Originally Posted by
EMBFlyer
Njd,
I'm sorry you busted. That sucks, but that checkride was bulls*&t! That was extremely unrealistic in the a training environment at most airlines and your APD sounded like a dick!
Unable a straight-out single-engine? Unless you have a special -7 procedure to clear terrain or an obstacle, if you've declared an emergency, you tell them what you're doing!
I know you're new to the 121 world, but there were several occasions where I would have stopped the ride and requested a new APD (I say this from experience and what I should have done on my MV when I went through training on the Airbus).
The entire checkride process is broken and even the FAA knows it on some level. Why do you think they're approving AQP initial? Even the APDs present for my recheck admitted the checkride is nothing more than a snapshot of a pilot's skills at that moment and does not reflect the true ability of the pilot or the likelihood they will be safe out on the line.
The guy who was paired with me for the initial checkride sim block did his checkride after me and then the APD debriefed us both in the same room. You should have heard what he said to the other guy. He told him he was basically all over the sky and flirting with busting ATP tolerances on several approaches. He also pointed out how he flirted several times with a bank angle warning on the V1 cut (during the PIO that often occurs if the pilot doesn't really know the trick to flying the cut) but as he never heard "bank angle" it was acceptable.
On the other hand he complimented me on my flying, particularly the hand flown approaches, single engine ILS etc. which was all to +/- 2K all the way down and at most a needle width tolerance laterally and half dot max on GS. In other words, exactly how I fly approaches with every other airplane since I got my ATP 10 years ago.
Yet he got the job and I did not. Oh well. On to other things, including the the interview I have scheduled at another carrier next week.