Great story...
Interestingly, one of the locals on my field just took and flunked his
IFR check ride last week... He says the the oral and the ride actually
went like clockwork... He felt confident and he felt that it showed in
his handling of the airplane...
The examiner told him to finish the ILS they were currently shooting,
by declaring the miss at the DH and fly the missed approach to the
holding fix called out on the plate, fly it once around then depart to
a VOR-A approach back to our field and that would be it... So thinking
ahead, as soon as he hits the DH for the ILS approach he calls the
missed approach and begins flying the profile, he quickly dials in the
VOR-A approach on the Garmin 430 NAV-COM and presets the OBS for the
proper radial (125) to be set up for the VOR-A as soon as he departs
the hold, then he uses the 430 moving map to navigate to the holding
fix... As soon as he turned inbound to the holding fix the examiner
told him he was busted for failing to use the OBS.. Period... End of
discussion... Ride over...
So, today he was to refly the missed approach to the holding fix and
then fly the VOR-A to complete the ride... I don't see his choice of
using the map as a disqualifying error... I would have told the
candidate that he needed to depart the hold, reacquire it using the OBS
and demonstrate proficiency... The DE saw it otherwise...

denny