Originally Posted by
Pipes
Dude, lighten up. This is the least of your worries. Just because u fail a checkride or 2 or 5 or 10 doesn't mean you cant get a job and it doesn't mean ur a bad pilot. All it means is you had a bad day. You have been listening too much to the BS. Anyone who has not hooked a check at sometime in their life is lying. You can hook every check in the military and still get a 2nd chance. Have a beer and relax!
Except now thanks to the BUF crash, the gubmnet wants to hang an albatross around your neck if you DO fail a check ride. You and I know a bad day can easily lead to a busted checkride, and that's all it is: a bad day. The boys on the hill needed a scapegoat to appease the masses with torches and pitchforks, so now they think if you bust a checkride, you're a bad pilot. Now if you bust several, that may be true, but everyone has a bad day. It would be like reminding a senator every time they had a career defining moment "Hey, remember that one time you flubbed your speech on national television? Man, you suck as a public official."
I've heard that rumor as well, but I've never had any problems with check airmen during events here. Doesn't make sense considering all the other cases where Pinnacle is quick to give someone the boot rather than keeping them here.
Originally Posted by Red Forman
I'm sure that rumor was started by someone who busted a ride and needed a reason to blame someone else for their mistakes.
Could always just spill coffee on them. Problem solved?