In article ,
gatt wrote:

When the weather is bad and the examiner gives you the option of delaying
for better weather, don't say "Well, if I can't pass my checkride in IMC I'm
probably not qualified for the IFR rating."

I like that sentiment a lot better than some of the others I've seen
recently. If you can't fly in IMC right after 40 hours of training you
are going to be in trouble when you are barely managing to keep current!

instruction I got from Portland Approach was to hold over Battleground...at
6,000. [...]

Later, holding in IMC, was told it was 2003Z and to expect my next clearance
at 2030Z.


Hey, if you could hold for 20 minutes over BTG in actual without busting
PTS standards you deserve the rating just for that. Every hold I've flown
there involved large pitch changes on each leg to adjust to the gorge winds
blowing over the hill the VOR is on.

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.

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Ben Jackson

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