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General - Repeated Flight Test Item

A flight test item or manoeuvre will not be repeated unless one of the following conditions applies:

  1. Discontinuance: Discontinuance of a manoeuvre for valid safety reasons; e.g., a go-around or other procedure necessary to modify the originally planned manoeuvre.

  2. Collision Avoidance: Examiner intervention on the flight controls to avoid another aircraft, which the candidate could not have seen due to position or other factors.

  3. Misunderstood Requests:  Legitimate instances when the candidate did not understand an examiner’s request to perform a specific manoeuvre.  A candidate’s failure to understand the nature of a specified manoeuvre being requested does not justify repeating an item or manoeuvre.

  4. Other Factors: Any condition under which the examiner was distracted to the point that he or she could not adequately observe the candidate’s performance of the manoeuvre (radio calls, traffic, etc.).

Note:  These provisions have been made in the interest of fairness and safety and do not mean that instruction, practice, or the repeating of a flight test item or manoeuvre unacceptably demonstrated, are permitted during the flight test evaluation process.

Date modified:
2010-05-20