Anyone know the problem/solution?During the commercial checkride in MSFS2004 at the point after I climb to 6500 and I should be instructed to fly to Harvey, the instructor reverts back to the gear-down decent instruction. If I follow the instructions and do another gear-down decent the instructor will tell me to maintain 3500 and 140kts, then fly to Harvey. Getting close to harvey I'll be instructed to do a high-speed decent, but I'm flying dirty! (gear down) Eventually it will fail me.If I ignore the gear-down instruction, and fly to harvey, well, it's screwed up.Anyone have the same problem?????Ben

Raise your gear for the high speed descent, then lower the gear again when configuring to land.Now once you get to that point, let me know if you run into the problem I did recently. After taking off and reaching the heading and altitude requested for the dead-engine landing, the engine never fails and I'm just left on my own to fly out into eternity. The woman conducting the checkride never shows up again.I posted a question about it last week, but got no responses.

Did you get the gear-down decent instruction twice? If I do follow the second gear-down instruction, the high-speed descent instruction comes when I am only at 3500ft.I'll try your suggestion.Thanks!Ben

Yes, there are two gear-down descents. The way I interpret the instructions, the second one occurs during the turn toward the airport. And yes, the high-speed descent occurs at 3500 feet, but you have plenty of time in the 2000 ft. descent to reach speeds near 200 knots.Regarding my previous experience of losing the examiner: I was able to try the checkride again this past weekend and she stayed with me to kill the engine and complete the ride through the dead stick landing. So evidently the bug I encountered was only a sporadic one.Along the way, I discovered a minor "cheat" that's possible if you only want the certificate. On the dead stick landing, if you are short of the runway (or otherwise off the runway), try landing the plane smoothly on any ground surface and bringing the plane to a stop without hitting a building, tree, or etc. If you're close to the airport (and if you didn't exceed tolerances on the previous leg), you'll probably get the certificate.I wanted to prove I could do it right, and went back last night and completed a perfect dead stick landing and finally passed the checkride.

Since no one before was replying, I went in to the code for the check ride (../lessons/comm/commercial checkride.abl) and found that the instructions for the gear-down decent are repeated. I figured that this was a lazy programmer error, and just erased the code block. There then was one instuction at the end of the last lesson block that needed to be changed, (CaseDesc3) to (CaseDesc4) so the program doesn't get lost. I ran it and it worked fine. (Now I just need to pass the ride!)