306 How to Pass a Checkride and Not Fail Before You Start – interview with DPE Jason Blair
Aviation News Talk podcast
Glass Cockpit Publishing
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Max talks with Jason Blair about the pilot examiner shortage and its impact on checkride delays. We also highlight the importance of proper paperwork and the common reasons for test discontinuation. Next, we delve into the requirements for checkride endorsements and the consequences of missing experience requirements. Jason addresses the misinterpretation of instrument rating requirements and the DPIC requirement for the commercial certificate. Finally, we discuss the qualification process for aircraft and the issues related to un-airworthy aircraft. This conversation covers the importance of documentation and airworthiness, checkride horror stories, maintenance issues and attitude, options for dealing with an unairworthy aircraft, the importance of maintenance logs, and organizing and tabbing logbooks.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you planning to take a check ride at some time in the future, perhaps for a new certificate or rating? |
| 0:06.9 | Or are you a CFI or planning to become a CFI? |
| 0:10.3 | It needs to prepare pilots for the check rides? |
| 0:12.9 | And did you know that 25 to 30% of check rides fail almost immediately for some very simple reasons? |
| 0:19.5 | If so, this is the show for you, as we'll be talking |
| 0:21.8 | with DPE Jason Blair about how to avoid these pitfalls. Hello, my name is Max Triscott. I've |
| 0:27.4 | been flying for 50 years, I'm the author of several books, and I'm the 2008 National Flight Instructor |
| 0:32.3 | of the Year, and my mission is to help you become the safest possible pilot. If you're new to this show, take a moment right now and touch either the subscribe key |
| 0:41.1 | or if you're using the Apple Podcast app, the follow key so that next week's episode is downloaded for free. |
| 0:46.8 | Last week I talked about SOPs or standard operating procedures and how three pilots' failures to follow SOPs resulted in fatal crashes. |
| 0:55.0 | If you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewsTalk.com |
| 0:58.5 | slash 305. |
| 1:00.3 | In a moment, we'll get to our conversation with Jason Blair. |
| 1:03.3 | But let me give you a couple of quick updates. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm still in Southern California on recording from my hotel room. |
| 1:08.5 | As I mentioned last week, I'm attending the aircraft accident |
| 1:11.1 | investigation course offered by the engineering department of the University of Southern California. |
| 1:16.0 | And by the way, I first heard about that course when I was looking at the LinkedIn profile |
| 1:20.0 | for Walt Sumwalt, the former chairman of the NTSB. And I figured, hey, if he attended the course, |
| 1:25.1 | it must be pretty good. It's a two-week course, |
| 1:27.8 | and I have just a day and a half left. Most of this week has been spent on our Capstone project, |
| 1:32.7 | which is a group presentation on a Mitsubishi MU2 turboprop accident, and we have all of the wreckage |
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