within 100 feet, close enough."
In terms of more deserving failures, putting the DE into a spin over Lake Apopka was legendary as was taking off in the Aztec with full-flaps.
I knew one person in Orlando that failed his PPL-ASEL for starting the plane with the position lights on. Another failed the same checkride for not simulating opening her flightplan with FSS (even though everything else was satisfactory). Same DE - who is just a real peach - failed both these people.
On the other end of the spectrum, someone I know passed her Comm-AMEL even though she had to go-around on her single engine approach after she went full scale deflection on the ILS. Not sure how that one was given leniency. I actually landed my 180-Power Off about 15 feet short of the numbers but the DE just said "eh, within 100 feet, close enough."
In terms of more deserving failures, putting the DE into a spin over Lake Apopka was legendary as was taking off in the Aztec with full-flaps.