I gave four practical tests this week and disapproved one. The…

Wendell Pike · Pilot at Pike Aviation Services · Tulsa, OK

I gave four practical tests this week and disapproved one. The applicant flew well. What ended it was that he could not tell me why he had picked his alternate; he had picked it because the software did. Know your own reasoning. I cannot certificate a decision you did not make.

3 comments

Tia Brooks

Sending this to every instructor on my staff tonight. We have gotten lazy about making students defend the plan out loud.

Jesse Lin

My instrument ride is in a few days and this is the question I am most afraid of. Probably deserve to be.

Wendell Pike

You were not alone in that. It is the only question on the test with no correct answer, only an honest one.