Sounds like a big winge to me! What is your axe to grind Mr swawkvfr? Has flying the 'cube' around Phoenix, back into Goodyear got a little easy?
Once again your post contains no facts. DPE's undergo yearly renewals, and some of them are very good examiners, but where are the commercial considerations? Where is the airmanship? Sad fact is that most of my student pilots could fly a profile to FAA commercial PTS standards - and that's all it is, a bunch of flying standards! No wonder this certificate is not accepted in most parts of the world.
Common weak points I have noted during FAA - JAA conversions include:
Unable to naviagate by any other techninqe but feature crawling. Unable to plan an airbourne diversion.
Unable to fly by visual reference to the natural horizon, poor lookout, poor airmanship (aeronautical decision making).
Unable to execute a simulated forced landing, using a safe and valid fundamental techinque.
Unable to fully stall an aeroplane, or even describe or explain the symptoms of a fully developed stall. Poor recovery technique.
Very poor full panel instrument scan, very poor limited panel instrument scan, and inability to monitor aircraft systems, and/or position during IMC flight.
Poor cockpit organisation.
Zero commercial passenger considerations.
I could go on...
