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Inverted said:
I routinely conduct checkrides for applicants with over 100 hours. If they meet or exceed the standard, they get a certificate. I can recount several who flew fantastically and made excellent decisions.

Total time isn't any greater a metric on whether somebody is a good pilot or not, any more than the ACS standards themselves.
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One of my first questions on a check ride will be:
"Why did it take you 100+ to get signed off?"
 
DropTank said:
One of my first questions on a check ride will be:
"Why did it take you 100+ to get signed off?"
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What do you want their answer to be? Why is it any of my business? How much of a boob would I feel if I asked that at the beginning of their checkride, and was told that their daughter had cancer, so he started and stopped for years before she died? Good tone to start before a checkride? Does that give you any indication of their flying abilities? Does their answer give you an unconscious bias that you will then impose on them during a checkride?

Evaluators are simply that, evaluators. We are not therapists, gatekeepers, or life coaches.
 
Inverted said:
What do you want their answer to be? Why is it any of my business? How much of a boob would I feel if I asked that at the beginning of their checkride, and was told that their daughter had cancer, so he started and stopped for years before she died? Good tone to start before a checkride? Does that give you any indication of their flying abilities? Does their answer give you an unconscious bias that you will then impose on them during a checkride?

Evaluators are simply that, evaluators. We are not therapists, gatekeepers, or life coaches.
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"My daughter died of cancer and I took 6 months off"
You have my condolences. That's something that no parent should ever have to endure. I'm glad you've persevered.
That said, are you ready for your check ride?

And we ARE gate keepers.
That the [fornicating] job.

When the tasks are not completed satisfactory without doubt of the safety or outcome, you shall not pass.

If that's a problem for you... you need to surrender your Letter of Authorization and find something else to do.
 
DropTank said:
"My daughter died of cancer and I took 6 months off"
You have my condolences. That's something that no parent should ever have to endure. I'm glad you've persevered.
That said, are you ready for your check ride?

And we ARE gate keepers.
That the [fornicating] job.

When the tasks are not completed satisfactory without doubt of the safety or outcome, you shall not pass.

If that's a problem for you... you need to surrender your Letter of Authorization and find something else to do.
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I am not sure what you are arguing here, but I don't think you understand the job iof a DPE

It is absolutely NOT my job to keep anyone from testing for a certificate. Nor is it my job to fail them because they have too many hours or have previous failures. They could have 600 hours of dual received when they come to me. If they meet or exceed the minimum standards per the ACS, they get a certificate. It is that simple. I see an applicant for a total of maybe 6 hours from end to end, and I have to make the determination that they are qualified to be a certificated pilot and fly in the national airspace system. If they do that, I don't care how many previous failures they have, or how many hours they have. When they update the 8900, the 800.95D, and ACS to have me care about that and make a determination on an applicant, I will do that. Until then, I won't.
 
Inverted said:
I am not sure what you are arguing here, but I don't think you understand the job iof a DPE

It is absolutely NOT my job to keep anyone from testing for a certificate. Nor is it my job to fail them because they have too many hours or have previous failures. They could have 600 hours of dual received when they come to me. If they meet or exceed the minimum standards per the ACS, they get a certificate. It is that simple. I see an applicant for a total of maybe 6 hours from end to end, and I have to make the determination that they are qualified to be a certificated pilot and fly in the national airspace system. If they do that, I don't care how many previous failures they have, or how many hours they have. When they update the 8900, the 800.95D, and ACS to have me care about that and make a determination on an applicant, I will do that. Until then, I won't.
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I'm ABSOLUTELY sure I do.

But you've missed the point.

And that's ok in a forum....
 
DropTank said:
And that's ok in a forum....
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Your house has been DISHONORED! You shall challenge him Klingon "cha'DIch" to restore your name!

(Technically, a bad Star Trek Klingon because I reject the Discovery universe with full measure — shut up, @Autothrust Blue)
 
Karnage said:
DS9 RULES THEM ALL!

And I will not be taking any questions, dissenters please forward your contact information to Garak.
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Yes. And I really dig (dug?) "Strange New Worlds" as kind of an in-between "Lower Decks" and TOS.

Good god, that mans hair. Glorious. I'd watch a spicy movie with just La'An and Pike's hair starring in it. Chapel can watch.
 
Rare for civilian route PPLs and such to “wash out.” If they have the $$, the system seems fine with them being professional student pilots.

Heck, Jerry is out there constantly stumbling his way through aviation life, barely competent and making his YouTube videos. Yeti someone out there signed him off and put their name in his logbook as “meets standards.”
 
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