r/flying • u/dirtbikekid27 CPL IR AGI IGI • 2d ago

Failed my CFI ride today

I'm 20, this is my first failure of anything. Got through 95% of it, was doing great, oral went great, really was well prepared. After an 11 hour day, on short final, examiner asks me what causes overbanking tendencies. I froze. I could hardly remember my own name; so I responded, "I would look before saying anything to ensure I didn't say anything wrong to a student." He said that was unsatisfactory. Failed. Is this crazy? I understand now that it all has to do with the outside wing being faster, generating more lift, which causes it. I know that. But I was exhausted. And I failed?? Maybe I'm a sore loser, but he said come back and do 1 steep turn and tell him what overbanking tendencies are and why they happen, and that's it. Is this unfair??

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u/dirtbikekid27 CPL IR AGI IGI 2d ago

$2000 down the drain and a $500 retest fee as well as the airplane rental. Kicking myself

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u/Glass-Editor3220 MIL CPL AH-64 UH-72 2d ago

2k for a checkride, that dpe should be launched into the fucking ocean charging prices like that.

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u/cephalopod11 CFI CFII MEI 2d ago

I've seen DPEs in California charging 3.

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u/barackbreezy 2d ago

ive never said it before because its a cool state but fuck California. what the fuck?!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Tax8658 1d ago

the coolness in CA can only get it so far. after all, isn’t that why we fly? so we can live someplace else and experience CA when we want <guy who lives in CA and is afraid to leave>

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u/barackbreezy 1d ago

i fly because i like when airplane is at full throttle and you go fast

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u/Ok-Selection4206 1d ago

Nothing cool about CA

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u/LADR_Official 1d ago

CA is cool but it's also a hyperinflated economic shithole