Originally Posted by
Wink
this is quite the stretch to blame an examiner's negligence on the applicant, particularly with PPL candidates who have never even taken a checkride before. For nonexistent exams, sure, but what exactly do you think an applicant is supposed to do when they get an "easy" checkride? Where even is the bar for that? Nobody would ever tell a DPE to examine them again because that checkride was too easy. It isn't the applicant's job to determine how "easy" or "hard" an exam should be; that's the examiner's responsibility. Your claim assumes all of Puehler's applicants went to him because of his reputation, which, I find very hard to believe.
I acknowledged part of what you say in a later post:
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let’s make sure you are doing it right’ operation or some checked student pilot/upgrade pilot turns the DPE in if s/he even knows what is/is not a valid check.”
But the ACS is drilled into an applicants head.
if you know there is air work to be done on the checkride, because your CFI has been preparing you for let’s say steep turns or stalls and then you do neither, wouldn’t you maybe make mention of it to your CFI afterwards?