Originally Posted by
CaptAnzuelo
Good!
I wouldn't sweat it about the FAA observer. I've done +5 checkrides in the last 5 years with a fed(sometimes two) observing. In the pipers and cessnas you know they are sitting 2 feet behind you, but in these large simulators they are sitting way back in the shadows so you forget they are even there.
When the fed watches the fed that watches the check airman:
"Yo dawg, I hear you like check rides."