passed Commercial checkride yesterday!

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:34:19 -0700, gatt wrote:

He emphasized that a single bad landing can turn off a prospective GA
enthusiast forever

I get around this by making up some excuse about why we're going to land
hard. I usually say something about practicing a landing on a specific
point, or how the bounces will help clean the airplane, or some such.

LOL! I like it.

"We're gonna shake loose the gremlins."

-c

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:34:19 -0700, gatt wrote:

He emphasized that a single bad landing can turn off a prospective GA
enthusiast forever

I get around this by making up some excuse about why we're going to land
hard. I usually say something about practicing a landing on a specific
point, or how the bounces will help clean the airplane, or some such.

- Andrew

LOL

That's a keeper! And of course, I'll use it as my own when I get around to
shaking off 20+ years of rust--I may need all of the excuses that I can
find.

Peter

Peter Dohm wrote:

That's a keeper! And of course, I'll use it as my own when I get around to
shaking off 20+ years of rust--I may need all of the excuses that I can
find.

If my landing is "firmer" than I anticipate, I mention how in certain
conditions it's better to get the plane firmly seated on the pavement
than to float along to a greaser. I then use whatever means necessary
to justify how we were currently in those conditions. G

Congratulations on passing the Commercial checkride.
The CFI checkride will be a bit harder, especially the oral.

gatt wrote:
Only flew for 1.9 (eventful) hours. After we landed, the examiner said
"Well, the problem with this airplane is that you can't do a landing gear
failure. In most planes, you can disable the landing gear and make the pilot
manage that extra stress and workload while setting up to land."

So I showed him the little tab to pull the circuit breaker on the landing
gear and he just looked at me. "Guess I need to get to know the airplanes
better."
Now I suppose everybody he tests in the future has a reason to hate me, but
I told him that it didn't matter, because the FBO owner doesn't let anybody
fly the airplane until he's pulled the circuit on them and the first time he
did it to me, I thought it was a genuine failure. In fact, every instructor
I'd ever been with up in the Arrow did it, so any of the applicants there
will have gone through that whole drill.

I spent WAY too much time memorizing chapter and verse of Part 135, 121,
etc. He said he doesn't dwell on that stuff because if you go to work for
a Part 135 operator, it's all in their own manual and you have to learn it
then anyway. Meanwhile, my brain broke on the most basic stuff, like
needing Mode C over the top of Charlie airspace up to 10,000 ft.

He apologized for not knowing about the landing gear circuit breaker tab,
but I don't feel short changed; his oral exam was more like a discussion,
and the checkride was more like a lesson such that by the end of it I was
able to demonstrate that I could do everything he asked.

By the time we got back, I knew I was a much better pilot for the
experience. I definately felt like I put way too much stress and paranoia
into preparation for the exam which translated into "checkride-itis." Way,
way easier than the Instrument checkride.

Woohoo! On Monday I start working on CFI.

-c
CP-ASEL-IA


Congratulations on the good ride. Sounds like you learned the first
valuable lesson for the CFI from this examiner as well when he admitted
he learned something from YOU on the ride.
A good CFI (in this case a good examiner) is always engaged in an
ongoing process of self learning and self evaluation both as a pilot and
as a teacher.
Go for it!!
Dudley Henriques

gatt wrote:

By the time we got back, I knew I was a much better pilot for the
experience. I definately felt like I put way too much stress and paranoia
into preparation for the exam which translated into "checkride-itis." Way,
way easier than the Instrument checkride.

Congrats! You are now licensed to try to get a job working for someone
for less money then your time is worth!


Woohoo! On Monday I start working on CFI.

CFI training is a lot of fun. I learned a lot. My only problem with it
is that after all of that training, you have to take the checkride. I
take my checkride on Monday and I've already got an upset stomach.

Anyone got any suggestions or advice?


-m
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"Mark T. Dame" wrote in message
...
Woohoo! On Monday I start working on CFI.

CFI training is a lot of fun. I learned a lot. My only problem with it
is that after all of that training, you have to take the checkride. I
take my checkride on Monday and I've already got an upset stomach.

Anyone got any suggestions or advice?


Thanks and good luck, Mark!

-Chris

On 2007-06-14 08:40:49 -0700, "gatt" said:

Only flew for 1.9 (eventful) hours. After we landed, the examiner said
"Well, the problem with this airplane is that you can't do a landing gear
failure. In most planes, you can disable the landing gear and make the pilot
manage that extra stress and workload while setting up to land."

So I showed him the little tab to pull the circuit breaker on the landing
gear and he just looked at me. "Guess I need to get to know the airplanes
better."

Heh, heh. Congratulations, Gatt.



Woohoo! On Monday I start working on CFI.

-c
CP-ASEL-IA

Oh, man. Here he comes....
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Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor