CFI practical test - aircraft required

There was a flight instructor located at Grand Lake,
Oklahoma many years ago. He owned a CE 172 seaplane and was
busy teaching. He also was a DE and gave many private and
commercial flight tests. When the examiners in Tulsa were
all busy, he would often get the over-flow. He told me
about the private pilot applicant was scheduled to arrive at
the airport on Grand Lake at 11:00. He was at the airport
at 10:00 and waiting to the student to arrive when he saw an
airplane fly over the airport at pattern altitude. The
airplane continued on and circled back and flew away to the
west, then a few minutes later it returned from another
direction. This search pattern around the airport continued
for over an hour, the airplane crossing overhead every 10 or
15 minutes.

Finally the student landed. The student was handed a pink
slip because he had failed pilotage and navigation.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
| BTW: One common practice with some FSDOs is to ask the
applicant the
| inspection requirements for an ELT as you walk in the
door. If you get
| it wrong they dismiss you off the bat. I think they think
its good to
| fail you right off teh bat to show they are serious (and
that they are
| oh, so important people ).
|
| -Robert
|