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I make full use of all the time for the oral, I have been known to go for 4 hours on more than one occasion mainly because I do not want to rush the process
Four hours for an oral!!! You must get paid by the hour? If you cannot tell how good a candidate is in under an hour of intelligent and reasonable questions then time you went into retirement. No candidate should ever have to put up with that sort of bulls...
I agree four hours is a bit over the top, but my oral for my commercial took 2,5 hrs too, and we basically talked non-stop.
The thing I like about the FAA system is that they use common sense to a good extent. Fly the airplane, get to know it, and don't think about calling V1 and VR in a fricking C-150 on a 8,000ft runway (I've had students here tell me they had to calculate their rotation speed before a lesson)....... I mean, are you shi****g me??