Originally Posted by JohnBurke

I don't think it's fair game at all.

The philosophy of busting is somewhat old school in that for the last decade or so, the FAA has pushed the approach of recognizing an error and correcting it; if one can recognize and correct, that's far more important than trying to bust someone for a two-knot excursion. The point of doing this is to recognize the real world and the need to be constantly correcting. We fly an approach not perfectly but by bracketing the glideslope and localizer up and down, left and right, constantly making small corrections back to where we want to be.

The check airman is there to see that you can fly the airplane. It's not a lottery, and it's not a fault finding mission. It's a flight. Two knots?

My question would be did you recognize it and correct? Far more important than a two knot excursion.