How to Fail Your Instrument Checkride

In a perfect world you would not be watching this video because you are fully prepared before your instrument checkride! Unfortunately we do not live in a perfect world. So, in this video Chief Flight Instructor Liz Brassaw discusses ways she has seen instrument students fail their checkrides. By the end of this video you should not fail your instrument checkride from the points mentioned in this video!
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[@rbmcfii]

Definitely some valid points, however I feel the CFII and or flight school has a certain amount of responsibility here, after all, they signed the endorsement 'I have determined he/she is prepared for the (category/class certificate or rating) practical test'. Even more so now with ACS than the old PTS.

[@Tan_AK]

Check ride is Friday.. and I absolutely feel under prepared. I can fly my holds great, do my approaches well, but the emergencies definitely have like no experience with. My 141 school has clearly failed in this regard.

[@coopercrowley9580]

How did it go mine is literally in 2 days

[@Tan_AK]

@@coopercrowley9580 got that instrument ratings son

[@drew9195]

Most 141 schools fail that. They try and get you in and out quicker than a pilot should and they fail to prepare you for everything. Cutting corners man. I hope you passed

[@Tan_AK]

@@drew9195 yo, I passed man. I’m almost through commercial now. I still stand my 141 program kinda sucks and waitlists are garbage, but I’m flying plenty outside of them as well to build time and stay in the air. Only reason I’m finishing with them is for the restricted atp

[@drew9195]

@@Tan_AK heck yeah man congrats! I left my 141 school ATP to go back to a part 61. My instructor at my 141 school was new (as were most of the instructors since they come and go at 141 schools) so he filled my logbook wrong the entire time I was there and doing the wrong requirements and they refused to reimburse me so now i was stuck idle with no money from December-now but I start flying again full time at the end of this month. I have my checkride for instrument at the end of March then off to commercial

[@oneethiotube8974]

I love the way how you teach is understandable

[@appleman485]

Really informative, thank you!

[@ThrustFlight]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@crazypilot4017]

Nice, good stuff 👍

[@youthfulambitionya]

Great advice

[@maritestaylor8458]

Awesome 😎😎😎

[@ois-jy9kl]

I was actually looking at some guitar video's. I was wandering about.. what was a instruments checkride 😂😅😅😂

[@NJay380]

I failed my flight part in funny and very stupid way.i was so nervous and I forgot to get DP clearance from my DPE and I took off and failed 😊😂

[@carlweisser3991]

I’m an old phart. The gee whiz glass displays are sure neat, but how about basic needle ball and airspeed. When your gee whiz display goes T/A, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to fly with the old fashioned standby instruments?

[@VictoryAviation]

There are still stand by instruments as required by the FAA. And, the likelihood that both the primary flight display AND multi flight display stop working simultaneously is so rare that it is nearly unheard of. If all that fails, almost everyone flies with an iPad or tablet that can act as a stand alone backup in an emergency. If even your ipad fails, then pull out your cell phone and use that with the same software that’s on the tablet. Point being, unless an EMP goes off next to your aircraft, the probability of all your navigation systems failing together is astronomically low. You’d probably have a better chance of getting struck by lightning three or four times, each time on the second Thursday of that month.

[@carlweisser3991]

WOW, I’m really an old phart. I never considered the iPad and cell phone. So I guess the old scan is now officially a stare. Things are sure easy now. I really would like to take one of these kids that are flying with glass and put them in a 150 with steam gauges and see if they could fly IFR.

[@stevo2313]

I realize that the point of your comment is to emphasize how much more difficult you think your IFR training and flying was. However, as someone who grew up learning to fly "old fashioned" gauges, still flies almost daily with "old fashioned" gauges, and honestly prefers to fly with "old fashioned" gauges, I can tell you that it's not better or worse, easier or harder, but different. The amount of information and expectation of pilots regarding technology nowadays far surpasses anything ever seen before. Also, stick and rudder isn't dead - plenty modern day pilots seek out training and ongoing refreshers on way to keep our skills sharp. And to flip your sarcastic comment on its head, I'd like to see you jump into a modern cockpit and fly IFR (assuming you never have, based on your comment)... you'd be no more successful. If you all have is to make people think you're better than them because you learned earlier, I'm sad for you.

[@sanjivbill2701]

@@stevo2313good god dude you didn’t need to kill him

[@assbread5950]

students who intend to have a career in aviation flying commercial jets, have no reason to waste time and money on steam gauges. they'll spend the vast majority of their proffessional career in a glass cockpit, so why not learn it from the beginning?

[@mikepapakilo8209]

I’ll be sure to study all those ‘proceedures’ 🙄

[@kimberlywentworth9160]

You have to know how to use a VOR as private pilot.

[@junetebarts1334]

Only if your airplane has one. My airplane didn't have one, so I did not need to know about it during my checkride, only for the written.

[@d.n.3652]

You get questions about it on the written. But it’s not utilized much for private