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And? And? Are we having celebratory beers, or the kind you use to put out flames?
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Hahaha, thanks for your enthusiasm!
No beers here, I don't drink, but if I did, it would be a little bit of both. I wound up getting exam authority, so it wasn't a "real" check ride. Basically, because Quantum is a Part 141 school, they can authorize instructors to do the practical test (oral and flight portions), which is what happened with me. It was more of a stage check patterned after a check ride, if that makes sense.
Long story short, everything went super smooth except my straight-in autorotation. Even my 180-auto was dang near textbook, but I entered late and was a tad aggressive with applying aft cyclic in my straight-in entry, which caused my rotor RPM to climb a bit, which caused me to balloon a smidge, making my late entry even worse. Sooo, I was farther than 200' from my intended point of landing, which is out of standards.
The instructor doing my 'ride commented that, based on how well I executed all the other maneuvers (including my "beautiful" 180), he could tell I allowed myself to get flustered by my late entry, and that threw everything else off. It wasn't unsafe at all, just not quite to standards.
So, I'll do a review flight tomorrow and we'll shoot a crap ton of autos, and I'll go back up Friday to more-or-less shoot one good auto and call it good, haha. But otherwise, it was a near-textbook ground and flight otherwise. I'm bummed a bit, but it's not the end of the world and it'll keep me humble. I'll be stoked after Friday when I get my temporary ticket, though!