CFI MEI initial with Pinkston in FLL

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Billy bob

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I have a check ride coming up in the near future with Pinkston down in Fort Lauderdale. I was wanting to know if anyone had any information on what his check ride consist of. Any information would be helpful.

Thanks
 
Dude is a fair examiner. Your PTS will cover your checkride as he does follow the PTS as he should.

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You already had two people in the other thread tell you what you need. Get off here and study.
 
Adler said:
You already had two people in the other thread tell you what you need. Get off here and study.
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Damn straight.


I had Pinkston, incredibly straight forward check ride. You instructor(s) will tell you what you need to know, when you need to know it, anything else is a waste of time.
 
Anybody had Downing in South Florida? If your a graduate of FlightSafety don't tell him! My single engine add-on oral ended up being 2.5...Don't ask because I seriously don't know...Should've been in and out in 20 mins...
 
N5247D said:
Anybody had Downing in South Florida? If your a graduate of FlightSafety don't tell him! My single engine add-on oral ended up being 2.5...Don't ask because I seriously don't know...Should've been in and out in 20 mins...
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You're complaining that 2.5 was too long for a CFI ride?!
 
It was a 172SP He asked me about the fuel system. I told him. Then he just got into the nooks and crannies of how an engine works, what a camshaft was,what a crankcase was, whats the gear behind the crankcase... A&P type questions...None of which was out of the PTS.It just caught me by surprise because, well I read the PTS, read the sub-parts as to which he is supposed to ask me, read my POH, more than thoroughly, then he shoots me a curve ball come oral.I buckled a few times to say the least....

Then he told me how he's supposed to be doing an oral and he shouldn't have to be teaching me and proceeded to tell me how FlightSafety doesn't teach you sh*t...

He asked me 2 basic performance questions as to which I answered correctly in about 2 minutes.Then magically, I was done.

The flight was okay.He had no complaints.I just had to do EVERY performance manuever.But a pass is a pass, so I guess I shouldn't be complaining too much. Just felt like I was treated poorly in a sense.
 
N5247D said:
It was a 172SP He asked me about the fuel system. I told him. Then he just got into the nooks and crannies of how an engine works, what a camshaft was,what a crankcase was, whats the gear behind the crankcase... A&P type questions...None of which was out of the PTS.It just caught me by surprise because, well I read the PTS, read the sub-parts as to which he is supposed to ask me, read my POH, more than thoroughly, then he shoots me a curve ball come oral.I buckled a few times to say the least....

Then he told me how he's supposed to be doing an oral and he shouldn't have to be teaching me and proceeded to tell me how FlightSafety doesn't teach you sh*t...

He asked me 2 basic performance questions as to which I answered correctly in about 2 minutes.Then magically, I was done.

The flight was okay.He had no complaints.I just had to do EVERY performance manuever.But a pass is a pass, so I guess I shouldn't be complaining too much. Just felt like I was treated poorly in a sense.
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Asking about the engine is not outside the PTS, but getting into specifics like you mentioned for a pilot checkride is over the top. If I were a DPE, I'd be looking that you knew what to do in and how to recognize an engine emergency (carb ice, bad magneto etc), not that you knew what every item was and what it did. My philosophy on that is that it's not bad to know, but there's nothing you the pilot could do to save that part/function in the cockpit. I once had a CFI who tried to get me to basically draw out the engine in order to get his sign off. Needless to say, he wasn't my CFI for much longer.
 
A150K said:
I once had a CFI who tried to get me to basically draw out the engine in order to get his sign off. Needless to say, he wasn't my CFI for much longer.
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Id have you draw out the engine too. And Id expect you to draw an empty block-square outline, with a prop attached to the front, with an arrow pointing to the block-square shape that's labled "engine".

Then you'd get the signoff. :)
 
A150K said:
My philosophy on that is that it's not bad to know, but there's nothing you the pilot could do to save that part/function in the cockpit. I once had a CFI who tried to get me to basically draw out the engine in order to get his sign off. Needless to say, he wasn't my CFI for much longer.
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Well, at least SOME knowledge of how the thing works is required. Systems is certainly a PTS area. Oil, crankshaft, pistons, magnetos - you should at least know what they are all supposed to do.

Flying larger piston aircraft is more about engine management than flying most of the time
 
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