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Comm Checkride Today
I never think that any flight in particular reflected the best of my abilities. There is always something that I could have or had done better. I think that part of proficiency is seeing where there is room for improvement.. Well, there is somewhat of a balance required -- on the one hand, it's good practice to continually grade yourself. On the other, if you never have a benchmark flight where you put the chocks in and think "Now, that's the way to fly!" you don't know what you're capable of accomplishing. The more frequently I fly, the more often I have a good feeling walking away. That's not to say everything was perfect -- rather, I knew I was flying proficiently and capably and no safety, control, or system issue was ever raised. I grade myself pretty hard and most flights I give myself 85-90%. On the checkride I felt like I was at 70%. I have those days (we all do), but I suppose I should feel that if those are the gotchya days, and I don't have any safety, control, or system issue, then my overall proficiency is acceptable (at this time). By the way, this line of thinking needs to be stressed much more in the primary training curriculum. I can't believe how many "I didn't crash so it's all good" GA pilots are out there. Dan |
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Congrats Dan! Glad to hear you passed even if you weren't on top of
your game. I'm just starting my CP training. Mostly studying for the written test right now but today, along with a BFR, I did the 50 degree steep turns and some power off 180 spot landings. Fun stuff. -- Jack Allison PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane Student - CP-ASEL "To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become a private pilot you must strive to master four of them" - Rod Machado (Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail) |
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On Jan 12, 5:52*pm, " wrote:
Today I earned my commercial pilot's license -- whew! ................ I really don't feel like I "had it" today -- I felt like I was off. I have flown much more crisply and much more proficiently than I did today. Dan, Congratulations. It sounded like what you had experienced was the checkride norm. I rarely came across a checkride story where the pilots were happy with their performance. Last week I went up for a checkout flight with the DE, and of course my performance was significantly worse than normal. I told him to take a very long clipboard to write down his criticisms and was glad that it was only half full ;-) In spite of the temperamental northeast winter weather, we have tried to squeeze in a practice flight every other day or so. I want to be as proficient as I can be with the maneuvers to allow plenty of room for the expected performance degradation on checkride day. Doing the commerical maneuvers are just like patting your head, rubbing your tummy while running and chewing gum at the same time ;-) One just have to do them over and over again. I am scheduled to take the written next Wednesday and had hoped to take the checkride before the end of the month. Unfortunately, our plane developed a sudden ow-voltage problem in our last practice. The flaps barely retracted after my 180 power-off landing at a nearby airport. We could barely communicate with the tower on the way home & I had to execute a no flap landing. Good thing that I had practiced landings with all different kinds of flap configurations every few months or so. Just hope that the plane will be fixed in a short time before we loose most of our hard-earned flight proficiency. I am saving your post to read before the checkride which I hope to take place soon. Thanks. Hai Longworth |
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Just hope that the plane will be fixed in a short time before we loose most of our hard-earned flight proficiency. I am saving your post to read before the checkride which I hope to take place soon. Thanks. Hai Longworth Thanks! That makes the typing worthwhile. I keep an online flight journal he http://trainingforcfi.blogspot.com/ Dan |
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