Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
Back in the early 90's there certainly was a quota, when initial-CFI candidates had to do their practical with an inspector, and the failure rate was mandated at a high rate. Take the ride close to the end of the month when inspectors had to catch up and the failure rate went up substantially.
Do you have documentation of this? How do you know there was a quota?
Here's an excerpt for practical tests from the old 8700.1 guidance, I see nothing there about quotas, but I just glanced over it. Perhaps you can find something?
http://fsims.faa.gov/WDocs/8700.1%20...2/2_001_00.htm