Dallas wrote:
I've been greatly amused by examiner trick stories lately, like Dudley's
story of an examiner bringing in his child to have the CFI candidate teach
him lift. Or the one where the examiner failed the flaps and asked the
student to find the ground frequency of the airport at the same time to see
the reaction.

What other favorite examiner tricks are out there?

Not really an examiner trick. I was on my final
lesson for my Practical signoff. We were heading
home and the instructor did the obligatory "your
engine just failed" drill.

I did the glide setup, simulated restart, secure
and radio call, estimated and set up a pattern
leaving me a little high and was feeling a little
proud of myself.

The instructor looked at the field and said "I
don't think you can make it".

I looked again, decided again that I might be a
little high, if anything and told him I was pretty
sure I could make it.

He said, "no, I don't think you can make it"

I said, "I'm sure I can make it"

He said, "you can't make it"

I said, "yes I can"

He said, "ok, do it."

I turned to final, made a nice approach and about
20' above the deck he ended the drill.

I said, "you knew I could make it" He said
yeah, but if you ever have a planeload of
people and the engine stops, they will be
yelling and crying that "you're not going to
make it, we're all going to die". I wanted
to see what you'd do.