Seeking advice- checkride tips

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:14:07 -0800, "Bob Gardner"
wrote:

Don't worry about being perceived as too chatty. Smart instrument pilots act
as their own co-pilot, making callouts and briefing approaches. You can do
something dumb in silence and never notice it, but for some reason saying it
out loud rings alarm bells.

I explained to the DE that I normally talk to myself and call out
things as I do them, as "Oops, watch the altitude, getting a little
high, The wind has me paralleling the airway about a half mile to the
left, about 15 degrees (or what ever I think is right) should get me
onto centerline where I'll resume this heading. The last one
happened and he said, that's good enough, you know where we are,
what's happening and why, lets go do something else.

Coming up to the VOR (the hold was at the VOR) with a strong 90 degree
cross wind we were just a bit left of course, I explained we were
coming up on the VOR and this close I wasn't going to bother with a
correction as it would just have me turning early. I'd make the
allowance outbound and see how the next inbound went. I made lots of
mistakes but I called out each one as I recognized it and what I was
going to do to correct. He was happy.

Roger (K8RI)

Bob Gardner

"Terence Wilson" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:12:58 -0800, "Bob Gardner"
wrote:

Ex-examiner here.....

Talk. Let the examiner know what your thought processes are. If you catch
things going awry, tell the examiner what is happening and how you are
correcting. The real deal-killer is when the examiner doesn't realize that
you are aware of an error because you think that s/he won't notice it.
Good
luck!!

Bob Gardner

Bob, thanks for the tip. Do you recommend talking my way through the
check-ride, for example, when I'm executing the 5 T's or 5 A's should
I say what I am doing or would that be too chatty?