"Peter Duniho" wrote in message

Well, to be fair, that's different than you first described it. You
failed
your checkride because you misidentified a waypoint. Not "because [you]
used a private field as a waypoint".

Sort of. Specifically, he told me not to use a private field as a waypoint.
Whether it or the other is what he based the failure on, I don't really
know. Went I went back for the retest, I used a VOR intersection and that
settled it. In fact, we didn't even go all the way to the waypoint.

Sounds like a fair bust to me.

I agree. My instructor didn't. That's when I discovered I was his first
student since he graduated from flight school, so I think it hurt his pride
a little, and embarrassed him because he approved of a checkpoint that the
examiner didn't.

-c