Thank you all so much for your help. I took the oral exam today and passed! letter of discontinuance for the flight due to weather. My examiner was very nice, told me everything he was going to go over, plan of action, etc. and that he wanted me to be relaxed. We started out with FOI stuff, laws/ characteristics of learning, what it means to be a professional, effective communication and barriers to effective communication. Talked a lot about logbooks/ endorsements, different kinds of endorsements I can give and where to find them (AC 61-65E). He spent a long time talking about airworthiness, went through all the maintenance logs and pointed out all required inspections and talked about when they are due, what AD's are, the different kinds and how to tell if they have been complied with or not. Next was inoperative equipment. Probably spend almost an hour on this talking about required equipment, where to find it, etc. If something is broken how can we determine whether or not we can legally fly with it INOP, and what steps to take if we can/ or cannot. ( Disable it and placard it INOP/ Write it up in the discrepancy log. Since our airplane does not have an MEL where can we find this information out? I did not know and he pointed me to the Single engine master MEL on the FAA website. Then it was on to weight and balance, this went on a little longer then I expected but was okay. I had to teach him short field takeoffs. This went well, he had me go into a little more detail on using the performance charts to calculate takeoff roll/ clear 50 foot obstacle and then talk about how to teach the student how to use things outside the airplane ( runway markings etc) to measure how far along you are. Ex: if we get to the beginning of the second stripe after the 1000 footers we know we have traveled 1200 feet and should be rotating, if we are not at rotation speed by then ABORT! I probably should have included that anyway but teaching the lesson to him made me more nervous then the rest so i made a few silly mistakes. I feel like Im leaving stuff out but my brain is fried. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I'm glad to have it behind me. Thank you all again for your input, it helps a lot. Advice to anyone else getting ready for this check ride: prepare thoroughly. Mark every section in your FARAIM so you can find it quickly, mark the aircraft logbooks and your own logbook, and know whats in the PTS. Ill post again after the flight
Then i had to teach him turns around a point which i kind of messed up the explanation a little bit, confusing it with eights on pylons but i just explained to him what I should have said. He had me do a few eights on pylons and then told me to head back to the airport. pulled the engine on me during the climb and the emergency approach went fine. back to the airport and first was a short field landing, probably the best one I've ever done. then a soft field landing which i messed up pretty bad. It was pretty windy and i don't know if any of you have flown a cutlass but i find it to be all over the place once you get into ground effect. I thought i might have busted it right there but he was like okay what could you have done better, or to smooth that out a little bit? ( add some power) Then he said he was going to fly a power off 180 and i was supposed to tell him what he did wrong or well. He turned base early and ended up floating past his point. I explained that and he was like good, now you do one. I was going to come up short so I went around and he said to try it again and just get as close as possible to the point. Touched down within 200 feet and that was it. Feels great to be done with it!