My checkride is two weeks from today. All the requirements are done and at this point I'm just polishing. The flying is pretty well polished though there are always improvements to be made. I'm taking the written on Tuesday and that's been a big struggle for me studying but I'm finally passing practice tests 100% of the time and scores are towards the 80's now. If anyone has little tips on the written I'd appreciate them.. like are the practice tests actually helping? Are they a good representation of the material that will be on the exam? I know they were with my PPL, just wanted to make sure the IFR is the same.
Now onto the scary part... the oral. I'm told my DPE is a stickler for icing - good, I can handle icing questions. But he's also a stickler for weather and planning. I can obviously plan a flight but sometimes I still need the legends to pick up symbols on the en-route or obscure ones on the approach plates... is that bad? What should I really know about weather? I know how to read the weather charts but I'm scared he'll give me some off the wall scenario that I'll have no idea about. My CFI says we're going to do a mock oral a couple days before the ride but I know it still won't be teh same because this DPE does LONG orals like 2+ hours (My PPL was that way too). I'd really hate to bust the ride on the oral portion. Any links or advice you all could give for this would help immensely.. I'm so ready to get this behind me and start building the time for my commercial! Not to mention I love flying IFR especially in busy areas like Phoenix and first trip will probably be to California
Now onto the scary part... the oral. I'm told my DPE is a stickler for icing - good, I can handle icing questions. But he's also a stickler for weather and planning. I can obviously plan a flight but sometimes I still need the legends to pick up symbols on the en-route or obscure ones on the approach plates... is that bad? What should I really know about weather? I know how to read the weather charts but I'm scared he'll give me some off the wall scenario that I'll have no idea about. My CFI says we're going to do a mock oral a couple days before the ride but I know it still won't be teh same because this DPE does LONG orals like 2+ hours (My PPL was that way too). I'd really hate to bust the ride on the oral portion. Any links or advice you all could give for this would help immensely.. I'm so ready to get this behind me and start building the time for my commercial! Not to mention I love flying IFR especially in busy areas like Phoenix and first trip will probably be to California