A Lieberma writes:

Aren't you beeing a little hard on the person???

Better to delay the checkride than to die while trying unsuccessfully
to fly on instruments alone.

Quite a bit different experience knowing he was the only one to bring
himself back to terra firma AND nobody to rescue him sitting in the right
seat....

Having someone in the right seat sounds rather like being in a sim.

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