Congrats OinkOink! So much fun stuff to look forward to now, you'll have forgotten all about your bouncy landings soon!
As for the R/T test, I found it very easy. I was fortunate to have an examiner who told me exactly what to expect before I started - don't know if they all do that tho'.
The trick is to take it slowly. (I thought I was taking it slowly, but the examiner told me afterwards that I was the fastest person he's ever examined except for qualified ATCOs, so there was obviously plenty of room to slow down more!) Try to visualise the situation before you open your mouth or press the button.
Also, don't worry if you mess up a bit. It's not at all realistic, and the examiner knows that it's not realistic and will allow for that.
In mine, I completely forgot to request something - I think it may have been a heading change. After a couple of minutes silence, the examiner realised that I wasn't going to request this heading change, and said "G-XXXX, would you like to request to head towards BlobField (or wherever)?" Oops! "Affirm, G-XXXX." He didn't seem to mind. I asked him about it afterwards, and he said that obviously I would have remembered in real life, because I'd have known that I was going the wrong way - it was clearly a problem with the unrealistic situation, and not that I didn't know how to do the R/T. Very sensible.
Anyway, good luck, although you should fly through it (pun intended!)
PIC, try not to get stressed, I'm sure you'll do fine. If you can, have a chat with the examiner - they're all different, and he'll be able to tell you what he's looking for.
My instructor taught me to do steep descending turns throttled fully back. When I met my examiner the week before my exam he went through the whole test, explaining what he wanted to see for each exercise. Got to steep descending turns, and he said he didn't understand why everyone did these with no power, that I should use a bit of power and make sure I keep the ROD below 1000'/min!
As for land-aways: you can ask the examiner to do the test in two parts: do the nav part first, then land, and then do the airwork part. If you do that, you may get a land-away at the end of the nav part. That's what I did (and screwed up a x-wind landing in the process!)
But as far as I know you won't get a land-away if you do it all in one go - maybe there's an examiner here who knows for sure??? Good luck, and let us know how it went!
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