ZWflyer
Well-Known Member
Here's yet another checkride report for the anyone currently working on the CFI. I was assigned Cal Cleveland as my inspector and we were originally set to do the test on April 10, but low overcast ceilings that day limited us to the oral portion only.
The oral lasted approximately 5 hours that day, followed by another 1.5 the next day when I returned to do the flight portion. We covered pretty much all of the FOI's. Then we went into an in depth discussion on Aerodynamics. We spent quite some time on this, so I would suspect this is one of his more favorite topics to dig deep into. After that we covered Airspace, Endorsements, FAR's, Aircraft Systems & Logbooks, Weight & Balance, Aeromedical Factors, Night Operations, and probably a few more things that I am forgetting. He had me teach him a lesson on Turns around a Point, which I had to prepare from scratch without the aid of my trusty lesson plans. I spent what seems like an endless amount of hours putting together that book of lesson plans, and he never even looked at one!.......I think that pretty much covers the oral.
For the flight we departed AFW to the north, and climbed up to run through steep turns, power on/off stalls, elevator trim stalls, and then we did a steep spiral to get down to lower altitude. From there we did turns around a point, s-turns, eights on pylons, and a simulated emergency landing. After that we headed to Denton for a soft field, short field, and power off 180 landings. After the power off we headed back to AFW and did a no flap landing, and the flight was FINALLY over. Total flight time was 1.8.
A big thanks goes to ryanmickG for his superb instructional skills! Three CFI candidates in a row have passed with the FSDO on the first try, so the guy must be doing something right. Of course it could just be that we were all unbelievably great pilots.
Overall, I think the experience was definitely a good one. I learned a TON from preparing for this rating. Anyone who thinks they don't need to do the CFI rating really needs to re-think things. You will only be selling yourself short.
The oral lasted approximately 5 hours that day, followed by another 1.5 the next day when I returned to do the flight portion. We covered pretty much all of the FOI's. Then we went into an in depth discussion on Aerodynamics. We spent quite some time on this, so I would suspect this is one of his more favorite topics to dig deep into. After that we covered Airspace, Endorsements, FAR's, Aircraft Systems & Logbooks, Weight & Balance, Aeromedical Factors, Night Operations, and probably a few more things that I am forgetting. He had me teach him a lesson on Turns around a Point, which I had to prepare from scratch without the aid of my trusty lesson plans. I spent what seems like an endless amount of hours putting together that book of lesson plans, and he never even looked at one!.......I think that pretty much covers the oral.
For the flight we departed AFW to the north, and climbed up to run through steep turns, power on/off stalls, elevator trim stalls, and then we did a steep spiral to get down to lower altitude. From there we did turns around a point, s-turns, eights on pylons, and a simulated emergency landing. After that we headed to Denton for a soft field, short field, and power off 180 landings. After the power off we headed back to AFW and did a no flap landing, and the flight was FINALLY over. Total flight time was 1.8.
A big thanks goes to ryanmickG for his superb instructional skills! Three CFI candidates in a row have passed with the FSDO on the first try, so the guy must be doing something right. Of course it could just be that we were all unbelievably great pilots.
Overall, I think the experience was definitely a good one. I learned a TON from preparing for this rating. Anyone who thinks they don't need to do the CFI rating really needs to re-think things. You will only be selling yourself short.
Keep it up for your next two...if you are going that direction.
