Kenny Keller says DPEs fail commercial helicopter candidates most often on the oral exam, not flying. They test deeper knowledge of equipment, currency, and privileges than private level, plus terminology like 'settling with power.' HOGS offers an AI tutor, free PDFs, and updated R22/R44 courses.
LP his question today is what is the most common deficiency your DPE finds during checkrides, specifically commercial, in both either oral or practical portions.
That's a phenomenal question. We almost never have a problem on a flight. Almost never. The problems that occur are knowledge, almost always knowledge, because you may or may not know. You have to. If you got your private, you'd know you got to do the oral portion before you can go get in the helicopter and do the flight. So if you don't get through the oral, you fail. You don't even get to fly. And as far as something repeated, just general knowledge, right? Like there's a vast amount of knowledge for the commercial, okay. And people think, oh well, I'm a private pilot already, right? I just need to know what I need to know for commercial. Kind of the wrong attitude to have, right? And a lot of times, like somebody's doing an add on pilot, they'll make the mistake of going, well, I'm already a pilot, I'm just doing an add on, right? So I, I just need to know the helicopter stuff. Well, not true. When you go in to do the trek ride, whether it's initial or an add on, they're going to ask you, okay, what do you have to have on you to go fly? What do you got to do to keep your license current? What do you got to have on the helicopter for day flight? What do you have to have on the helicopter for night flight? What are taps? How many times a day are they issued? They're going to go through all that stuff that you learned as a private pilot. It gets asked again at the commercial pilot level. The only thing that changes is privileges and limitations. That changes because your commercial pilot privileges limitations are of course different. And then they're asking you the same information on the commercial that they asked you on private, but at the private. The best way. We had one examiner explain this and we have it in one of our videos. We've showed this in several of our videos. And the examiner's words were, you know, if I ask you about settling with power in the private, as long as you got the essence of it and you have the elements, I in the verbiage is a little bit, you know, not the best, but you can get through it and you understand it can be good enough with the private. That same question about selling the power in commercial, that needs to be smooth. It needs, the terminology needs to be right. It needs to flow right off of your tongue. It's taking everything you learned at private and knowing it to a higher level at commercial and studying privileges and limitations. Hopefully that helps. And our clone is located@askhogs.com you can go below and click on the link to go check it out. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you can ask training related questions. Flight and ground 14 years of my contents loaded in this thing. Blogs, podcasts, videos, paid content, free content. There's over 6 million words piped into my clone. It's amazing. Go down below ask hogs.com the clone is free to everyone and the clone is also inside of our hog site on every video, every page. So you can be in viewing videos. And you can always ask the clone a question while you're at it so you can get an immediate answer first. Right here is free free PDF private pilot 101 helicopter training blueprint that's why we created this. And let me cover what's in the first chapter. Since you ask and you're at the beginning. That's why we created this. The first chapter are questions that we've. We took like the top 10 questions that we get all the time. Like is learning how to fly a helicopter difficult? How long will it take to become a private pilot? How much will it cost to become a private pilot? What is the best approach to selecting a flight school? What are the key differences between helicopters and fixed wing aircraft? How many tests will I have to take? How many hours for solo on the license? 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