Air Facts

JANUARY 22, 2025

I put my things in the classroom and then went into the office to pull the airplane maintenance log and other documents. I went into the office and informed them of the out-of-date VOR check and a mechanic took the airplane up while I was doing the oral portion of the checkride to complete the VOR check.

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VOR Approach Airplanes Flight Plan 98

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 10, 2025

A Korean War-era airplane will always hold a special place in our hangar. Im hoping to take my checkride on the 15th after logging a few more hours of training. Once Job finishes his training, well be bringing it back to Indiana. This one is special to me, as my dadwho passed away about two years agoserved in the Army during Korea.

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Air Facts

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Friday Photo: Afternoon Stratus Enveloping the Golden Gate Bridge Air Facts Journal The view: Karl The Fog eating the Golden Gate Bridge The pilot: Jim Hopp The airplane: American Champion Citabria The mission: Returning home from a checkride The memory: My student had just passed her Private Pilot checkride in the airplane.

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Checkride Airplanes Pilot 52

Flight Training Central

APRIL 21, 2025

Here well highlight the various maneuvers youll practice during your flight training and be expected to demonstrate during your checkride. Study them while on the groundorprint them for quick reference in the airplane.

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Checkride Airplanes 52

Flight Training Central

JANUARY 20, 2025

Sporty’s F light Maneuver Spotlight series highlights the various maneuvers youll practice during your flight training experience and be expected to demonstrate on your checkride. Study them while on the groundorprint them for quick reference in the airplane.

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Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Many training airplanes also include an autopilot in the panel, but it’s not something you’ll use much during primary training. After the checkride, though, there’s a real benefit in learning how to incorporate the autopilot into your flying.

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 17, 2025

These codes indicate specific areas that need improvement before your checkride. PA = (private pilot airplane) identifies the applicable ACS XI = Area of Operation (Night Operation) A = Task (Night Preparation) K1 = Task element [knowledge (K), skill (S), risk management (R)]. The four elements of the coding system are: PA.XI.A.K1

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Checkride Airplanes Pilot 52

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Seems a quaint idea now that I get to fly a lot of very different airplanes, but it meant something at the time. My logbook declares that I graduated to the mighty Cessna 172 a few days after passing my private checkride, but 10 days after that was my first flight in a Cherokee. I dont even remember why.

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Airplanes Checkride Pilot Weather 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

A great option for that is taking an interactive ground school, such as the private airplane pilot course on Pilotinstitute.com. As a flight instructor, you can train pilots, conduct flight reviews, and issue endorsements required for pilot certificates, ratings, knowledge tests, and checkrides. Multiengine land. Single-engine sea.

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Pilot Weight-Shift-Control Lift Airplanes 86

Flight Training Central

MARCH 24, 2025

Here we’ll highlight the various maneuvers you’ll practice during your flight training and be expected to demonstrate during your checkride. Study them while on the groundorprint them for quick reference in the airplane.

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Ask a Flight Instructor

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Are any GPS approaches considered equivalent to a Precision Approach as required for the checkride? Since I have a perfectly good airplane I really don’t want to have to pay for time in another aircraft if I don’t have to. I have a tandem seating setup with no instruments in the back.

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AV Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Some of them seem funny to us now, like the fact that most of our airplanes had no radios or, God forbid, transponders and ELTs, while other facets of the 1970s are tragic. Everybody took the same checkride and succeeded or failed based on their knowledge, experience, and skills. I began my flying life in the early 1970s.

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Flight Deck Transponder Cockpit Checkride 95

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Many high-performance airplanes take advantage of turbocharged engines, which allow for cruise operations at higher altitudes into the flight levels. Video training, test prep, checkride prep and more. This video tip is from Sporty’s Commercial Pilot Training Course.

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Airplanes Checkride Pilot 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Meet with the staff and tour the facilities and airplanes and ensure they have experience in IFR training. Once you’ve completed the curriculum, you’ll be ready for the checkride. Sporty’s offers a helpful Instrument Rating Checkride Checklist available here. Visit flight schools near you.

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Inspire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Fittingly, it was the 118th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first successful flight of a powered airplane. The post Checkride Milestone — Christopher Gauger first appeared on Hangar Flying. On December 17, 2021, I officially became a pilot. I have a personal reason to celebrate December 17 from now on.

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Checkride Airplanes Hangar Pilot 40

Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

After busting a major milestone in their training (the initial solo or any of the three checkrides they had to pass in the T-38 syllabus), students would get one or two extra flights with an experienced IP. It took several attempts, but the controller earned his pay that day; Ali made one OK landing. he didnt solo); so, he was sent home.

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Pilot Knot AGL Approach 98

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Share your results : Facebook Facebook Twitter Google+ Scenario 2: You own a Cirrus SR-22 and are planning to fly the airplane to a concert with your spouse. Scenario 3: You’ve just completed your checkride and earned your Commercial pilot certificate.

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Checkride Pilot Airplanes Weather 96

Northstar VFR

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The checkride feels like an event in the distant future. The next thing you know, the instructor says it’s time to schedule your checkride and asks, “You’ve been studying for the oral exam, right?” Don’t let your checkride preparation sneak up on you! The Airman Certification Standards (ACS) is the guide to the checkride.

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Checkride Pilot Aeronautical Information Manual Drag 74

Northstar VFR

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Flight Instructor checkride is generally one of the hardest checkrides to pass, so future CFIs ensure their training is thorough and complete before scheduling their checkride. The flight instructor has a huge responsibility of training the next generation of pilots, so becoming a CFI can be a daunting process.

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Checkride Approach Pilot Airplanes 86

Northstar VFR

MAY 26, 2024

Chair flying is a technique to practice your flying skills by either sitting in the airplane on the ground, using a simulator, or sitting in front of a poster of your flight deck. Your instructor will be teaching you skill, safety and passing the checkride, so only practice what you have already been taught.

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Pilot Flight Deck Checkride Cockpit 89

Northstar VFR

AUGUST 4, 2024

Training Requirements for the Instrument Rating 50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command, of which 10 hours must have been in an airplane 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time on the areas of operation listed in 61.65(c) I felt skilled, knowledgeable, and confident going into my checkride!

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Checkride Approach Pilot Airplanes 69

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 15, 2024

The Federal Aviation Regulations, after all, are what we studied in ground school and recited to pass the checkride. The policy you seek is a private contract between the airplane owner and the issuing company. Yes, you’re an FAA-certified pilot, but how much experience do you have in the type of airplane you just bought?

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Air Facts

JULY 15, 2024

I did a checkride in 30 knot winds in the flatlands of Kansas, almost straight down the runway. It felt like pushing it for that airplane, but checkrides are so hard to schedule I went. Several times I’ve landed smoothly in a strong crosswind, then had trouble keeping the airplane on the runway. How do you know?

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Knot Crosswind Rudder Turbulence 98

Flight Training Central

APRIL 21, 2024

Here, we’ll highlight the various maneuvers you’ll practice during your flight training and be expected to demonstrate during your private pilot checkride. Study them while on the ground or print them for quick reference in the airplane.

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Approach Checkride Airplanes Pilot 72

Air Facts

MAY 15, 2024

Sure, you can watch YouTube videos about airplanes and join social media groups to talk about flight training, but to actually earn a pilot certificate you must put the phone down and get in an airplane—with another person! In the airplane there are no cheat codes. Learning to fly is the ultimate “touch grass” experience.

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Checkride Airplanes Pilot Crosswind 98

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

If you dream of flying small airplanes on weekends or piloting commercial airliners with hundreds of passengers, you need certain pilot licenses to reach your aviation goals. Private Pilot License : Take a checkride to receive your license. Checkride : $400-$600. Which License(s) Should You Get? Medical exam : $100-$200.

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Pilot Weather Checkride Flight Computer 52

Air Facts

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Flying Sport Air Facts Journal Over the years, I’ve noticed two main recurring themes across all my conversations with family and friends when they discover I can fly small airplanes: where do you go and how often do you fly. Flying isn’t like that.

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Checkride Pilot Airplanes 98

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Sporty’s F light Maneuver Spotlight series highlights the various maneuvers youll practice during your flight training experience and be expected to demonstrate on your checkride. Study them while on the groundorprint them for quick reference in the airplane.

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Checkride Airplanes Pilot 52

Northstar VFR

APRIL 21, 2024

So, knock out that Commercial checkride, and hopefully in a relatively fast timeline, start on the CFI prep. Step Two: FOI and FIA Written Exam Your CFI ticket is going to require two written exams : the Fundamentals of Instructing exam (FOI) and the Flight Instructor Airplane (FIA) exam. I ask them to teach me how an airplane flies.

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Checkride Airplanes Pilot Crosswind 57

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sporty’s F light Maneuver Spotlight series highlights the various maneuvers youll practice during your flight training experience and be expected to demonstrate on your checkride. Study them while on the groundorprint them for quick reference in the airplane.

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Air Facts

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In those years, I never missed a trip as a commuter, never scratched the paint on one of our airplanes, never got an FAA violation, never injured a passenger, and never had a less than cordial conversation with the chief pilot. My good friend Steve Schwenk also lives in PGD and owns a CR-22 Cirrus single engine airplane.

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Clearance Airplanes Annual Inspection Pilot 96

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Here’s the tricky part: if you have trouble passing checkrides or face medical issues, you could find yourself grounded before your career takes off. One failed checkride doesn’t just mean a bad day; it could throw your whole training timeline off track. This situation can leave you with a substantial debt.

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Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Here, we’ll highlight the various maneuvers you’ll practice during your flight training and be expected to demonstrate during your Private pilot checkride. Study them while on the ground or print them for quick reference in the airplane.

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Checkride Airplanes Pilot 52

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Next, every six months, captains must undergo a proficiency check in the simulator or airplane to ensure proficiency in all normal and emergency procedures. Simulators are preferred for these checks since many of the maneuvers are very dangerous in the airplane. Checkrides are serious business, and failures can results in termination.

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Pilot Wind Shear Airlines Airline 94

Flight Training Central

MAY 27, 2024

Me on checkride day with my instructor, Kurtis. Following the checkride, I totaled all the money I spent on training to discover it was $50 less than what the flight school manager had estimated at the beginning. I didn’t view this “pre-checkride” as the time to pinch pennies. Safe, affordable airplane.

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Checkride Pilot Airplanes 52

Northstar VFR

AUGUST 11, 2024

There are phases of flight when it’s critical that you know how to handle the airplane at slower speeds. Departure and arrival are two of the most critical phases of a flight and involves flying the airplane slow while being very close to the ground. When an airplane exceeds its critical angle of attack, an aerodynamic stall happens.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

4) Complete your practical test (checkride) After you’ve completed the requirements above, you’ll be ready for your instructor to provide an endorsement for your IFR checkride. Sporty’s Flight Training Central offers a flight school directory to help you identify a flight school and instructor for your IFR training.

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