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1. How long is the temporary airman certificate good for? I said 90 days, answer 120 (I think a temp aircraft registration is 90) WRONG
2. If you lost the temp certificate, what do you need from the company? I said some kind of letter or copy of certificate. WRONG, illegal to copy temp certificate, need exemption 5585.
3. If you flew 8 hours, what is normal rest? I said 9. WRONG. It's 10, 'cuz the rule is less than OR EQUAL TO 8 hours equals 10. 9 hour rest is for LESS THAN 8 hours.
4. What does the F stand for in ALSF-2 and the R in MALSR? I had no frigging idea. WRONG (flashing and runway)
5. When you get to DH on the ILS, and see the approach lights, how low can you descend? Me, "100 AGL". Ok, you see the red terminating bar, how low? I said continue the descent (word for word out of the reg). He says no, it's 50 feet (basically the landing threshold crossing height) until you see the runway lights/markings (except centerline lights).
Not sure I still buy off on that. Surely, you can't land, but I've never seen any altitude restriction, nor is there a callout for that, or training on that.
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I didn't sleep that night at all; I went over every memory thing I could think of that he would ask in the sim (it would be the same examiner that just failed me on the sim). At 6am, sure enough, right off the bat, he asked how to check the parking brake light. I had no idea. I looked after the fact, and could not find any place in any of the manuals that tells you it's push to test. (by the way, it says right on the lens "push to test"... one of those things that familiarity with the plane would have helped).End Quote
Since when are we airmen required to memorize everything?? Certainly questions 1 and 2 were fair game as you would have gotten a temp certificate. Questions 1, 2, and 4, your correct answer should have been, "Just a moment, I'll look that up." followed by you pulling out the FAR/AIM, flipping to the page, and reading him the answer. No one is capable of memorizing EVERYTHING especially the minutiae: that is why we have printed manuals, FARs, OPS Spec, etc. Perhaps he was testing to see if you COULD find those things.
IMHO, #3 (rest requirements) is something that needs to be memorized: we deal with that every day. it is rediculas that 7:59:59 requires one hour less than 8:00:00, but that is how the law reads. ((If not memorized, tab page 121.471.))
#5 MUST be memorized: no time to look that up in the plane. If you don't "buy" (and based on what you quoted, you SHOULDN'T) what he said, then go to 91.175 (and any part of your ops spec aplicable) and look it up.
1, 2, 4, and 5 could get you violated (5 could ball up a plane).
As for the push-to-test question, not knowing could cause a delay or cancellation.
If you take this as butsing your chops, then I have come on too strongly. Sorry. I have sat on both sides of the table during a busted checkride, and know how it feels. But all those were valid questions.
Study hard, use your references, and GOOD LUCK NEXT TIME!!!