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I'm simply saying there's no meaningful benefit to investing time and effort into a pointless exercise. It's just my opinion.

While there is merit to the concept that "more is always better," a restricted ATP is, for the most part, employed when a new hire is short of the minimums for ATP but 1500 hours is imminently in sight. I would agree that there is little value in this intermediate step if you're not aiming at...

Tough to watch - there are so many repeated instances like this with this person. One of these will surely do him in eventually. This pilot simply exhibits poor airmanship and is easily distracted. In my opinion he adds many unnecessary steps into his flying including but not limited to the...

A Notice of Disapproval and a Letter of Discontinuance are indeed two very different things. However, the 60 day limit applies to both in terms of time limit to complete the practical test once either one of these documents are issued to the applicant. Among other things, the retest requires a...

I have asked applicants to remove an iPad suction-mounted to the left corner of the windscreen on a C-172. It blocks too much visibility for both me and the applicant. I'm surprised flight instructors would allow this in training. I realize not all mounts are created equal, but I'm...

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I would say, "welcome to aviation." Getting knocked down a few times is normal for all of us in this business. He should take whatever learning opportunity may come from the experience (limited though it may be at this stage) and move on without thinking twice. Future is bright! Welcome!

53 years old isn't too old. The goal might look a little different with an 8-10 years professional career timeline but there are still flying opportunities past age 65 if you look for them (and actually want to keep flying at that age.) If I had to go by my experience advising folks in this...

Correct. It's not really possible to accommodate the skill elements (ref: IR.VI.A.S3, IR.VI.A.S12) of Task VI.A. (Nonprecision Approach) utilizing a PAR or ASR approach... nor is it an appropriate selection per Appendix 7's guidance to use "navigation aids". Further, the approach selections...

That is correct. I'm not employed by, nor do I speak for the FAA. My voice carries no more weight than anyone else's. As a designee, I represent the Administrator within an extremely narrow scope, which is airman certification. As I interpret the guidance I'm given (and it does occasionally...

An ASR approach will not suffice to meet the requirements of the ACS.

Let's introduce a possibly irritating level of precision into the question-answering process. I apologize in advance. "Can you pass an instrument rating checkride without VOR/ILS capability (only 2 G5s and a GNC355.)" This is a question with issues. As stated, it can't simply be answered with...

Interesting conversation. @luvflyin yes, I'm still here! Here's what we're talking about, from 14 CFR 61.65(d). We need to look at both (ii) and (ii)(a). "(ii) Instrument flight training on cross country flight procedures, including one cross country flight in an airplane with an authorized...

It’s a one word answer, two letters… capitalized…

At the risk of sounding argumentative, I'd respectfully disagree. I've been flying in and out of TEB for my whole career, and it has always been bit of a unique challenge, both coming in and getting back out. Jets or little airplanes. I've done both many times. Whether it's CPDLC reroutes...

Has been discussed prior here on POA... the most realistic failure mode, for me and most other DPEs from what I've gathered, is to create a reversionary mode scenario. In the case of dual G5s, one goes down, composite display on the remaining G5. Key thing to remember is the task itself. An...

To answer your question directly - very few. To answer the question which seems to be implied, i.e. what is the point of doing this for a private pilot pilot practical test, I have a perspective here which might be interesting to some (including you... ) An electronic nav log is perfectly...

I like the way RussR summed it up. Training and checking will have different objectives and methodologies. As an instructor I'd certainly be drilling down pretty deeply into the given panel configuration with the client, understanding the system architecture and how failures will present...

Hmm. I'm not sure you're understanding their financial position correctly. Regardless - we agree to disagree. In my opinion they are operating appropriately for an organization of their size with those types of objectives.