Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes

Yeah, 19 days. That's exactly what's wrong with flight training these days There's no way to pack in the experience of weather decisions, airport variability, radio communications, and everything else, into that short of a time period. Sorry, I call BS to that being an adequate training experience. 1.3 private checkride? 19 days? Not quality training and experience. I've given enough checkrides and evaluated enough people giving checkrides to know what is "normal", "exceptional" and "not possible".