3 LAST MINUTE tips to ACE your IFR check ride

Of course I dont have the full info, but your student’s failure at Watsonville sounds fishy. How does one transition from that hold to the arc for the next approach? Did the examiner just told him to find his own way to the IAF? Many instructors and examiners try to be too creative and make up bogus instructions.

Excellent

Thanks for the tips Jason! Have my second time to pass tomorrow. Hopefully the hold won’t screw me up again 😬

I'm doing my IFR training in a 172 without any GPS onboard. I could do it in another club plane with advanced avionics, but I want to do it old school. I think it's better. Guys have safely flown in the clouds for nearly 100 years using that technology.

Jason I'm looking forward to getting my IFR rating soon and I have a ways to go yet before I start flying

If I was out where you are I would differently have you as my Personal CFII

The more avionics I have is what I would have to demonstrate to the Examiner on my checkride so a simple all needle and Ball steam gauge Skyhawk with the Garmin 430

Our local check airman likes to fail gps systems on the over reliant.

This is awesome info! Thanks Again Jason!

Your passion for teaching "The Finer Points" of flying is contagious! Great tips! (Those clips of you flying by the SFO Bay Area make me miss my days flying there, FYI...)

Working in CFI-II add-on. Wish i had you as my instructor. Thanks for the tips

Question:: If I have a G530or 430... as well a the full set of steam gauges and analog radios....then when would I use my GPS during a checkride? I have been told that some DPE like to see a student who knows how to toggle btwn glass and steam. Will the examiner simply ask, "ok lets see you set up an ILS using this fancy dig box"....? (love that jam...sort of a Santana kinda sound)

Great video! Hey where can I get that checklist? I fly a 172SP

great advise,
great tips,
great videos.
Keep up the good work!

I love the true passion you have for teaching, and your explaining and editing and speech is all so great, keep up the awesome work! From a pilot with 85 hours, about to dive into IFR, your videos help reassure and guide me through my flight training journey :) EDIT: here the night before, incredibly nervous, not quite in my car listening, but close(:

Having just started working on my instrument rating, thank you for this. I've already found what it's like to get behind and it's incredibly stressful and uncomfortable.

I’m a few hours from my IFR checkride. I love this channel!

You mean this isn't Flight Chops :hmm: ?

GPS has a lot of holes. Got tired today of trying to figure how to create a few user waypoints on the ground based on VOR. Just let it go for now. Learned how to do it enroute and got gud.

I’m taking this ride a week from Friday. The algorithm’s timing is on point.

Instrument FLT training for fixed wing add-on starts in one week...thank you for supporting aviation students through videos!

Planning for my practical, great tips!

A lot of nice points but having a backup on a ILS or steam gauage is a good idea. Sure hitting the GPS can cause problems

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KWVI is my home airport! haha nice video man, should help with my upcoming Checkride!

Constructive Suggestion: please watch (and Listen to) Av Web channel, January 2017, during which presentation Paul Bertorelli quotes us Experts as saying: "Good Audio Makes Good Video." [You have Failed your Audio Check Ride. Why? Because you are Not Using either a ClipOn or Lavaliere-style Microphone.]

Ps. That examiner was a dick. Asking for an IAF 22 miles away and fly a DME arc. Wtf!
Most examiners know dme arc is outdated and purely a checkbox item.

These tips were great! Thank you for sharing 😃

Thanks for your educational video - I'm a bit confused, which sequence of the 5T's are correct - [ Turn, Time, Twist, Throttle, Talk ] or [ Throttle, Twist, Turn, Time, Talk ] Seems like CFIIs teach it differently? Or am I missing something? - I do a lot of 'Chair Flying"

Hey Jason! I remembered watching this video a while back. I pulled it back up because I’m taking my check ride in a couple hours!

I really appreciate all the content you put out! Not sure if you remember from last fall but I was struggling a lot with landings and emailed you. I’m absolutely killing it on crosswinds now. My CFII’s are always happy with my technique every time 😄

Steam gauge IFR check ride in 1980. Aced it without a tablet or G1000. Try doing a holding pattern (unpublished) with a single nav/com from a VOR intersection. I was trained to do this at night .You young pups have it made.

Thanks, check ride in 24 hrs ....

All three tips are bang on. Just on the cusp of flying my ride in Canada and these resonate strongly. Thanks Jason!

What an awesome video Jason! Your presentation is spot on! I hope to be starting my instrument as soon as my uncles plane gets some decent instruments, so your tips are just in time! Keep em coming!

Regarding point #1, what did your student press to head toward a mountain? The other IAF is right in the middle of a valley that the ILS proceeds down, seems pretty safe...

Great advise. Thanks

If he had flown 107° for 22 NM, then arc at 22 NM to the localizer and if he didn’t have a DME, then he would had to use the GPS, no? But he would have had time, if at least he headed the right way

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Thank you for sharing that checklist tip, I always have it on my kneeboard and tend to get off my altitude or lose my heading. I’ll be sure to use that next time I fly

Communicate everything! 1000/500/100 ft to minimums, don’t take your foggles off until your examiner says, say where you are and how you plan to shoot the approach!

got recommended this on my way to checkride, and passed🎉 thank you

This belongs alongside “Children of the Magenta.”

When I first saw this I asked here, where can I buy a laminated checklist? Nobody was able to give any suggestions. Here is where to buy one: Buy yourself an inexpensive color printer and make one yourself using your favorite word processing editor and your POH. Then when you are happy with it, take it to FEDEX/KINKOS and laminate it. By the way, laminating machines and lamination pouches are now super-cheap online. I bought one of those too. Alternatively, get a roll of clear packaging tape and use that to "laminate" your self-made full-color checklist card. That's what I originally did, then used it in the airplane a few times, made a few small corrections to the text, then printed a new one and laminated it for real. Been using it for a year now.

Sooo.... having the awful, loud, annoying, unnecessary and unprofessional background music playing while you're talking? Instant Fail!! This is a teaching video. Talking is primary. Nobody gives a crap about your playlist. Do you have music playing while you are teaching your flight students?? So why do you play music during this video??
You would never be my flight instructor.

I'm going to pretend you timed the flyby outro perfectly like a Thunderbird performance.

A Vietnam era pilot friend called the throttles “event levers.” Pull them back, and things don’t happen so fast.

hi brother , you just described my warrior too, and I'm trying too pass my IFR check ride soon too!! thanks

What a great idea to hold your info next to the instruments. It's a duh moment. Lol

On my checkride, the examiner overbooked himself and expected me to rush my exam so he can to his next appointment. Not cool. He was rude and mean. I was in my lsst approach, it's now dark out. I slowed the plane down so not to be behind, I was nervous. He started screaming, "Why are you slowing down! I have to get back! “. (mind you, he arrived 30 minutes late)....not a fun experience being pushed and rushed especially during an IFR CR. I passed but he was upset and almost shaking whilst signing the pass slip. It was hard not to take it personal but now I laugh and remind myself, I'm the PIC. I did a great and safe approach and brought us both home safe as the newest IFR pilot.