On May 11, 1:45 pm, "gatt" wrote:
Hey, all. I'm getting ready for my commercial checkride. I've read the
Jeppeson PTS et al but I'd really like to hear what kinds of things people
have experienced in the oral and practical sections recently; mainly just to
see if I could hit whatever is pitched at me.

Obviously I'm expecting the "what can you do with a commercial rating"
discussion, but the DE is new to the FBO so nobody knows what kinds of
things he might throw at us.

Anybody want to share experiences?

-c

That's always tough when you are the first student for the CFI's use
of the DE. I always require the DE go fly with me before I send
students to the DE so I can see what type of guy he is. You always
want to avoid sending your students to unknown DE's when possible, but
somtimes schedules can affect that.

First, there will be no instrument questions (other than the
limitations of a non-instrument rated commerical pilot). Expect to get
a lot of questions about the limitations of a commercial pilot
operating under part 91 (i.e. what you cannot do w/o being 135).
Expect some of those situations to get pretty complicated (i.e. you
start out on a local photography flight, the photographer asks you if
you'll drop him off at point X rather than back at the airport).

-Robert, CFII