Hi all,

I am curious about how bad my situation is for making it to the majors. I've recently had a Part 135 checkride letter of disapproval. I also have a checkride bust from my instrument checkride several years back.

I started flying overseas where I passed Private, Commercial, Multi, and Instrument all the first time. Zero failures on my record from across the ocean. Unfortunately, that doesn't really help me here in the USA. Besides my logbook I have no record of my 100% pass rate.

I have held an SIC type for a turbojet for about five months and have not had a chance to use it since it was issued. Without any experience in the aircraft I went back to training to upgrade to PIC. The entire three-hour oral went very well and the entire checkride went very well also. In the last few minutes while I was on final approach my right seater suggested I use airbrake to slow down for a no-flap landing. I was only about 4 knots fast. We had both forgotten for one moment that the flap was stuck on the first notch. Not flap up. Using airbrake with any flap is a limitation bust for this particular airframe. The examiner failed me right on the spot and told me he was very disappointed because absolutely everything else went so well.

It was a very frustrating way to fail a checkride and I'm having a very difficult time with it. I've worked so hard for so long with the goal to make it to a major airline. I still have my ATP checkride ahead of me and know I can't have another fail.

With my overseas checkrides combined with my FAA checkrides I have two fails out of ten checkrides. But if one were to look only at my record here in the USA it would appear I have two fails out of 4 checkrides (assuming an SIC type check is not an official checkride).

How dire is my situation? Thanks for any info or advice in advance.