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I never directly insulted your flying ability, as you did mine. I am sure you are a very fine instructor and pilot with the ratings you hold....I would have got to find out personally had I accepted the position Oxford offered me recently.
Seriously though, what is going on up there for you to think that any flight test is easy? I know Mr Davidson personally, and don't think he's the sort of guy who gives licences away. The FAA commercial checkride is certainly not easy either, but I'm a bit tired of the pissing contest, so will conclude that both have their good points and bad points.
My main job at the moment is training FAA MEI candidates, and I'm fully qualified under both systems, so I'm pretty sure I could indeed execute a reasonable 8's on pylon, or lazy 8 (although why I would want to commercially is still unknown to me).
All you have really achieved through your posts is concern me deeply about the quality of JAA training and testing in Phoenix.
FAA DPE standardisation is an ongoing issue, there does seem to a vast disparity in the quality of output, I can only say it as I see it.
By the way, I totally agree with you about flying with a 250 hour superpilot in the right hand seat......that is a good point - in my opinion any carrier from any system that operates in this fashion is basically operating a single pilot operation.
Anyway, y'all be safe!