I am so proud of this student for bettering himself in this public forum so other future students can learn as well. My daughter and I viewed many mock check rides so these helped a lot!

Anyone trying to prepare for an instrument checkride, download pilots cafe for free (or donate), and make flashcards out of all the acronyms. Your 90min will be far better spent. 66HITS, GRABCARD, MARVELOUS VFRC500, all the different IFR altitude abbreviations (DA/MDA/MEA/MOCA, etc.) When studying weather theory, we came up with the acronym’s DOC and ICU for high and low pressure systems. High pressure because docks are higher than the water, air moves downward, outward, and clockwise. ICU because you might be six feet lower soon, inward, counterclockwise (it’s counter productive to be dead), and upward. And brush up on all your fun acronyms from private, like IMSAFE, AAVIATE, SPARROW (adds supplementals, like G1000, and placards), NWKRAFT, PAVE/PPPPP, ATOMATOFLAMES, FLAPS, CCCCC (when lost), DVMONA, 30FTDUC (reg renewal). One of my favorites is for convective sigmet, or EAT SHT. Embedded thunderstorms, a line of thunderstorms, thunderstorms with significant rain to the surface exceeding 40% of a 3K sq mile area, surface winds greater than 50KT, hail greater than 3/4 inch at the surface, and tornadoes. Valid for 2hr’s.

Just got my PPL today, watching this to see what I’m in for next lol!

That transition at 50:00 was hilarious

I am a well season spin instructor in Indy with over 3000 spins and hundreds of CFI endorsements. This is one of the BEST explanations I’ve ever seen on spins. Exceptionally well done!

I am a well season spin instructor in Indy with over 3000 spins and hundreds of CFI endorsements. This is one of the BEST explanations I’ve ever seen on spins. Exceptionally well done!

Side note to all you students earning your ratings: For my instrument rating, during my check ride, I lost track of a few facts in my head, and was blanking. It pertained to attitude instrument flight, and I was just absolutely blanking on the orders and what pertained to which, etc. etc. So, I admitted this to him, and said “I’m going to talk about something that will help jog my memory.” We chatted for twenty minutes about the JFK Jr flight, and how crucial it is to the safety of flight to understand and interpret your aircraft instruments. He asked a few specific questions pertaining to the incident, and after giving my explanations, he said “excellent. That’s what I was looking for.” TL,DR: I passed my instrument oral by chatting it up with my DPE about JFK Jr’s failures as a pilot, mid oral, and it helped me pass my exam.

Jhope ,is damp insane, choreography,spin his hands like plane starting to flying.

Amazing DPE…. Does a great job leading the student to the answer! Hope mine is similar to this

This is so much better than the king school online course. This clears up all the confusion I had! Thank you

Really enjoyed the podcast

Dam that video is epic, very enjoyable, well done on the livestream too👍👍👍👍

Excellent explanation!!! Thank you very much!!

oh man. bro needs to refresh weather theory.

Thanks fo sharing

I use these vids as a gauge of my general knowledge. Damn I know a pretty good chunk. Did my mock oral today, and aced that... flight part could've been better. High teens and gusting 26. Ooooeeeeeyyyyy... it was bumpy..

thank you for this video

Thanks for another great video Gold Seal

Excellent presentation, very true to the actual event. I like that you don’t do the viewer the disservice of presenting a mock-oral where the CFI just shakes hands with the students wang the whole duration of the evaluation. Checkrides are TOUGH and preparation/training needs to reflect that fact.

22:42 Is this staged or was the student for real?

Why doesn’t he give the answers to the incorrect responses

91.169 - An alternate is always required unless: - *Have an approved instrument approach at your first airport of intended landing and - 1-2-3 rule

0:03 ok

PARE in Spanish means "STOP". PARE the spin 😎🤙

Damien is incompetent as an instructor 😂😂 I wouldn’t ever stay with him

Any other ATP students recognize this guy from the Elevate videos? 😂

Over 50 years ago I owned a Citabria and played around a lot with spins. Sometimes with pieces of wool taped along the trailing edge. I Agee with you. My understanding is the wing that drops first produces more drag than the higher wing that is still flying sort of. Opposite rudder increases airspeed over the lower wing producing lift and reduces airspeed of the higher wing causing the plane to level out. Simple, then you pull out of the dive. My record for continuous spins is 31 starting from controlled airspace. Illegal spins at night with only your landing light on causes lot of ufo reports, only did it once.

I operate out of a class d and on departure/outbound, I always open flight following with my first call to ground, even before my taxi request. They’re a busy class d and sometimes they give you your “on request” when you’re halfway to the runup area but the controllers are great. I’ve never gotten swatted away.

Would have loved to hear the debrief.

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Dam good video

Thank you for this awesome video!

Great video

It would have been beneficial to include the post brief

Not really informative if you don’t provide correct answers after he gets it wrong… this is just a mock check ride so giving the answers after the fact would’ve been way better for the viewers and the student in the video 😮

not exactly sure

*u look over n see ur pilot is watching this while it’s happening😂

Excellent video, very clearly explained! I fully agree on the benefit on learning to react to an incipient spin correctly, it is la bit like learning to ride a bicycle... there is a need to also experience it irl.

This video convinced me to buy your IFR Package, perfect and so much better than reading from books.

Great explanation. Concise

Gutmann Junctions

Has a book on the table and too lazy to look things up Lost of guessing and I don’t know or I’m not sure Geez Hit the books again

i was holding it together till the nav log... who endorsed this guy?!

I'm fortunate to live in the US Central time zone, which made it easier for me to come up with some mnemonic memory aids on this. "Spring Dandily Forward Six": In the Spring when we observe Dst, Zulu is 6 hours Forward/ahead of us. "Fall Slowly Back Five": In the Fall when we observe Standard time, we are 5 hours in Back of/behind Zulu.

Passed my checkride today 🕺 No joke…I just woke up from a 7 hour “nap”. It went really well but I was dead tired at the end and my instructor flew us home while I sat there like Weekend at Bernie’s lol

Thank you for taking it like a champ so the rest of us can learn. ❤

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10-15grand is bs for private pilot

Great. And this is how a 2 mins video can save me 1 hour of book study to simply understand why moist air is lighter than dry air

Very helpful video. Thanks