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Old July 7th, 2004, 15:14   #1
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Passed today! Flew 2.6, about an hour of actual, four approches, two hours of oral, another 45 minutes of post flight paperwork. Whew!!!

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Old July 7th, 2004, 16:08   #2
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Congrats!

Now let's hear a gouge.
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Old July 7th, 2004, 21:03   #3
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Congrats! Good work.

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Geeze, why is everyone getting their CFII all of a sudden? Or am I just noticiting it more since I just earned mine?

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Old July 7th, 2004, 21:16   #4
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You're not imagining things. Just look at the topic titles in this forum.

That's good stuff though. I'm going to be starting my CFII shortly here, so it'll be really helpful to see some good gouges.
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Old July 8th, 2004, 13:58   #5
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Congrats!!

Whew...2.6 in the plane??
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Old July 9th, 2004, 14:13   #6
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That's right! 2.6!

For the gorund I had to explain the three most important things on an enroute chart (altitude x3!), and brief an approach. He kept asking questions until I was stumped and had to look up the answer. We talked about descents and when to go below MDA, about what different lights mean, and about descending to within 100 feet of the TDZE (91.175 stuff).
Very relaxing oral exam.

An hour of actual, flew a cross country to an airfield outside of the ADIZ here in DC, he flew an ILS and I critiqued, I hand flew an ILS to a touch and go, we went around for a coupled ILS and got slam dunk vectors due to some weather coming in, so I never captured the glideslope.
At the FAF I declared that since we didn't have the GS, and there was no way we could do a coupled approach, and there was no way I could get the GS and stay stabilized, I would shoot to localizer minumums.

He thought a second and said that's good logic and go with it.

On the way back to HEF we did unusual attitudes, etc. We go the GPS into HEF and flew that for a straight in landing.
We went up again and he wanted to see what I thought category A circling distances were and I showed him. Abeam the numbers he took away my engine and said that this is one reason we stay close!
I did a power off landing and we went to the ramp.

He also showed me some instructor moves to get the controls from a student. One in particular was to grab the throttle from below, pushing the student's hand away. You can also use some elbow there if the student is bigger than you.

Overall a good experience and a successful one at that!
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Two point friggin six?!? I'd just about have done TWO ii checkrides in that! RiddlePilot just to let you know... my examiner asked me more on TERPS than anything else; actually the instrument book linked to from www.igot.net is really good. He had a computer in the room where we did the oral and I showed it to him for bonus points after he said he was trying to find a 'new instrument book on terps' and I said hmmm... think I've seen that one! Ha, after that we flew
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