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How to Prepare for Your FAA Checkride & Pass the First Time

Thrust Flight

Today I’m going to help you prepare for your FAA checkride. After dozens of hours in the plane and dozens more on the ground cramming with your instructor, checkride day seems to be approaching faster than ever. Remember the friendly and immortal words of Douglas Adams: Don’t Panic! Nobody likes tests.

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3 Common Private Pilot Checkride Mistakes

Thrust Flight

After months of preparation, weeks of studying, tens of hours flying, and thousands of dollars, your Private Pilot checkride is rapidly approaching. Here are three common mistakes Private Pilot applicants make on their checkride. You’re nervous, you’re excited, and you really don’t want to mess this up.

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Demonstration Stalls

CFI Academy

For the FAA Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Airplane Single Engine (ASE) checkride, the demonstration stalls are specific maneuvers that you, as a CFI candidate, must perform and explain to demonstrate your instructional knowledge and ability. There are indeed four demonstration stalls youll need to master for the CFI checkride.

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How I failed my IFR Practical Test Twice

Air Facts

I went into the office and informed them of the out-of-date VOR check and a mechanic took the airplane up while I was doing the oral portion of the checkride to complete the VOR check. We took off and headed to an airport for a VOR approach. I flew a lot of approaches and felt ready to take the exam again.

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4 Common Private Pilot Oral Exam Questions And How To Ace Them

Northstar VFR

Recovery from a spin is a guaranteed subject to come up on your private pilot checkride. The nose pitches up, sometimes aggressively because of how the airplane was trimmed on final approach and all your flaps are generally still down (lots of lift there). So how do you recover from a spin? What happens next? Know your systems well!

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Teaching International Student Pilots

Air Facts

You then execute a 180 o descending Final Turn maintaining 175 knots to arrive wings-level one mile from the threshold on final approach at 500 AGL. At that point, you slow to the final approach speed of 155 knots, which is held until crossing the approach-end overrun where you reduce power to touch down at 130 knots.

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Instrument Training in Tandem Aircraft

Ask a Flight Instructor

I understand that I will be limited to RNAV/GPS approaches but my home airport has several such approaches and airports in the training area also have many of these as well. Are any GPS approaches considered equivalent to a Precision Approach as required for the checkride? I have no NAV radios.