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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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Teaching International Student Pilots

Air Facts

For example, describing a Cuban eight maneuver would involve such writing as, enter the (in Farsi , R-L), Cuban eight (in English, L-R), maneuver no lower than (in Farsi , R-L), 10,000 AGL (in English, L-R), at a minimum of (in Farsi , R-L), 450 knots (in English, L-R). add 5 knots for winds at 10 knots gusting to 20 knots).

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Managing the wind

Air Facts

Though wind is reported using such simple numbers like 270@15G20, I’ve come to believe that 20 knots here is not always the same as 20 knots there. I did a checkride in 30 knot winds in the flatlands of Kansas, almost straight down the runway. Then came the landing in 20 knots in the Hill Country of Texas, west of Austin.

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Commercial VS Private Pilot: What Sets Them Apart?

Northstar VFR

Skillset The ACS (Airmen Certification Standards) dictates to what standards that specific rating’s checkride will be conducted. Each maneuver has limitations as well, for example: Airspeed must be + or - 5 knots, bank angle must be within a certain degree setting and altitude needs to be + or - 100’, etc. But that will change!

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Stalls in the Pattern

AV Web

Winds were from 290 degrees at 15 knots, gusting to 21 knots. Flying a power-on stall using the usual training and checkride techniques is uncomfortable, and frankly difficult to reproduce in most airplanes for most pilots, and even their instructors. Yet all indications are he succumbed to a simple stall on final approach.

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Making Like Maverick in an L-39

Jetwhine

Cram enough L–39 knowledge and skill into my brain to pass a type-rating checkride. Only if a pilot chooses the complete course with a checkride is an instrument rating required. Down low, maximum speeds can easily exceed 425 knots. My 200-knot steep turns begin at 14,500 feet with gentle banks. In a non-U.S.-certified

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Mastering Show Flight: A Pilot’s Guide to Precision Flying

Northstar VFR

The standards for slow flight on a Private Pilot checkride are: maintain the specified altitude, ±100 feet; specified heading, ±10°; airspeed, +10/-0 knots; and specified angle of bank, ±10°. Private Pilot Airplane ACS, Area of Operation VII, Task A ) Note: The standards are different for the Commercial and Multi-Engine checkrides.