Cool story bro. I failed my CFI. I haven’t had another failed check ride or bent metal for the 15+ years. Lump me in with the poor applicant pile. That’s fine.
You know why I don’t care what you think? You don’t matter. Your job is a joke and aviation training is a dumpster fire. The FAA and everyone involved is something for professionals to laugh at.
Say what you want to make yourself feel better. Oh look. No one cares because you’re the aviation career equivalent of a bump in the road.
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Being unnecessarily #triggggered aside, I did my IFR/CP ASEL/ASES/AMEL/CFI/CFII with two DPEs, split about evenly, just depending on who was available on fairly short notice. Both were considered to be on the harder side of the local spectrum, both I found to be completely fair. They are also friends to the best of my knowledge.
That being said, the two have COMPLETELY different idea of how a power off 180 should be performed. One was giving me crap about mine, the second one thought them to be exemplary. Same maneuver, performed identically. One’s philosophy was that the PTS (back then) allows you a window of error for altitude (I forget what it was now and too lazy to look up. 100 feet up or down?), err on the side of high in the beginning, and then fly the power off 180 as close to a standard pattern as possible. That same guy also had me do it all on 2300ft runway that I thankfully went to before like once for cheap fuel. In retrospect, that was a good thing, as I concentrated and stressed about it just enough to up my motivation to give the best I could. There were people have also failed just by stressing over that runway being shorter, than what they were used to. Chalk it up to the guy’s fight against the puppy mills. The other guy agreed with me on power off 180 being a “point it at the numbers asafp and then bleed off the extra energy when/if needed” maneuver. Two DPEs, both with “he’s hard” reputation, knew each other very well, completely different understanding of how the maneuver should look like.