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My Checkride Changed Everything

NAFI

NAFI NOTAMs #55 My Checkride Changed Everything ~Guest Blogger Beth Stanton The plan was to keep the date of my checkride a secret. If I bombed, I wouldn’t have to disclose that fact to the world. When I passed, it would be a happy surprise. July 9, 2011 — the day I earned my wings, was the proudest moment of my life.

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Pilot Safety Simplified: Proficiency vs. Currency Explained

Pilot Institute

Well, it typically goes the same way your checkride does. Like your checkride, it can be conducted by a designated pilot examiner (DPE), a pilot proficiency examiner with authorization for the type in question, or a Part 142 simulator training organization. You need to show your ability to read weather charts and NOTAMs.

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How to Obtain the Perfect Aviation Weather Briefing for Your Flight

Northstar VFR

A Standard Briefing will include many reports and forecasts: adverse conditions, synopsis, current conditions, enroute forecast, winds and temperatures aloft, and NOTAMs. You’ll be advised of any conditions that may have changed, adverse weather advisories or NOTAMs that have been issued since you received the Standard Briefing.

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Complete Preflight Checklists All Pilots Need

Northstar VFR

Checklist use is an element that pilots are tested on during checkrides at every level of training. You’ll need to show these inspection endorsements to the examiner at your checkride. Airspace : Check NOTAMs, TFRs, survival equipment. By Leslie Caubble, CFI/IGI Checklists are a vital component for safe flying.

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Watching the Gates

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NAFI NOTAMs #49 Watching The Gates ~Guest Blogger Aaron Dabney The following post is a combination blog and video blog post. Or at least for the required checkride prep portion if you inherited them from somebody else. Comment below, your thoughts. Do you agree with them? Some people don’t need to be pilots.

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Train train train

NAFI

NAFI NOTAMs #45 Train train train ~Guest Blogger Randall Williams, CFII/MEI Mentally we train emergencies so that we’re ready when they happen. That means that at least four times in preparation for each checkride we had simulated the failure of an engine, and at least twice, we had shut one down and restarted it.

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How to Make a Perfect Soft Field Landing Every Time

Pilot Institute

Going into a checkride (or a grass strip) without solid soft field skills is asking for trouble. Check NOTAMs Before departure, check the Notices to Air Missions (NOTAM) publication. You might find a NOTAM about your destination’s surface conditions. Soft field landings are widely misunderstood. Well, not exactly.

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