Robman1
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My 20 year old CFI-I son had a DPE fail one of his best young students because he used 10 degrees of flaps for a shot field takeoff, in a 1965 Cessna 172 G. Due to my son's age, this has seemed to really bother him because he taught the young man (senior in HS) to perform the take off that way, as well as, all the other students he's trained and they had passed in other aircraft. The DPE wrote it on his slip and it was the ONLY reason. Now he has to perform this one item to pass and of course pay some more.
A bit distraught, mainly because it's his first to fail the practical (but he only has trained 11 so they'll be more), my son called the DPE later in the day after researching the matter online and via POHs, and asking all of the other instructors he knows about the flaps. The DPE said it was because the Cessna 172 was built before 1970. It is a 172 G model. Has any DPE here or anyone else ever heard of such a thing? Thanks.
We're Piper owners so I hope it's okay to ask this question about a Cessna 172 in a Piper forum.
A bit distraught, mainly because it's his first to fail the practical (but he only has trained 11 so they'll be more), my son called the DPE later in the day after researching the matter online and via POHs, and asking all of the other instructors he knows about the flaps. The DPE said it was because the Cessna 172 was built before 1970. It is a 172 G model. Has any DPE here or anyone else ever heard of such a thing? Thanks.
We're Piper owners so I hope it's okay to ask this question about a Cessna 172 in a Piper forum.
