Originally Posted by
SSlow
Definitely go with the DPE on this one even though you'll have to pony up the $$$. Stay away from the FAA as it could very well take a month or two to get on their schedule and then who knows what will happen after that.
This.
I've know FSDO feds who hated doing GA checkrides so much that they intentionally cultivated a reputation for brutality... very rare for any applicants to make it to the flight test. If they somehow passed the oral, they would fail something on the pre-flight walkaround (ex. loose rivet).
Had a couple students burned because they wanted to save the $. After I TOLD them what was going to happen
