65 Private Pilot, Instrument, and Commercial Checkrides Changed Again – Interview with Jason Blair, FAA DPE
Aviation News Talk podcast
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4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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65 Private Pilot, Instrument, and Commercial Checkrides Changed Again – Interview with Jason Blair, DPE
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65 To become a pilot, students have to pass the Private Checkride. The ACS is the document that defines what’s on the checkride, and what students have to do to pass. But the ACS for the Private, Instrument, and Commercial checkrides just changed again. Max interviews FAA DPE Jason Blair, who explains what changed, and how checkrides have already changed.
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Private Pilot - Airplane ACS, June 2018
Jason Blair's Books on Amazon:
An Aviator's Field Guide to Middle-Altitude Flying
An Aviator's Field Guide to Tailwheel Flying
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| 0:00.0 | you know we might ask a question as simple as so we're flying along in our scenario here we are at |
| 0:06.9 | nine thousand feet and everybody in the aircraft is starting to get a little bit tired maybe a little bit |
| 0:12.6 | of a headache what do you think's happening um and you know sometimes we'll get the answer oh must be |
| 0:17.0 | hypoxia okay well what kind of hypoxia Is it carbon monoxide or is it altitude based? |
| 0:22.0 | It's starting to evaluate the type of hypoxia will also help you mitigate the type of response that |
| 0:29.0 | you're going to have. |
| 0:32.9 | Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 65 of the Aviation News Talk podcast, where we bring |
| 0:38.0 | you general aviation news and relevant information and tips that pilots like you can hopefully |
| 0:42.1 | put to you someday. I'm your host, Max Truscott, and if you have a check ride coming up anytime |
| 0:46.7 | soon, you're going to want to hear about the changes that became effective earlier this week |
| 0:50.9 | on June 11, 2018, and they affect the private instrument and commercial |
| 0:55.8 | check rides. And in a moment, we'll be sitting down with Jason Blair. He's a designated pilot |
| 1:00.6 | examiner, and he'll talk with us about what's changed in the ACS and how your check ride will now |
| 1:05.7 | differ because of those changes. And we'll get to that conversation with Jason in just a minute. |
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