Tricky examiners

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Some Other Guy wrote in
:

dVaridel wrote:

One local Test Officer has a reputation of asking PPL candidates to
"keep going, lets see if make it" during the simulated forced landing
to a paddock in the exam. Drop below 500 AGL and BAM ...... test
over.

As the PIC you aren't allowed below 500' (unless taking off, landing,
training for a rating or crashing), and you have shown poor judgement
in allowing your "passenger" to goad you into low flying.

Tough but real worldish.
Where I live, when you take an automobile driving test you are told
clearly at the start "the examiner *will never ask you to do anything
illegal*".

Ine of mine did. i was going too slow to suit him.

He told me I failed, told me i needed more practice. I told him I'd been
driving for years on several continents. He asked me why I was n several
continents and I told him I flew a 737 for a living.
he gave me the licence.
Is this not the case for a PPL exam? If so, I'm astounded.
That could lead to some very dangerous situations.

Hmmm, better not get into those stories!


Bertie
I have a great one.
Got stopped with my wife on I95 one night. I had just had my new
Corvette tuned and was checking it out.
The Police pulled me over and two cops came walking up to the driver's
window. They looked like Abbott and Costello. One was real tall and the
other one was built like a fire plug. The tall one I guess was trying to
be a wise guy with the Vette as I was well over a hundred when I went
through the radar gun. He leaned down and looked in the window and
calmly asked to see my pilot's license.
You can guess what happened next. The fire plug guy broke up laughing,
slapped the tall one on the back and said something about using that one
once too often.
Anyway...I won't tell you what it cost me, but FWIW, if a cop ever asks
to see your pilot's license, for God sake, don't show it to him :-)))

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Dudley Henriques