I started a new career at Carter in Pulaski, WI and tried the check ride. One of the tasks is to stop at the hold short before entering the runway. The highlighted hold short box I’m supposed to stop on was half way up the runway itself, and stopping at correct pavement marking was not triggering completion of that step. If I stop and wait, and then enter the runway, it said I failed to stop at the hold short. I thought maybe it wanted an ATC call out or engine run up, but neither of those had any effect.
I think this is simply a limitation of being forced to start at tiny airports, where they do not get near the amount of dev attention as bigger airports, and thus markings and such are not being tracked correctly. I did pass the check ride over all, but it was still quite irritating restarting the check ride multiple times thinking I had to pass that particular action to get the PPL.
And sometimes atc calls and clearances doesn’t work properly. After landing, i failed to call ait and ask for parking twice and it penalized me for getting the taxiway without announcement, this happens once in the home base that I selected (NTTB, Bora Bora) and in the CPL check ride in Bob Hope airport.
Another example. Last I checked, the 172 is neither a bush plane, nor able to phase through solid objects, and this “airport” doesn’t even exist IRL (That’s a warehouse in the pic).
There’s all kinds of impossible or nonsensical taxi directions, and then you get penalized for entering or exiting the runway without announcing / talking to ATC. I just had one where the hold short was on the far side of a runway, and I got penalized for crossing it.
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