At 06:18 14 July 2005, Bruce Hoult wrote:
'Gosh, that sounds pretty lax, unless it's a rather
rough and gusty day (and would you do an exam on such
a day?).'

Reminds me of my pp sel checkride in a 172a mid august
phx az at 2:00pm on a Sun afternoon with one of the
cylinders with stuck rings. so much for altitude, direction,
or atitude holding. I couldn't even read the compass
because it was vibrating so badly at low RPM's.She
tried to 'show me ' how to do it! Finally the examiner
said to forget chasing the airspeed as we went through
the 15 kt thermals and 20kt cross wind and went through
all of the position stuff, vor ect ect. Best idea I
ever had taking it then