MauleSkinner

And you still can’t come up with the logbook requirements for your Private checkride?

The civil Airmen certificates are skewed. I don't know how they get their data but all the DPEs I talk to have pass rates well below...

Bluntly, your instructor should be preparing you for a checkride with any DPE.

Work backwards from the runway with your desired speeds/descent rates. The altitude for base leg is predicated on turning final in an...

I agree. The OP's post here does really tie all of his/her previous posts and topics together nicely, doesn't it? Actually it makes it...

So where I work, at the ATP level, how would you justify a 30% bust rate with this pattern? I would consider 10% to be above any...

A 30% bust rate isn’t “all kinds of things can happen that would cause a candidate not to pass.” A 30% bust rate is “the result of...

True… but as pilots, we can’t control the operator, we need to ensure things are done correctly on our end. Operators with more...

Not beyond mine and a couple of DPEs who have chimed into conversations with similar rates.

Artificial demand is also created when 30% of applicants need at least one retest.

Presumably the proper BOW would have been used for planning purposes, and the discrepancy noted when they programmed the FMS…it keeps...

Cool. The recommendation to lie about meeting regulatory requirements (a federal criminal offense too) puts all your other questions in...

But it’s very clearly defined in 61.51, “(d) Logging of solo flight time. Except for a student pilot performing the duties of pilot in...

With probably a couple hundred “real” circles in jets, my 7 missed approaches (not from circles) were more traumatic.

They may have been working pilots, but that does not make them professional.