I was surprised also on having no partial panel during the test. I'm
guessing he thinks that the instructor has signed me off, so therefore
I must know it, and he doesn't need to test on all tasks. For talking
on the radio, my examiner didn't want to contact approach for the
cross country portion because he wanted to control where we went.
After the cross country portion, he had me do the talking for the
approaches.

On Mar 21, 8:00 pm, Tim wrote:
He obviously didn;t really care about doing a real test - no partial
panel? WTF? I think I read that in the original post.

No wonder people plow into mountains all the time - anyone can pass the
practical. Instructors send their students to the "easiest" DE and the
rest is history (or statistics)

No offense to the OP - I am sure you were prepared and can fly well, but
the local examiner(s) here scare the **** out of me.

The examiner here does all the radio work and the flight is probably
about 40 minutes max. No way you can do three approaches, holds,
partial panel, attitude recovery, takeoff and landing in that amount of
time.

Then there are the DEs who won't do the test in actual. That is just
nuts.