Hey All,
I'm a commerical pilot with ME rating and I went for my single engine addon today with a total of around 230 hours. I failed my flight portion of the checkride in the area of Landings, T/O's, and Go Arounds. It was by far the worst flight I have ever been on and totally hit me by surprise. Anyways, here is the story...
After my multi-engine course, I was given a new instructor at a very well known flight university. He told me I was his first ever commerical student and that he hasn't done the maneuvers himself in 2 years or so. Anyways, He taught me all the maneuvers and everything and after about 9 lessons, he signed me off. Anyways, fast forward to today and I went in for my checkride. My oral was a piece of cake and then came the flight. The examiner had me start off by doing a Short-field T/O and we went South to do maneuvers. Anyways, Out of all the maneuvers I did which were exactly the way my instructor taught me, he said chandelles, eights on pylons, lazy eights, and steep spirals were wrong. He pointed out various things that I had never been taught to do like clearing the engine on every 360 degree turn on the spiral and using full power instead of 65% on chandelle's. Anyways, he was very irritated with me and very rude and talked to me like a little kid the entire time... He had told me after Idid my lazy eights hat I had failed and then on our way back to the airport, he told me to turn South and showed me how he does it and then I did it.. and then we went back to do landings at the airport. By this point I was completely miserable because everything I had been taught was wrong... anyways, my soft field landing was not soft and he failed me for that without letting me do another one... The whole flight took it's toll on me and now I have two failed checkrides on record and I am depressed as hell. After I failed my instrustment, I vowed never to do this again, but how can I not when I am doing everything wrong? What do you guys suggest I do? Can I do anything in this situation or do I just have to take it and move on? Thanks guys.