I totally agree with most of what has been said here.
FYI, JAA/Licensing Division has just finalized a document called 'Flight Examiners Manual'. It's meant to be guidelines to the national CAA's as how their examiners should do the SkillTests. It also contains lots of guidance as to test tolerances, maneuvers. etc etc. It's a huge pile of paper but can still be worth a glance.
It should be
here at the JAA website .
Enjoy!
cheers,
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