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CFI Oral

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Survey: Looking back, what's that one area your DPE made you think "I should've studied that more"?? 

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  1. KDS on Sep 06, 2019

    My practical test for a CFI was so long ago and under such different circumstances that my experience would be irrelevant. However, I have seen a great many initial CFI tests. Based on that, I would say the biggest weakness among CFI applicants (and all other pilots) is the ability to look at a set of maintenance logs and tell if the aircraft is in compliance with the regulations. When asked to teach airworthiness requirements to an examiner playing the role of a pilot coming to the CFI applicant for help, they could not teach it because they did not understand it theirself.

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  2. ayavner on Sep 24, 2019

    I did pass on the first attempt, however one thing that fits the above description was emergency procedures. This may actually have been a case of being over-prepared – when I was done with my exhaustively detailed lecture on the subject, the DPE said what he is normally looking for is how can I condense it to the most-critical items. So I wasn’t “wrong” but there are always better ways to do something and i was happy for the constructive critique – often times it is a case of too much info can be as bad as not enough.

    Great question, and i’m surprised not more responses.

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  3. AV8R on Oct 10, 2019

    Back when I did my CFI oral, which by the way was the longest to date oral I ever had, I really wished I had studied RNAV more. I was weak in that area due to the fact that the airplane I used for the checkride did not have any GPS of any kind. I passed my checkride 1st attempt however I had to really dig in the books to understand RNAV and all the things associated with an RNAV approach, LPV and more.

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