"David B. Cole" wrote in message
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one last practice session before the big day. My instructor and a few
other people that worked at the school told me that the DE, who is
also the manager of the flight school and FBO, said something along
the lines that I was one of the best prepared applicants he had ever
seen. That was great to hear and I hoped it would have a halo effect
today.

....

Once established on the downwind and descended to pattern altitude, he
gave me a heading and an altitude to fly back to Caldwell. We flew
back to Caldwell partial panel with the DE giving me vectors and
descent instructions to simulate a no-gyro approach. He had me take
the hood off on final and 130' AGL and again I made another crappy

You flew with Rich Greene, right? It sounded like you finished up training
at CDW, and he's the only manager/DE I know of there. I flew with him last
July for my IR checkride... posted about it here as well. I'll say one thing
about him: if you pass his checkride, you KNOW you deserve the rating.

Congrats are definitely in order here! Now don't get like me and only fly
every three or four weeks... make it part of your routine (as I'm going to
try to do over the next few weeks), and keep the skills sharp!

--
Guy Elden Jr.