Never failed a checkride?

[SPilot]

Hi,

just curious.

Is there any statistic anywhere, or any way to find out, what percentage of commercial/atp pilots who have never ever failed a check ride, since the beginning of private flight training?

Is it common to never having failed a ride among people who have obtained "all" licenses, or are career pilots...i.e. a commercial/atp license with several variations of the instructor license?

 

[kingairyahoo]

Hi,

just curious.

Is there any statistic anywhere, or any way to find out, what percentage of commercial/atp pilots who have never ever failed a check ride, since the beginning of private flight training?

...nope!

Is it common to never having failed a ride among people who have obtained "all" licenses, or are career pilots...i.e. a commercial/atp license with several variations of the instructor license?

...since the answer to your first is nope, all we can base this on is pilots own admission...and we all know pilots never lie, right

 

[Spooky 2]

...nope!



...since the answer to your first is nope, all we can base this on is pilots own admission...and we all know pilots never lie, right

The FAA tracks this on an individual carrier basis. Usually somewhere around 3 to 4 percent. They would like to see it higher but the carriers balk at this notion, thus it remains fairly constant.

 

[BEfly]

You should poll everyone, could be interesting.

 

[SPilot]

I can see the headline in the newspapers: "96% of pilots failed their check rides!"

 

[kingairyahoo]

The FAA tracks this on an individual carrier basis. Usually somewhere around 3 to 4 percent. They would like to see it higher but the carriers balk at this notion, thus it remains fairly constant.

i will give you carrier specific, but not all the way back to private like he was asking...unless of course i didnt get the secret decoder ring

 

[Andy Neill]

Hi,

just curious.

Is there any statistic anywhere, or any way to find out, what percentage of commercial/atp pilots who have never ever failed a check ride, since the beginning of private flight training?

Is it common to never having failed a ride among people who have obtained "all" licenses, or are career pilots...i.e. a commercial/atp license with several variations of the instructor license?

I didn't fail any of the 4 FAA checkrides I took (SE Commercial, ME Commercial, SE CFI, and Instrument rating). I failed 2 military checkrides AH-1 annual and OH-58 SIP Initial. Both were subsequently passed within a week with the same evaluators.

 

[RCA]

I nearly failed every ride. Never giving up and making imediate corrections seemed to help.

 

[Princedietrich]

You'd be very hard pressed to find someone who has never failed a checkride or has never been "thrown a bone" during a checkride.

As for myself, I bombed twice. Once on the private (splattered the last landing, was either tired or just nervous) and once on the instrument rating (got a holding pattern entry backwards during the oral, but personally I think I was robbed on that one because it was a 5 hour long oral and the guy was being FAA observed as a baby DPE). There were a couple of 135 checkrides that I probably should have tanked but I made it through.

 

[AeroBoy]

I failed the private. My instructor never taught me how to recover from an unusual attitude with the hood on, and that was quite apparent during my checkride.

Passed the comm, multi, inst and flight instructor checkrides with no problems, though.