Rental Checkout

[nkoenig]

I'm getting checked out in a 172 sp and was curious what exactly happens on a checkout? I'm sure it differs from place to place i'm just wondering what you guys do on a checkout.

[meritflyer]

Originally Posted by nkoenig

I'm getting checked out in a 172 sp and was curious what exactly happens on a checkout? I'm sure it differs from place to place i'm just wondering what you guys do on a checkout.

Maneuvers, landings, emergencies.

[MSNFlyer]

When I check someone out in a new airplane I go over systems, speeds and W&B with them on the ground at least. Then in the air some slow flight, stalls, emergencies, maybe steep turns and landings and then landings . If it is just a currency check we just do landings.

[MidlifeFlyer]

I like to fly on vacations and have been checked out in different places a bunch of times. In my experience, there is some small variation, but almost all have involved a written quiz on systems and some regulatory basics, and a flight running between 1.0 and 1.5 that focused on performance (slow flight, stalls and steep turns), emergency procedures and landings.

If it's away from home, you might ask for some help with basic familirity with the geographic area.

[triplec76]

Originally Posted by MidlifeFlyer

If it's away from home, you might ask for some help with basic familirity with the geographic area.

This would be especially true if you were renting somewhere mountainous when you have no mountain flying experience. My DPE touched on that quite a bit during our oral since he knew I was moving to the eastern midwest a few weeks after the checkride. He wanted to stress that my students would now be within a full tank of the mountains, so it wouldn't hurt to stress this more than I would with a student from where I was living at the time, Iowa.

[MidlifeFlyer]

Originally Posted by triplec76

This would be especially true if you were renting somewhere mountainous when you have no mountain flying experience. My DPE touched on that quite a bit during our oral since he knew I was moving to the eastern midwest a few weeks after the checkride. He wanted to stress that my students would now be within a full tank of the mountains, so it wouldn't hurt to stress this more than I would with a student from where I was living at the time, Iowa.

That's true. In fact, there are areas where there are special checkout requirements. Many FBOs on the Colorado plains will not let you take their rentals into the mountains without a specific mountain checkout. Some FBOs in souther California will not let you take their planes to Catalina without a Catalina checkout. I once came across a school on Long Island that required a water checkout before letting you take their planes out to Block Island or the Massachusetts Cape islands. And the same is probably true in other places as well.