CPL flight test:
Gorgeous winter morning - nae cloud, excellent. Gets to the airport and two inches of snow fall - Ok not looking so hot now. Snow clearing equipment only sweeps the GA taxiway once - slush promptly re-freezes into a nice ice-rink in time for my power checks - aircraft sliding ever so gently along with feet wedged against brakes. Got away with it as examiner was busy whining about how cold he was.
Diverts to some miniscule hamlet in the backhole of beyond. Does the GH, not bad (steep turns nearly blew it for me - up and down like a bride's nightie) until recivery from UA's on partial panel - he did about 6 consectuive spiral dives to the left (made worse by me catching glimpses of the horizon flashing past the wee gap in the screens) By the time he said recover I thought I was inverted no matter what the instruments said.
Passed - and all done with a fantastic hangover from a steading the nerves drink the night before...
