Mariner 9,
In the CAA link you posted earlier: Guidence of Applicants taking the CPL Skills Test (Aeroplanes).
You suggest we should read it, can I suggest you do so too?
There is a line:
3.5.3 The Examiner may stop the test at any stage if he considers that the applicant's demonstration of skill and/or knowledge requires a complete retest.
So, why are you so down on the poster about expressing he'd like to have been given a chance to halt the test and save some money. Especially as the examiner had clearly made his mind up going into section 2 with the altimeter setting still incorrect, that this was going to be a fail.
It is in the document you refer us to!
Please bear in mind, we have to pay an awful lot of money out of our own pockets to enable us to enter a career with no guarantee of getting a job.
Most examiners have had their career and are examining in their twilight flying years. Chances are they are ex RAF and have had their flying paid for, which isn't an option even if we wanted to sign up, ask all the lads who had their courses cancelled on them during the Strategic Defense Review. Even if they aren't ex military, they would have come up in a different era and have no idea of the sacrifices we have to go through with soaring fuel costs, etc.
Last edited by Muddy Boots; 22nd March 2012 at 06:07.