269 Mastering Your Checkride with ForeFlight with Seth Lake
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🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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269 Mastering Your Checkride with ForeFlight with Seth Lake
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269 Max talks with Seth Lake about how to use and how not to use ForeFlight for a successful checkride. Even if you aren't planning to take a checkride, you'll learn lots of tips from Seth about how to use the Documents tab of ForeFlight to organize information that you may want to have at your fingertips when you fly. He recommends you create a Binder for your checkride and then add documents to that binder. For example, for an instrument checkride, you may want to include some of the FAA Handbooks, including the Instrument Procedures Handbook and the Instrument Flying Handbook. Other things you might want to include are: Part 61, Part 91, Part 135, ACS Instrument Rating Airplane, Aeronautical Information Manual, Digital Terminal Procedures Supplemental and FAA International Flight Plan. He also mentions a glitch with the Bookmarks function, which is keyed to a particular page in a document, rather than a particular topic. This can become an issue as documents get updated with new pages, and the topics shift to different pages.
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| 0:00.0 | But as you can see, this took a little bit of work. We didn't just open up our foreflight |
| 0:05.6 | and it all worked like this. We have to put some time in making it work for us and not just |
| 0:12.6 | expect that it's just automatically going to be easy. That's Seth Lake, talking about how to master |
| 0:17.8 | your check ride with forflight. And even if you aren't planning to take a check ride, you'll learn lots of tips from Seth about how to use the documents |
| 0:25.0 | tab of foreflight to organize information you may want to have at your fingertips when you fly. |
| 0:29.8 | So please stick around for this episode. Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk |
| 0:33.9 | where we talk General Aviation, with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student |
| 0:38.1 | pilots to help keep you safe. I'm Max Crescott. And last week in episode 268, we talked with Tom |
| 0:44.3 | Turner about how to troubleshoot a partial or total engine failure in flight. So if you didn't hear that |
| 0:50.0 | episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewstalk.com slash 268. And so that you don't miss |
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| 1:16.4 | aviation news talk. And members who signed up at the $20 month level have already seen the video |
| 1:22.0 | version of this episode where you can watch the screen of Cess iPad as he went through various |
| 1:27.2 | screens while we recorded this episode. And if you sign up today, you can watch the screen of Seth's iPad as he went through various screens while we |
| 1:27.9 | recorded this episode. And if you sign up today, you can view it too. Just go out to |
| 1:32.3 | AviationNewstalk.com slash awesome. Now let me tell you a little about Seth Lake. |
| 1:37.6 | Seth is an Air Force Reserve C-130 instructor pilot recently out of active duty. He's now a full-time |
| 1:43.2 | flight instructor and DPE giving check |
| 1:45.5 | rides in Arkansas. And you can find out more about his activities at vSl.aero. And now here's our |
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