Dallas wrote:
While I was inside, the examiner reattached the tail tiedown.

That's completely rotten and unfair! That would never happen in real life
and pretty much serves no purpose during a checkride, except to un-nerve
the poor student who is already in a pretty frazzled state already.

I call foul!


Not in the least bit unfair. The examiner was attempting to emphasize the
point that you need to look over the aicraft again, if it has been out of
your sight since you completed the preflight. The "embarrasing incident" I
referred to had to do with me loudly revving up an airplane, trying to get it
to move (and drawing quite a crowd). The reason it didn't move was because
someone had put the chocks back in place after I'd done the preflight. I'd
gone into the office to ask my CFI a final question, and some helpful soul
came along and noticed that the plane was not chocked.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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