Commercial Checkride

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Overall, it was a fair checkride. The oral was about 2 hours, and the flight was 1.5. I'll post as much as I can remember from the oral.

Oral:
It started out by finishing the paperwork
What can you do as a commercial pilot?
What is holding out?
If a guy shows up and wants you to fly a friend somewhere can you take the flight? (Only if you are supplying your flying services and not the whole package)
What documents do you have to have on you?
What documents must you have for the plane?
What checks and maintenance are required for this airplane to be airworthy?
Is an elt required for this plane to be airworthy?
What do you do if you find a required piece of equipment to be inop at an airport without maintenance? (Get a special flight permit)
How do you get a special flight permit?
Show me in the maintenance logs that all the required maintenance has been performed.
What currency requirements must you meet to make a flight with passengers? At night?
Explain Hypoxia, Hyperventilation, Carbon Monoxide poisoning.
What do you do if you are on a flight with some really pretty girls and one of them starts complaining about having ear problems when you descend? (instruct them to yawn, Valsalva maneuver, etc.)
Why is she having ear problems? (Congestion and eustachian tube not opening)
Shes still complaining and its not working, now what do you do? (Climb back up and have her clear her ears the whole way down)
Tell me about the engine on this airplane.
Tell me about the flaps on this airplane.
Tell me about the landing gear on this plane.
Tell me about the prop on this airplane.
What is the first indication of carb ice on this plane? (Drop in manifold pressure)
What should you do if the engine runs rough after carb heat is applied? (hes big on this one since he once turned the carb heat back off and had to make an emergency landing)
Show me your xc flight planning.
Why did you pick the cruising altitude you picked?
How much fuel is needed? With VFR reserve?
Read a metar and a TAF.
We went over a couple different weather charts.
The weather looks good lets go fly.

Flight:
Started on XC and got a groundspeed and eta.
We have to divert now(at this point he let me use the gps to get the nearest airport and eta)
Slowflight with a couple different heading changes
Power-off Stall
Power-on Stall
steep turns
lazy-8s
simulated emergency landing
8's on pylons
Normal landing
soft field take-off
soft field landing
short field takeoff
short field landing (50' obstacle at the numbers, land at the 1000ft markers)
normal takeoff
poweroff 180 (we had to do 2 360's in the pattern to get enough space to perform the landing)
"If you don't hit anything on the way in, then i think you are now a commercial pilot."

I hope this can help some of you preparing for your checkride. I know reading some of the other checkride reviews has certainly helped me!