DPE. The Feds I've ridden with were/are top of the line. My first Fed was
my original CFI in 1970. Big old cigar chomping ex-AAF with a remarkable
resemblance in all ways to Curtis LeMay. Did the usual maneuvers, then he
put me under the hood (with that g.d. cigar smoke swirling around me) and
gave me vectors. Then took the hood off and asked me to show him steep
turns to the left. Steep turn, steep turn, steep turn (nearly tossed
cookies with smoke) steep turn, stee...haven't we done enough? Two more,
steep turn, steep turn.

Got back and he told me I might make a pretty good instructor some day and
signed me off. I asked him what that steep turn stuff was and he told me
they were digging his swimming pool that day and he wanted to watch for a
while.

Jim

--
"If you think you can, or think you can't, you're right."
--Henry Ford

"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:11:13 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

I've only met one in my life. It was an asshole out of Marysville in the
Sacramento area who bounced me on a CFI renewal because I couldn't explain
to him how the nosewheel centering mechanism on a C-172 worked while I was
doing to-the-limits chandelles for him.

He said he had pretty well decided to pink me because I couldn't remember
from memory the tetraethyl lead limits in milligrams per gallon for 80,
100,
100LL, and 115. Like it makes a hell of a lot of difference.


Was he a FSDO employee or DPE?