As you've now mentioned it was a Falcon can I ask if the instructor ( you didn't say examiner) was an active, working pilot? Experienced former one? Someone from your own company?
Hello Rob,
The instructor is/was not actively flying the type, nor did he have any significant line experience on the type.
How a gov't-approved, third party trainer comes to offer the services of such a person while demanding those eye-watering payment$ from their clients is probably best left to a separate thread.
In the interest of providing additional context for those unfamiliar with the little tri-motored Falcon, the airplane isn't exactly an MD-11... it's quite comfortable maneuvering at the weight in question in a clean-wing configuration at 170 knots... in fact the S/F-1
max speed is 200 kts.
I'm trying to learn more about how/why SOP's and operating guidance are developed as well as differences between certification climb profiles vs. SID/obstacle clearance profiles vs. NADP's etc.
Z