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Nancy Hattaway Miller wrote:

> LFransson wrote:
> > This is true.  The examiners I have worked with tend to be annoyed
> > by students calling to schedule checkrides 

*blink* they do?

> That's funny... I called to schedule my checkride, and then when that
> DPE had to reschedule and we couldn't find a mutually workable time, I
> called a second examiner to schedule. Neither seemed annoyed; I 
> thought that was the usual practice.

Same here, I was given a list of DEs with a couple of recommendations
by my CFI ("try for one of these three").  I called two of the three
trying to set up a mutually agreeable time, they were very nice to me
even though I had plainly woken one of them up after a night charter.

They did ask where I was training and who my CFI was, maybe they would
have sounded annoyed if it were a CFI with a rep for sending
ill-prepared students or something.

I guess if it works, but it seems like a CFI trying to broker schedules
between a busy DE and a working student with a busy schedule would be
kind of inefficient.

Why should a student calling annoy a DE?  Sounds like a DE who is maybe
too easily annoyed.  

Snowbird

