CPS's Newest Commercial Pilot

[Patrick]

Congrats to Freedevil for passing his CMEL checkride today!

[Doug Taylor]

Excellent!

[Michael95U]

Good job Dev! PMEL, IR, and CMEL in less than 1.5 months.....not bad! Keep up the good work and I will be seeing you in the CFI class soon!

Michael

[IslandFlyer]

1.5 that is outstanding! Good job man, keep it up!

[mooneyguy]

Congratulations, Thats great!

[FL530]

It happens quick when you teach just what the examiner wants.

[Michael95U]

Originally Posted by FL530

It happens quick when you teach just what the examiner wants.

Thanks Tyler! You are right! The examiner is looking for well-prepared students who fly to Practical Test Standards! Mike Garrison did a great job examining Devil and Patrick did a great job preparing him to be a Commercial Multi Engine Pilot. He is off flying to the Badlands today.

Michael

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by FL530

It happens quick when you teach just what the examiner wants.

I'm not sure how you see instruction, but I know that with whatever student I am working with, it has far more to do with ensuring that they leave as a proficient and SAFE pilot than it is that they pass a checkride. This method of instruction has the added side benefit of giving the student confidence that whatever an examiner may throw at them during a checkride that he/she can complete the task. Case in point: we all know that partial panel work is required during an Instrument checkride. While it is unlikely that an examiner would give this on a checkride, Dev was 100% prepared to navigate to a VOR out of partial panel compass turns, and fly a VOR-A type approach that involved a hold- all on one engine (in a twin). As I expected, he was not asked to perform half of that during his checkride, but either way, I would hardly consider the instruction he recieved from me "teaching just what the examiner wants."

To Dev- Congrats on a job well done. We had a good time in the Badlands today! You need to post more often!!

[mooneyguy]

Congrats to you to Patrick! Job well done!

Tyler The sad truth is that ALL DPE's have "their way" of doing things and unfortunately you do have to teach the way the examiner wants it! Like it or not the examiner decides who gets a new certificate, or rating not the student or the CFI!

Flight training is set up to flow through the PTS. In the REAL word while flying an IFR flight you have more than 2 min to brief an approach, during a check ride you have to do 20-30 min of real world work in just a few minutes for each approach. So you have to teach a student how to fly the checkride!

[freedevil]

Thanks everyone and of course thanks CPS.

To Tyler, I was not told where my VFR diversion would be prior to my checkride. Like every other student I speculated about it. The rest of the checkride was the same as my PPL Multi Maneuvers held to a higher standard. Using your logic it was easy to pass cause the examiner told me about them beforehand.

ps: Badlands was awesome http://gallery.me.com/dev#100367