What do you mean "improbable"? The student gets his rating in a Cirrus,
rents a 172 on vacation, it has no GPS, and it loses vacuum.
Jose

That's no excuse for an examiner to create his own personal PTS.

I don't know that's creating "his own personal PTS". The examiner is
supposed to show that the applicant is safe for the flying he or she is
licensed to do.

Well, yes, the resulting pilot should also have the sense to not fly
aircraft he is ill equipped to handle should failure-prone components
fail, but this can be overextended the other way to not require
licensing at all.

What is your opinion of "just learn the answers" to the written test,
and that being sufficent for the oral? IN all cases judgment is involved.

Jose
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