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A local DPE of mine will not fail cute girls. One couldn’t even describe a stall and he passed her, then went and lectured the 22 year old white male CFI blaming him for her lack of knowledge while she’s out on the ramp taking photos with her temporary PPL. Surreal thing to watch.
Then this is the same guy who interrogated one of my PPL’s on magneto’s for a half hour before failing him on tracking VOR’s and climbing turns under the hood. Kid was a great pilot, I felt awful not doing more under the hood with him but I just figured he’d do all that in instrument.
It’s just bullshit. The conscious and unconscious bias from DPE’s in the training pipeline leaves these white kids with derogatory marks all over while these girls cruise through not knowing anything appear squeaky clean to regional HR departments. I’m sure there’s institutionalized DEI practices that help enable this, but even if you were “going on merit” the girls have vastly better resumes because of all that gets handed to them. Except the uggo’s…they gotta earn that shit and for that I respect them.
