CoffeeIcePapers
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Here is the quick and dirty. My student failed his private checkride on Friday for diversion, everything else was ok.
Today, he takes the checkride, does the diversion fine and comes back to land. There is a NOTAM closing the first 2065 feet of the runway. My student comes in a little low, the tower reminds him not to touchdown on the closed portion, so he adds some power and touches down on the open portion of the runway.
Should this constitute a failure? He never touched down on the closed portion, and I verified this with the tower. In the PTS, it says "any action or lack of action by the applicant that requires corrective intervention by the examiner to maintain safe flight." Since it was the tower that intervened, and not the examiner, do I have any recourse here?
Today, he takes the checkride, does the diversion fine and comes back to land. There is a NOTAM closing the first 2065 feet of the runway. My student comes in a little low, the tower reminds him not to touchdown on the closed portion, so he adds some power and touches down on the open portion of the runway.
Should this constitute a failure? He never touched down on the closed portion, and I verified this with the tower. In the PTS, it says "any action or lack of action by the applicant that requires corrective intervention by the examiner to maintain safe flight." Since it was the tower that intervened, and not the examiner, do I have any recourse here?