"Jon Kraus" wrote in message

Just curious as to how many of us are in the "Flunked a Checkride" club.
It seems that the fail rate for the IFR checkride is more prevalent than
the Private.

I failed my Private because I used a private field as a waypoint in my
cross-country plan. I can claim in my defense that I was my instructor's
first student, and when we were prepping for the checkride and he had me do,
by coincidence, nearly the same cross-country plan, I used the field and he
said it was good.

Passed my IFR on the first try, in IMC, but I can't imagine how. I haven't
been that stressed out since Marine Corps OCS.

-c