Originally Posted by
Derfred
It would be pretty easy to design an oral exam to yield a high failure rate if that was the objective of the exercise.
I remember a checkie asking me one time how many wheel nuts were on the main gear.
Exactly...."what, you don't know the diameter of the prop", "you don't know the climb gradient at max weight on a standard day with one engine inoperative", "you are not aware of the prop blade angle at a certain station when feathered"....obviously you are not qualified to fly the aircraft.