Check ride time

[mocaman]

Money

 

[Jmmccutc]

how much did it weigh?

9.4 lbs.

9.0 for base white paint
0.4 for color stripe...

 

[empenage]

Keep them calm.

Remember the examiner wants to check their decision making ablility.

Tell them that they can't remember everything, but they better know where and how to look it up.

Keep them calm.

Make sure they can fly their plane through anything and get back safely.

Keep them calm.

 

[Doc Holiday]

There are too many scenario based questions to think of them all, but use what you can come up with to see if your student can correlate basic information about systems, regs, and operating techniques to come up with a reasonable response.

Go through the PTS and hit everything as a last review. Expand upon those specific items listed, for example "preflight planning" encompasses a lot information. If the student knows the material, then this process should be fairly quick and straightforward. You should only have to clarify a few points here and there. If you find yourself having to teach/reteach very much of the material, then the student probably isn't ready. Be sure to review the introduction of the PTS as well, so the student knows exactly what is expected of him/her during the ride and what the examiner is required to be looking for.

Make sure that the student knows how to reference the FAR/AIM, POH, and other pertinent materials with some efficiency. IMHO, just knowing the speed limit below 10K is 250 because someone told you isn't good enough. The student should atleast know it is in Part 91 and should be able to find it with relative ease. (This was just a 'for instance').

Hope this helps.

 

[cforst513]

what i found helped (even at 8 am) on my pvt checkride was doing a few shots of jack daniels before i did the oral. really took the edge off of things

 

[FlyJordan]

9.4 lbs.

9.0 for base white paint
0.4 for color stripe...

Interesting, thanks, I always wondered how much paint weighed, but I was just always to lazy to look it up.

 

[PHX767]

My all time favorite is, "Why are you here for a checkride?"

Of many answers:

"I have completed all of the training requirements of part 61, have a properly endorsed logbook, am proficient in all areas of the PTS, and am prepared to demonstrate those items for you so that you may certify me as a xxxx pilot."

Among the worst answers: "Uhhh my CFI sent me."

 

[piperpa30]

whats the emergency freq anywhere?

 

[CaravanMan]

I always liked asking them weather scenarios. Like, if the weather is xxx can we take off? Ok, if the weather is xxx can we fly through that airspace? Etc, etc.

The one my PPL instructor got me on a long time ago still makes me laugh. He pulled out a San Francisco sectional (or whichever one San Fran's on, I don't remember) and pointed to a black line in the middle of the Bay and asked what that was? I looked and looked and eventually gave up. Then he pointed out that it was the "I" in "Francisco." LOL, it was so easy to miss, but I felt really dumb afterwards. If anyone has one of those charts it'd be interesting to see if it's still printed that way.