bob turner
Registered User
I know I have mentioned this before in the context of mechanics, but today a cute little blonde woman told me the CFI checkride is up to $1200. Yow! And then my buddy informed me that his CFI oral went from dawn to dusk, the ride was at night, and his DPE told him he was the first CFI candidate he had seen who passed on the first attempt.
I feel truly lucky to have joined the aviation community when I did. I never had to put up with any of that. They told us at America West that the required Dispatcher rating had a two day oral, but mine was closer to three hours. I don't know two days' worth of anything! And my Airbus oral was more like 15 minutes. I did know the 'bus cold, and I guess the examiner could tell, but I promise you, even with everything in the book memorized cold, I did not know ten hours' worth about the A320.
Moral might be - don't let your CFI lapse.
Remind me to tell you about my PP checkride. It ended with a shot of whiskey, and I had no idea I was taking a checkride. 1963.
I feel truly lucky to have joined the aviation community when I did. I never had to put up with any of that. They told us at America West that the required Dispatcher rating had a two day oral, but mine was closer to three hours. I don't know two days' worth of anything! And my Airbus oral was more like 15 minutes. I did know the 'bus cold, and I guess the examiner could tell, but I promise you, even with everything in the book memorized cold, I did not know ten hours' worth about the A320.
Moral might be - don't let your CFI lapse.
Remind me to tell you about my PP checkride. It ended with a shot of whiskey, and I had no idea I was taking a checkride. 1963.