Originally Posted by
Boxer94
Hey guys just looking for some input , I just hit 1500 hours and sent a couple apps out to the regionals and all of them called back to interview . Long story short , I was sitting at two busts prior to my Cfi ride . Prepared as much as I could and decided to go to the Fsdo in my district . I had the option of going to another Fsdo since a friend went there after busting at my local Fsdo a couple times . So I decided to go to my Fsdo and my luck it was observed and they bust me twice . Can't Blaim anyone but myself . I went to the other Fsdo and passed with flying colors . To this day 3 years later I regret every day not going to that Fsdo in the first place . Now I am in fear that I lost my career before it even started . Every single day and night I think about it and regret my decision regarding my CFI ride to the point I barley sleep and lost friends and my girlfriend because they all say I turned into a different person ever since . I feel like I'm a criminal and lost all hope even tho I have passed two rides since .
If you learn and know the standards, you have nothing to fear and you will be able to make your case if someone tries to bust you for something OTHER than meeting the standards. This is one of the MOST important things that you need to learn as a pilot moving forward, because you have to understand what level you are training to, not what some instructor or some designated examiner told you or passed you for, but whether you are actually meeting the standards in the testing material. If you know you met the standards and you were failed for a non-legitimate reason, you can bring down all kinds of hell on the examiner if you take this up as many levels as you need to get it resolved.
I'll be honest, I really didn't know and understand the standards very well as a private pilot. As I took more checkrides and started studying the PTS, I started understanding it more. It wasn't until the flight instructor level and really diving into it that I really understood it all, but if you can expedite that in yourself and your students, it will benefit all.