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Old April 5th, 2006, 18:38   #1
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Passed my CFI MEI initial today!! It was a tough checkride no doubt, but man does it feel good to get it done! Now its on to my CFI single add-on and CFII.
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Passed my CFI MEI initial today!! It was a tough checkride no doubt, but man does it feel good to get it done! Now its on to my CFI single add-on and CFII.
Congrats, and welcome to the CFI club. I just read a thread where you were stressing over this ride. I know the outcome, but was it as bad as you thought?
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man does it feel good to get it done!
Uh, yeah - just a little! Where'd you go, down to Florida or Atlanta for that?

Good luck with the add-on checkrides. Consider them a little downhill from that initial one though.
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Uh, yeah - just a little! Where'd you go, down to Florida or Atlanta for that?

Good luck with the add-on checkrides. Consider them a little downhill from that initial one though.
Ft. Lauderdale. Yeah I hear the add-ons are much easier. I'm still going to prep for them as best I can, I'd like to go home soon!
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Congratulations!

I didn't know you could get your MEI first, then add-on the I/II.
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Who did you have for your initial at FLL? just wondering
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Congrats, and welcome to the CFI club. I just read a thread where you were stressing over this ride. I know the outcome, but was it as bad as you thought?
It was pretty tough, but I think I was very well prepared. The only time I cracked open a book was to read him a reg. Everything else he asked me I just knew it and could explain it without looking it up. I think that impressed him a bit and he didn't make the oral as tough as he does for some people that I guess look up a lot of simple questions.

My ride was with Mr. Black. Really nice guy and very very thorough!! He taught me a few things too during the flight. I didn't fly like superman perfect, I did make a few little mistakes, but never went outside of PTS or compromised safety. Basically it came down to me talking and explaining a little more during the manuevers. I told him its tough to do that when I know he's evaluating my manuevers so I'm focused a little harder on them so I don't screw up, and that distracts me from explaining everything. He really wanted me to know the common errors for every manuever, and I don't have those memorized, I just tried to think of mistakes I've made and mistakes that could easily be made. All in all it was a good checkride. Now ATP has me couped up in an apartment in Jax waiting for my Citation ride tomorrow. Then tomorrow evening and all day saturday I prep for my single engine Commercial/CFI and I take both checkrides on Sunday in Atlanta. Then hopefully if all goes well, I'll be on a commercial flight home Sunday night! I just can't wait to go home, thats why I'm going to focus like crazy on not busting these last two add-ons I have to do down here. I'll do my II back home in NJ with a DPE.
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