Episode 446: Private Pilot ACS- Most Important Page

Well, we have three ground topics for the next three days of our 30 Days of 30 videos from the 30 checkrides we've seen over the last 30 months. Isn't it funny how the number three keeps coming up over and over? Here's one. And this is. Not only have I seen this throughout my career, but I can tell you. And I just verified this with the HOGS crew here. They knew exactly what I said when I said, they just asked, what's the video today? And I said the video is what is the most important page in the acs. And both Lindsay and Heather immediately chimed out the checklist on what you need for your checkride. Both of these girls knew that. So I'm going to call out.

Just about everybody that's been here. And this is in fun because here's the trend. And the girls verified this. I asked them, I said, how many people of these last 30 people that have been here, when they hear, when they arrive and they hear me go through this, how many people has everything they need? And they agreed. Almost nobody. Almost nobody shows up with what they need. Now at hogs, we have it covered because guess what? I order sectional charts ahead of time. I have several copies usually of all the different things that we need. Plus I have all of our, my tools and our tools. So we cover every checkride. When you come here, I basically have backups because I know people are going to show up without, without every single thing that they need. I know this. So we cover you, but fly by night job, low flight school probably isn't gonna. And then the day of the checkride, you can't take the test because you missed something on the checklist. So it's at the rear of the book. And we're gonna use the private pilot, for example. So this is private pilot ACS near the rear of the book, page 19.

This is a list of everything that you have to have with you the day of the test. And when somebody comes in here, we've got three or four days to get them ready and take a check right on Friday. So we really want you to have everything ready to go when you walk in the door.

I'm surprised about people that don't even know this page exist probably 50% or more. When I, when I say what's the most important page in acs? And they just start throwing out random pages or they just go, I don't know.

This goes back to the examiner I've been using for 25 years when I was brand new CFI, I said, hey, give me some tips. I'm a brand new cfi, you know, hey, I'm looking for some tips of, you know, how to be a better cfi. And the only thing he said to me, we're walking out to the helicopter to go fly. I just met him and luckily the people I worked for said, go out and fly with the examiner for an hour, get to know each other. So I asked him this question on the way to the aircraft and he said, well, you're familiar with the pts. I'm like, yep. He said, well, there's a page in there, it has a list of everything you need for the day of the checkride. Go through that with your students, make sure they know that page is there. Go with that, go through that with them several weeks ahead of time and make sure you have everything that you need. Because I have a lot of checkrides that don't happen because somebody doesn't bring something that they need. And I can tell you 25 years later, it's the same thing. And that's why we try so hard to start the check right off on a good note by having everything you need. Because obviously it's time wasted on everybody's part. Examiner's part, for driving to meet us, us getting up at 3 to 4 to 5am to be ready and prepared when we walk in the door, all the obstacles we go through to get ready. And then you don't have something on this list.

It'S not worth it. So what we do when they first come in, we go right down the list and I'll say, let's take a field trip. First things, aircraft documents, airworthiness and registration. We get up, we walk over and we pull them out and we physically look at them, make sure they're valid, make sure they're there, make sure you can see them, get to them, and we go right down the list. Aircraft maintenance records. This has been a problem for years and this continues to be a problem. And this is something that one of our examiners did. The top 10 examiner pet peeves, aircraft log books is one of them. Because people don't want to give them up. Owners don't want to let people have them, mechanics want to keep them locked away. And many times students didn't see them or get a chance to see them. And then the day of the checkride, you're hunting for them. That's not a good sign. So anyway, it's not that long of a list. It really only takes you about 10, 15 minutes to go through this and you have to go through a step by step. Just like I keep going back to just like kindergarten, right? Like when you get to medical certificate, I go, pull it out, let me see it. Oh, I've got it. I go, I know you've got it, but pull out and let me see it. Half. Sometimes they'll pull out a copy. I'm like, guess what? You can't take the checkride with a copy. You have to have your original or you have to go to the FAA and get one sent to you. You can't just have a copy of your medical. Won't work. It'll stop the checkride. I know, I've seen it happen. So going through that list in the acs, it's. Now, the ACS used to be the pts. It's the same basic list. It has everything you need. So again, I see it commonly and we've seen it over the last 30 months, people showing up and luckily we always, we're always able to put everything together because we have backups here for almost everything. But I'm not telling you that. So you just go, oh, well, hogs will just cover it. They'll have what I need. No matter where you're taking a checkride, anywhere in the world, you need to know ahead of time what you need to have the day of the test. It's. It's silly to not take the time to open one page and go through it step by step. All right, come back tomorrow. We're going to do CFI lesson plans tomorrow. I've got some input on what we've seen on some things that's happened with lesson plans with the CFIs we've done. And we've done a lot of CFIs in the last 30 months. We've probably done. I'll bet you close to half of our checkrides have been CFI checkrides. So subscribe this channel. Click that little bell so you'll be notified of other videos we have coming out. We appreciate all the feedback you've been giving us. People have been enjoying small, short, little kind of potent things like we're showing you now. It's about the basics. And you gotta learn the basics and keep the basics throughout your career. And a lot of people lose sight of that as they move, you know, forward in their training and their careers. Subscribe the channel, leave us a comment below and we'll see you next video. Peace out.

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