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Checkrides: Pass Your Checkride First Time - Easily
Paperback
CareersAviation InstructionGeneral Education
Publisher: Live Cowards Club, LLC
Published: Apr 22 2026
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
CHECKRIDES by veteran flight instructor Jim Davis is the practical flight test guide focused entirely on what happens in the aircraft - from the preflight walk-around to the post-flight shutdown drill. While other guides prepare you to answer questions on the ground, this one prepares you to perform in the air, where the test is actually won or lost.
Compatible with FAA Private and Commercial practical tests, and applicable to Flight Reviews for already-licensed pilots.
Covers:
- Preflight inspection and cockpit checks - what to do, what to say, what examiners notice first
- Ground handling, run-up, and vital actions
- Takeoff, climb, turning, and cruise - with common faults identified
- Stalls, incipient spins, steep turns, and spiral dive recovery
- Engine failure during and after takeoff
- Forced landing and precautionary landing with full pattern procedures
- Crosswind operations and sideslipping technique
- Basic instrument flying under the hood
- Cross-country navigation, VOR use, diversion procedures, and flight log keeping
- Normal pattern, joining the pattern, and landing - what the examiner is marking at each stage
- Full post-flight and engine shutdown procedures
- Mnemonic checklists for every phase of flight
- Standard FAA handling tolerances by maneuver
If you've put in the study hours and you're ready to fly the test - this is the book that closes the gap.
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