Originally Posted by
tinman1
I've heard some pretty bad things about ATP but at least they use a DPE for their checkrides. At Riddle most of the checkrides are done in house with an examiner who is an employee of the school. It's in their best interest for the applicant to pass on the first attempt. Someone could fail every in house "checkride" but still have a clean record in the eyes of the FAA and in airline interviews. Not saying their students are crap but it wouldn't be overwhelming difficult for one to slip through the cracks.
Actually at the aviation university I graduated from looked at doing checkrides in house. The problem they had with it was if you do that then you have to have a certain failure percentage for the FAA to continue to allow it. But like most aviation schools we had a few DPEs that we used constantly because they were fair and we knew what to expect beforehand.