Originally Posted by
Cruz5350
In my case I had a good friend take the same check ride with the same examiner only to also be failed twice. AFAIK he hasn't passed anybody on their CFI rides with him. so that's two checkrides a person for the last few years. At some point who's fault is it?
The general aviation playing field is certainly not level by any means, which is why I have a hard spot with employers holding 1-2 busts against someone.
But if the examiner has that bad of a reputation, I would start to doubt the judgement of someone who doesn't learn from the mistakes of others. specially if he keeps going back to the same guy.
We had a student who was morally opposed to paying $450 to a DPE when the feds would do it for free. After getting jerked around with scheduling for weeks, he had a 6-hour oral (commercial ASEL) followed by a pink slip for the PRE-FLIGHT. Then he went back to the same guy and pinked again, on the ground. This was a fed who had never in recorded history ever passed a student on any rating checkride...he obviously did that to discourage people from bothering him. That student was too stobborn for his own good.