Oral started off with some basic endorsement questions, like How many hours does a private pilot student need with in 60 days of a practical test, what are some common solo endorsements, are there any exceptions to the night time flight requirment for private pilots. With those simple things out of the way. We went onto FOI.
I had taken my AGI, and IGI writtens and also told him I went to college for being a teacher which I think helped me with the FOI stuff. He basically asked me what learning was, to define and explain the principles of learning, then to define rote, application, understanding, and correlation, with an example of each using steep turns. Then we talked about what it was like to be a professional instructor and taht was it for FOI.
Talked about aerodynamics next. What is lift, how is it created. Wanted me to talk about angle of attack, angle of incidence, dihedral. Did a lesson on VMC where I had to give a big explination of that, along with critical engine stuff. Talked about P-Factor and stopped me there. I didn't have to discuss accelerated slip stream, spiraling slip stream, or torque. Took a nice break, then came back to talk about FAR's in general.
Asked me alot about fars and requirements to become private, instrument, commercially rated, etc. Also asked what are the requirements for helicopter commercial pilots to become commercial airplane pilots. I didn;'t know all the answers but knew most, and if I didn't know one I told him I can find it under Part 61 or 91 and he was fine with that. FARS took a good 45 mins.
Covered the Miami sectional is big detail. With that out we ended up talking about airspace and all the cloud clearances.
Did another lesson plan on short field take off. This lead into a bunch of questions on performance charts, and engine out scenarios and what I would do as a CFI. Most of his questions were scenario based. With performance in mind had me do a weight and balance, where the plane was out of balance and I had to show how to get it back in balance, and move the CG's around.
Talked about fuel system, landing gear system in good detail. He wanted to know how the three green lights lit up, and why Vle and Vlo/up, Vlo down are important speeds.
Didn't do much on weather, just had me read a metar, and tell him that GR meant hail.
For aeromedical just talked about motionsickness, and what I would do if I had a student who was suffering from it.
THe oral only lasted 3-4 hours and alot of it was him talking and teaching me a few tricks. I asked if I could take notes, and he seemed impressed by that. The oral covered much more than what I listed above, but those are the highlights I could remember.
Now the flight. I preflighted, and with no questions about that we were off. Departed FLL heading west to the practice area, where I started with s-turns, then onto steep turns, slow flight, power off, power on with 20 degree turn, and accelerated stalls. he made me break the stalls(except accelerated, even though PTS says only take it to a buffet) After the stalls he took the plane and showed me some stalls of his own which were pretty fun. Almost thought he was gonna spin it haha.
After that I did my Vmc demo, and engine failure/secure. We then headed to Nort Perry Airport where I did my short field landing, and engine failure after takeoff. We then had to land and wait for a nice storm to pass that was over FLL. I knew the flight was over because I had done everything but he didn't tell me I passed. On the ground at North Perry he asked me if I had my approach plates, which I did and he said good. THe weather passed and he flew us back to FLL and told me to act as if he were my student which I did. He landed and taxi'd in. I then tied the plane down while he went inside still not knowing if I passed. When I went inside my white paper was there for me to sign and i was very happy :nana2: Any questions, let me know!
