Annual Check Ride for Pilots

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Rodney Fielitz. I'm a certified flight instructor in Cottonwood, Arizona and I'm here to give you the basics of what it takes to become a pilot. Now that we've covered the basics of what it takes to become a pilot, the last phase of your pilots is taking a check ride. When you get ready and have your maneuvers learned, you've done your cross-countries, you have your twenty hours of solo, twenty hours of duo, ten hours of cross-country time; all of these requirements are met, you've passed your written exam, which is something we didn't mention before but you will have to take a written exam and then you have to take a check ride. The check ride is with a FAA certified check pilot and we have standards we have to meet. This is a book we use called "Check ride". In here it has the standards you have to go through to take your check ride. There's nothing tricky, everything is spelled out in here. The examiner will go by this book and through the book. For example, again you must be at seventeen years of age, speak, write and understand English, have passed the knowledge test within the past twenty-four months, received your training, hold a third class medical and have an endorsement from an instructor within the past sixty days to do your application. With all these requirements met, then you go in here and then you have your standards that he follows this booklet all the way through and you have what you do your maneuvers with. You have tasks to do, and part of the tasks are understanding all the documents that are needed in the airplane: the weather information, cross-country again, and then the preflight inspection, the cockpit management, engine starting, taxiing, before takeoff, radio communication, traffic patterns, runways, go-around, landing operations, cross wind landings, short field take off and landings. Everything is spelled out in this book. It's really not that hard."