Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
Ya know, I really thought about that. I was resigned to defeat, after such a brutal blow in the oral. I even told the guy that I didn't expect that he would pass me on the sim after the performance on the oral.
But, I agree. It should be company policy that the examiner is changed, not necessarily because he can't impartial (heck, there's no pressure on him... just another day at the office), but it adds pressure to an already amped up experience.
Not signing the trainee off for a retake is in SP-315 as a strike, so they did follow their policy. The policy, by the way, that is approved by SAPA, and that by my guess, at least half the SAPA reps would still support.
I will offer one super chicken sh*t response when I was told I wouldn't be given another oral or sim check ride. He actually said that the FAA would want to be there since it was a retake, and suggested somehow that was a problem for SkW, or him personally, or the man on the moon. .
I'm surprised that you were sent on to the sim after the unsat oral. At Mesa, you must satisfactorily pass the oral before you are allowed to attempt the checkride.
The number of attempts at the oral are not unlimited. I think a 3 strike policy is employed. However, if you need 3 tries to pass the oral, then you have to "win out" through the remainder of training. That is, no re-trains, and the checkride must be clean the 1st time through.
I don't know why the FAA would HAVE to be at a re-training event, or even a re-checkride. My sim partner required several re-trains and no FAA rep was ever present. I don't know about a re-checkride, but I would suspect the examiner would have to be different.