Well, the last 4 weeks have been extremely busy for me, studying and what not...has finally all paid off.
As of saturday morning (v-day) i am a Private Pilot.
Started with the oral which was about 1.5 hours, real cool examiner and we got along great, stumped me on a few and i had to look up a few questions.
But after that we stopped for a few minutes and headed out for the ride. I actually thought i had pink slipped 5 min into the checkride. I watched the KING video's on passing a checkride and ended up acting like John King for the first few minutes...big mistake.
We started on my x-country and my first checkpoint was the Appleton VOR and he wanted he to visually identify it. Well i couldnt find the damn thing, he had me circle for like 5 min til i found it. Then as soon as i found it he had me turn on course to our alternate...Knox County (4I3) and as soon as i rolled on to my heading there was a plane at the same altitude...so close we could see the pilots name scratched on his headset (slight exaggeration but prob less than 500 feet).
I looked at the examiner and was in awe for the fact he hadn't failed me. Anyways we got to 4I3 and he had me do a normal landing and taxi back..."told me to relax and get all of the crap off of your lap", fly like you having fun. We took off and did a short then came back around for the short obstacle (no obstacle) to a soft tield takeoff and headed back to Newark (VTA). The rest went like this:
-Hoodwork
.......-vectoring
.......-unusual attitudes
-Slow flight
-Simulated engine failure
-Go around
-Stalls (power on to the right, power off to the left)
-Steep Turns
-He said, "Looks like a white slip to me, take me home!"
and that was the extent of it....if anyone has any questions feel free to ask....now on to my instrument!!
-Falcon
(PILOT)
As of saturday morning (v-day) i am a Private Pilot.
Started with the oral which was about 1.5 hours, real cool examiner and we got along great, stumped me on a few and i had to look up a few questions.
But after that we stopped for a few minutes and headed out for the ride. I actually thought i had pink slipped 5 min into the checkride. I watched the KING video's on passing a checkride and ended up acting like John King for the first few minutes...big mistake.
We started on my x-country and my first checkpoint was the Appleton VOR and he wanted he to visually identify it. Well i couldnt find the damn thing, he had me circle for like 5 min til i found it. Then as soon as i found it he had me turn on course to our alternate...Knox County (4I3) and as soon as i rolled on to my heading there was a plane at the same altitude...so close we could see the pilots name scratched on his headset (slight exaggeration but prob less than 500 feet).
I looked at the examiner and was in awe for the fact he hadn't failed me. Anyways we got to 4I3 and he had me do a normal landing and taxi back..."told me to relax and get all of the crap off of your lap", fly like you having fun. We took off and did a short then came back around for the short obstacle (no obstacle) to a soft tield takeoff and headed back to Newark (VTA). The rest went like this:
-Hoodwork
.......-vectoring
.......-unusual attitudes
-Slow flight
-Simulated engine failure
-Go around
-Stalls (power on to the right, power off to the left)
-Steep Turns
-He said, "Looks like a white slip to me, take me home!"
and that was the extent of it....if anyone has any questions feel free to ask....now on to my instrument!!
-Falcon
(PILOT)