Originally Posted by
silly4
I failed my first recurrent AQP KV a few years ago. I had no previous failures and have since upgraded with no issues either having gone through a few recurrents since. Is the KV failure considered a checkride failure? And will this be a huge red flag going forward from everyone's experience?
Yes, it's a failure.
Frankly it's also more of a problem than an MV, LOE, or PC failure because unlike sim, there's no limit on how much you can prepare for a KV, and there's no variability for instructor, sim buddy, etc. I would take full responsibility, tell them what you learned, and how you've changed. You need to blame yourself for that one because there's no one else to blame and no extenuating circumstances. You either studied or you did not.
If it's your only failure, you'll get over it, but others with no failures will probably get called before you.