IFR checkride in IMC: PASSED!

Well, Santa Claus came early this year. :-)

Congratulations.

Congratulations! Glad to hear that worked out.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL, IA Student

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

"gatt" wrote:
> Went home and discovered my wife had
> poured a shot of whiskey for me.

Some guys have all the luck.
--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

"Ben Jackson" <ben@ben.com> wrote in message news:qKAad.242855$

> Interesting that your examiner went up in actual. The guy my CFII likes
> now doesn't stay instrument current, so in actual he requires that the
> CFII ride along for the practical test.

Wow! That was the exact situation: He rode in back and my CFII took the
right seat. There were a couple of times when I heard her exhale after I
did something well, and more than a couple where I fully expected a quick
elbow to the ribs. :>

Maybe it's the same examiner. His name is Wiley. It's a hard ride home
when you sure you've failed and your CFII is sitting silently in the seat
next to you. The oral exam, by the way, covered almost nothing out of the
ASA Oral Prep guide which I've been studying for two ' weeks!

-c

Congratulations!

David Brooks wrote:
>>First attempt at the checkride. Icing forecast at 6,000. Examiner said
>>"No problem. We probably won't go much above four." The FIRST
>>instruction I got from Portland Approach was to hold over Battleground...at
>>6,000. Lots of flying around in turbulence trying to maintain heading and
>>altitude, listening to PDX warn people about the weather.

> I had a similar experience approaching my hold. The examiner, bless him,
> murmured "outside temp is 34" and I told ATC "Unable, icing". They
> immediately gave me a lower altitude.
> I think I had the same experience as you: being able to keep my cool with
> layers, icing, and an unexpectedly OTS VOR, helped compensate for, umm,
> pushing the envelope of the PTS.

There you go! Never let ATC put you somewhere you don't want to be.
Sometimes you have to assert yourself, but know the rules and protect
yourself at all times.

My understanding is, if you do something and he doesn't tell you you
busted it, then you passed it. You have to be told when you bust
something, then the option is yours if you want to continue to check
other things off or not.

gatt wrote:
> So I had already started
guessing which parts I passed and which I busted
>
> -gatt
> Portland, OR
>
>

Gatt,

> It's a hard ride home
> when you sure you've failed
>

Again, that wouldn't have been necessary.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

I did my instrument checkride with a real FAA guy I'd never met with broken
to overcast at 3,000-4,000 so we were in the clouds a lot.

"BTIZ" <btiznospm2@cox.nospm.net> wrote in message
news:Ybzad.24871$_a3.7861@fed1read05...
> not many examiners I know of would go up in real IFR for a checkride with
> someone they did not know... good job..
> BT

How did you do the airwork (steep turns, stalls, slow flight, etc)?

-Robert

"Bushy" <please@reply.to.group> wrote in message

> Your wife doesn't have a sister does she?

I WISH!

(uh...I didn't say that.)

:>

-c