Then we'll continue to disagree on this part because "Fed would not have been very happy with the Check Airman." does not imply pass / fail to me. It means that the Fed would have some debriefing points for the check airman if he did something wrong.

I'm not sure - PerfInit - could the ChkA have lost his qualifications if he did/missed something egregious?

My last recurrent checkride had a Fed along for the ride giving the new ChkA a look. I assumed that if he had mesed up big time that he would not have been one of our new ChkAs.

Thanks for admitting that misread.