On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:11:23 -0800, BT wrote:

how many pilots do you know
that can consitantly land with the nose wheel on the stripe. Let alone be
accurate for the touch down point down the runway.

I don't know. I suppose that this was the question I was really asking.

I took the checkride for the partnership I joined just after getting my
instrument rating. But the checkride was a PPL checkride. I flubbed the
short-field landings part (and I wasn't too good at looking out the window
either {8^).

It was a sobering experience for me. I've worked to avoid letting any of
my skills atrophy like that since then.

[And I've since passed that ride, of course.]

I've yet to actually finish up the commercial (I'm on the slow path {8^),
but most landings offer spot landing practice.

- Andrew