Honestly “.” your comments are ignorant. Your comments appear to claim you know some background of the situation, but by your complete disrespect to the DPE and the pilots involved, it’s clear you know nothing other than how to spout off disrespect. If you look at the aviation community in Alaska they are coming together to support these pilots. University of Alaska has donated an enormous amount of simulator time, internet ground schools have donated complete ground schools for re-training, CFI’s offered training and checkrides, Alaska Airmen’s Association has provided a staff member to help coordinate and give support, and the FSDO is doing everything they can to lessen the burden on pilots and accommodate schedules within the law. If you knew the DPE (which it’s pretty clear you don’t) you’d understand that this is a pretty understandable situation that he believed what he did to invalidate the check ride was actually approved since 2018 (Change 1) (there are details I won’t embellish on). He was wrong, and because of LACK of FAA oversight, 140 students continued to trust the system until the FAA provided enough oversight to find the problem. The FAA is responsible for the majority of this burden. It could have been a much smaller number (1 or 2 years, not 5 worth of check rides). If you knew you’d learn from pilots that they aren’t really upset at the situation or the DPE, only the burden of having to retest. It’s a sour situation, but your attitude and accusations are more sour than anyone ACTUALLY involved. And to say you believe the pilots were trying to cheat through their check ride and are at fault and should barred is absolutely inconsiderate, totally inaccurate, and entirely rude. They should not be immune to the findings, and should have to test in the area found to be deficient, but the rest of your comments are ignorant. Quit making assumptions in your comments. YOU are the one hiding under a rock with “.” as your username, so I matched it 