zaza32
Well-Known Member
Passed my Initial today and I'm sure you all can understand how relieved I am tonight! I know in my preparation it was helpful to read other's experience so I'll give it a shot here.
The Ground consisted mainly of FOI, Aerodynamics, Endorsements, Airspace, and Maneuvers.
FOI questions included: levels of learning, laws of learning, Maslow's human needs, Aviation instructor responsibilities, Flight Instructor Responsibilities, Maintaining Motivation, etc etc etc
Aerodynamics focused of the four forces of flight and production of lift. He made me describe everything in 16 year old terms and then again in technical/complex terms. Additional questions included how both weight and balance effect balance, why does and aircraft stall, etc.
As for endorsements he just said write down every possible endorsement a student pilot could receive up to the practical test and reference the specific FAR
For airspace, he set up a scenario (we're taking off here and landing here) teach me everything a student would need to know about any airspace they would be flying through (I included dimensions, clds and vis req, pilot req, equip req, and clearance req for each airspace)
The maneuvers we covered were turns around a point, eights-on-pylons, lazy 8's, and chandelles.
The flight was very quick started with chandelles then did lazy 8's, steep turns, steep spiral, turns-around-a-point, eights-on-pylons and then all the take offs and landings.
Overall, a very fair and complete checkride...just extremely happy to have it behind me
The Ground consisted mainly of FOI, Aerodynamics, Endorsements, Airspace, and Maneuvers.
FOI questions included: levels of learning, laws of learning, Maslow's human needs, Aviation instructor responsibilities, Flight Instructor Responsibilities, Maintaining Motivation, etc etc etc
Aerodynamics focused of the four forces of flight and production of lift. He made me describe everything in 16 year old terms and then again in technical/complex terms. Additional questions included how both weight and balance effect balance, why does and aircraft stall, etc.
As for endorsements he just said write down every possible endorsement a student pilot could receive up to the practical test and reference the specific FAR
For airspace, he set up a scenario (we're taking off here and landing here) teach me everything a student would need to know about any airspace they would be flying through (I included dimensions, clds and vis req, pilot req, equip req, and clearance req for each airspace)
The maneuvers we covered were turns around a point, eights-on-pylons, lazy 8's, and chandelles.
The flight was very quick started with chandelles then did lazy 8's, steep turns, steep spiral, turns-around-a-point, eights-on-pylons and then all the take offs and landings.
Overall, a very fair and complete checkride...just extremely happy to have it behind me
Congratulations.
