Some people are scum, but the apps are partially to blame.

"Have you ever failed a checkride?" Okay, if a 141 stagecheck is a checkride then...

"Have you ever been a check airmen?" Is a 141 stagecheck instructor a check airmen? Is there a difference between a check airman and a check airmen or is one just plural? Lawyers?

I'd say certain stagechecks count as checkrides and not others. Yet a stagecheck instructor is not a check airmen because check airmen and check instructor are defined in 121 and 141 respectively. A check instructor is an airman though, so maybe he is a check airmen. Really, I don't know. That's just my **** legal opinion. Is someone with a different legal opinion a liar? I knew a regional FO who was hired at Delta after scoring himself as a check airmen on airlineapps.com because he gave stagechecks at 141 school. But a clerk did read over it and ask him about it during the interview so he's in. He got the seniority number years before his buds because of, IMHO, his ignorance, Delta's error, and the way airlines score apps almost entirely on structured data with very limited human oversight.

When the applicant knows a human is reading the application he can simply write what he did and allow the human to judge. But when it's a computer and a checkbox, he's doing himself a huge disservice to put his app at the bottom of the stack when others game it better.

"List the schools you've attended." One day workshop at the local gliderport on thermalling? Sure! Check! One more line and one more point on the app. Might as well throw my recurrent classes in there too.