Checkride prep · free
Get ready for the oral,
one task at a time.
Everything on the oral comes back to one question: will you be a safe pilot? That is the whole point of the checkride, and of this course.
New to this? The terms, in plain words
- Checkride:
- your final FAA test for a certificate or rating: a spoken exam (the oral), then a flight.
- DPE:
- the FAA examiner who gives your checkride (designated pilot examiner).
- ACS:
- the FAA’s Airman Certification Standards: the list of what you must know and do on the test.
- CFI:
- your flight instructor (certificated flight instructor).
Built and refined in consultation with a working DPE.
- Private pilot
Your first checkride: regulations, weather, airspace, performance, systems and your own fitness to fly.
How the oral works · 52 lessons so far, more each week
- Instrument rating
Clearances, procedures, approaches and instrument weather decisions.
How the oral works · 22 lessons so far, more each week
- Commercial pilot
Commercial privileges, complex airplanes, and flying for hire safely.
How the oral works · 51 lessons so far, more each week
Handbooks, advisory circulars, the ACS and test supplements, charts: what each is for and how to use it, with update alerts.