fine...the results

[saracelica]

Not sure how many people on here are interested but I failed the checkride today.

Passed the oral portion "above averagely" which was what I was worried about the most.

When it came to flying I just sucked. I put so much emphasis on passing the oral I FUBAR'd the flying part. DAMN!

The worst part is that an IFR pilot wasn't even sure he wanted to go flying and I mentioned it to the DPE and he said we'd be in the pattern to start with anyway so we'd be close if we had to land. It was really gusty!

For all those student pilots out there - the trim wheel is your friend. Learn to use it early and often it'll help alot.

No sympathy notes or "apologies" needed. Just wanted to let y'all know the deal-io.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Alright, nobody else is saying it, so I will be the one again.

In my opinion, and my opinion counts, you blew it by making that post public. You should have sent those comments privately.

Here's why I say you blew it: statistically almost 1/4 of those who take the practical exam fail it on the first try (I posted that fact in another thread, several weeks back, yet no one picked up on those grim statistics.) Yet most who fail never make that fact known (for reasons that should now be obvious.) But little is to be learned from posts that say "Hey everybody, I passed my check ride!"

Why do 23% of applicants fail a test whose scheduling they have 100% control over? The only way to know that is via data - and publicly beating up on the data sources doesn't bode well for more data.

Lastly, to call the expenditure of 150 hours of training a lack of commitment is so self-referentially contradictory that I don't know how you managed it with a straight face. Maybe the word "commitment" means something different to you?