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"Morgans" wrote:

"Mark Hansen" wrote

the DE can't really check you out in
every possible circumstance, so he has to pick. He picked this one.

I've heard it said, that the DE knows if you are going to pass or not, by
the way you taxi out to the runway, and run-up. Kinda true?

I suspect a good DE knows if you're going to pass or not long before you
ever get to the airplane.