How hard is check ride?

bbchien said:
I've been through ~8(?) checkrides. Each was a learning experience but none were "hard". Each was an oportunity to fly with a high time airman and on every one I learned a lot (sometimes not about flying); on my CFI ride in particular the examiner learned a lot as well (I had a more extensive knowledge base that he, in an area he chose to have me discuss).

ON my CFI-MEI ride the examiner definitely AND willfully went for 3 red and one green on the single engine landing AFTER WE HAD DISCUSSED TWO GREEN/TWO RED WHILE ON ONE BLOWER. He had the aircraft "taken away from him" for that, we landed full stop and I had a little talk with him in which pointed out that I would be complaining to the FSDO if he EVER tried anything like that again. The rest of the ride was relaxed.

Principally the thing you have to be comfortable with are "that the outcome of the maneuver shell never be in doubt" meaning you stay in the middle of the "this will work out fine" envelope and not at the edges. And never create a real emergency.
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I’ve been around aviation for a while, but apparantly not long enough to understand “two red and two green while on one blower”.
 
It's been almost a month since OP...inquiring minds wish to know if the check happened yet and how it went....
 
Kritchlow said:
I’ve been around aviation for a while, but apparantly not long enough to understand “two red and two green while on one blower”.
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He deliberately approached low (on the 4 light PAPII) while we had an (throttle only) engine shutdown. You "don't be doing that".
and, we had immediately prior discussed that...
 
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The DPE for my commercial ride put it “You need to get most of the things right most of the time, and the things that can kill you, you need to get right every time.”
 
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