nigel
If you saw half of what I see as an examiner I have a duty of care to try and improve how people operate their machines. Now for an examiner to make a novice pilot do a vertical take off to 100 ft is well I will leave it to you !!!!!!
Butters please do me a favour and go read the height velocity curve, when I first started it was called the dead man's curve for good reason. Yes lots of us operate in it , I do all the time doing VR work. But it i is to be avoided, you appear to have a very cavalier attitude to flying. Please could you go back to your examiner do a 100 ft vertical and get him to show you what to do if the donk stops, you have a mag failure, leading plugs, oiling plugs and all the other things that got wrong with the sh1t Lycoming engine ( and yes I fly them in a 300 ) Please please go to 100 ft and shut the throttle on him and watch his face for the couple of seconds you have before you are taken away in a 7 ft long wooden box