wrote in message
oups.com...

Do you have any "insufficient" checkrides you'd be brave enough to
share?

Yeah. During my commercial I was doing pylon eights and the examiner goes
"Wait...that's not right. Try this..." I'd done it countless times, just
not his way. Made a bunch of minor mistakes that he attributed to
"checkriditis" which would seem to me to suggest stress
management/performance issues. I dunno if I'd have passed me...

I thought I failed my instrument checkride for a full hour after we were on
the ground; PDX put me in a 20-minute hold in IMC, and the examiner (Wiley)
had a GPS. Man, that was ugly but fortunately it was in absolute IMC and
the saving grace was that I had discovered the problem on my own and
corrected for it in what appears to have been a satisfactory manner.

-c