Jon Kraus wrote :
Just curious as to how many of us are in the "Flunked a Checkride"
club.

I'm in that club. I breezed through all of the manuvers on the PPL
ride, went back to the airport and did all of the requisite landings.
On the last time around, the DE asked for a short/soft field landing
and added that he'd be writing up my temporary certificate once it was
completed. Well, that was enough to rattle me. I made two attempts
and both resulted in very ugly landings, with the DE having to apply
power to arrest the sink rate. I'd managed to psyche myself out.

Afterwards, my instructor and I went out and I did 10 of these
landings, all perfect. The DE was still hanging around and both he and
my instructor found this very amusing. The following week I took the
DE up for two more landings and that was the end of it.
John Galban====N4BQ (PA28-180)