I am due to take my skills test at EGGD, well it's kinda been overdue for quite sometime, Ive had a frustrating time of it, basically I only work a 3 day week so I have plenty of time to fit in flying although it has taken me a while to get to the 45 hrs needed, basically when Im at work the sun shines and when Im on my days off the clouds roll in, last year I had a flight on the 18th Oct, went to Australia for 4 weeks 31st Oct, got back 30th november and didnt fly again until 4th january, i was ready for my skills test at the end of Jan and took it in Feb but aborted it because the visability was too bad, the weather reports suggested I took off but I wasnt happy before I went, i said to the examiner that we will give it a try, anyway I aborted it ½ hr into the flight, the plane i flew then goes into the engineers for its D checks at the end of March then doesnt come out until the middle of May, so as you can see its been one long wait, Ive already had it cancelled this week due to winds gusting to 35 knots.
The question is, my examiner said to me about the emergency drills i may encounter on the test, he said he wanted me to simulate some (understandable) but also said there may be some he wants me to do for real, I cannot think for the life of me what emergency drill he wants me to carry out for real, at EGGD he isnt going to give me a brake failure on taxi due to high levels of commercial traffic, all the ones involving engine failures/fires requires a shutdown, basically I know there could be one or 2 performed on the ground like an engine fire on startup but what about in the air?
Thanks in advance
Deano
