Somebody who has passed 20 checkrides and busted one along the way probably had a bad day.


Somebody who takes multiple attempts to pass one checkride probably just got lucky the day he passed.

1-2 checkride busts can happen to almost anyone...but at some point more failures than that really starts to become difficult to rationalize. Maybe the person has aptitude and just took a while to dial in his attitude...but most folks get their attitude fixed after the first failure.

Eventually you start to suspect a lack of aptitude, which cannot be fixed or a more serious attitude problem.

Is eagle too picky? Probably so, although I heard they loosened up a little recently.

But should Renslow have been a 121 CA? I don't think so. You have to draw the line somewhere...repetitive checkrides until you get lucky makes no sense.