Great pilots have all their bases covered. If you don't come to an oral exam with all of your bases covered then you have no business being awarded A Private Pilot certificate. For me it was a great opportunity to prove my capabilities to an examiner. Worst case scenario is that I fail and I have to go back and do more homework and try again the next time. There is absolutely nothing to fear.
@@daveshangar6820 A few things. For some, these exams are a bit stressful because they don't know what to expect. Another giant problem is that many airlines only allow one failed checkride. That includes PPL, Commercial, Instrument, multi, and possibly CFI if you went for it. Failure isn't much of an option for a PPL, in this situation.
I watched this video before and after I became a pilot. I came again here to listen to this guy one more time to see if I can understand now 🤣 and yes I do and I feel good. It’s too easy guys if you want to be a pilot just go for it. Good luck
@@capt_jack9949 ok thats good to know. My ground school said for diversions just plug it into the gps. Im like ok cool, but what if he asks me to donit manually.... is that still a thing?
Max Sperlich yes it can be. The examiner might fail the GPS on you because they’re trying to test your pilotage skills, but there’s no harm in using it up until the point it “fails.” Same goes for an ipad with foreflight. After a while they may tell you that your “battery has died”
+Bobby Creager He didn't know the mandatory beacon rule and the examiner had to prod him three different times to choke up the word "detonation," (for high engine temps), but the DE finally had to ask, "have you heard of detonation?" I think this is legit.
This man has helped lots of people advance their aviation careers and he gave me my instrument checkride almost 10 years ago.......Allan retired off the B773 and was typed in many different jets. He will be missed by myself and countless others in the Chicago area. RIP.......
pwkpilot hello there.. It's really nice you had the honor to meet this gentleman... He was a very honorable man.. I have finished all of my flight requirements for private pilot and im awaiting a mock checkride, then a check ride.. I have been using this video to prepare for my oral..
I like the examiner, he asks a lot of practical questions without making the student nervous, he sounds more like a curious passenger than an examiner. I have my CPL helicopter check ride coming up and I hope my examiner is like this. ;)
Took mine a few months ago. All I can say it's just like this, he'll ask almost the same questions but he won't be that scary you'll probably get a nice guy. Examiners want you to get your private license so they won't asking anything too hard and don't expect you to know everything because nobody is perfect. Relax have fun and you'll get you Private certificate at the end of the day
I disagree. My DPE asked me trick and very difficult questions. Even more difficult than this oral. My oral was 3.5 hours. It was also closed book. Not allowed to look the FAR-AIM or other FAA material.
Wow! Even after all these years , this video still is the best checkride oral I have ever seen on YT! Possibly touched on any question a DPE will throw at you for your real PPL oral test. I just passed mine watching this video over and over again. My biggest tip is just pause and answer the question to yourself out-loud as if this was your DPE in real life. Helped me out a lot!!
Is that really hard though?... These questions are pretty basic. You are loosing electrical power. What would be a likely explanation? ... my alternator doesn't work... ok, and what does that means? Well... means I'm running on the battery! So I'll be out of charge momentarily... What can you do to increase the time you have? Shut down all non-essential, electrical components like radio #2, lights, etc... Will you be able to use flaps? Depends on the aircraft, but this is a basic cessna, and these have electric flaps, so no, no more flaps for you. Etc. I feel like most of these questions are actually logic more than anything else... Same thing with the pressure questions... Why would an altimeter gain a thousand feet overnight without the plane moving? Well as you go up, the pressure decreases. So if the altimeter indicates you are high than you actually are, thats because the atmospheric pressure dropped during the night! This is all just logic!
Obviously there are thing that just needs to be learned too that you can't just deduce from your logic, I'm not saying this is 100% easy, however, I really don't think this exam was THAT hard. I would love to see the same exam, but for an ATPL, like boeingdriver29 mentionned I'm sure THAT would be hardcore as hell!
This was a training video produced by Airway Flight Services back in the 90s for the benefit of their student pilots. AFS was based at Palwaukee (PWK) airport which is now Chicago Executive. Bill, the "student," was one of the CFIs. E. Allan Englehardt was the designated pilot examiner for my private and instrument checkrides. RIP.
PhilHorace this makes so much more sense. It’s nearly impossible for a private pilot candidate to nail every single question without any hesitation like this kid does.
@@homertalk Englehardt died of prostate cancer in 2016 at age 69. He retired from United Airlines in 2007 as a Boeing 777 pilot and also worked as a DPE out of Chicago Executive Airport since the 1990s.
@@chrisd2076 That is really sad. Was he as thorough and spot on as he was in the video? I am at SWA. I skimmed through this just to see what I could remember from this level as he asked questions. It killed some time in the dealership while getting an oil change. Haha! It was that or watch Judge Judy on the TV in the waiting lounge.
@@jblee344 It is impossible. You are absolutely right. It was probably scripted as well. That being said it's a great tool to study with and good to have all the answers correct so a student prepares accordingly. The reality is that a student will stumble through some of these questions. I hate orals!
When I did my private practical 20 years ago, I had a really good oral exam. When going out to the airplane , I started my spiel with something like. "As I walk up to the airplane, I like to take a good look as I walk up and look for anything that might cause concern...." The examiner said, "O.K. that's fine. Now, this is not rocket science, so let's just focus on doing the preflight and flying. I will ask you for any questions I have." In other words, shut up and just do what you are going to do without sounding like you actually know something at 63 hours. LOL!
Just passed my check ride, and this video was a MASSIVE help! The oral portion was almost identical to this. Felt very prepared after watching this a dozen times :)
Toxic Anomaly Nervous as hell whenever my CFI even brought it up lol. I delayed it a bit too, was in no hurry to fly by myself! They won't let you go until they are sure you are ready. If they say you are, you are. Trust them :) Also, don't get over zealous and flat spot a tire like I did on my final landing during solo ;) Just fly like you have been up to this point and you'll do fine.
+mdbuehler I was the exact opposite actually in my case I couldn't wait to solo and I was so excited as a 17 year old kid at the time I remember getting in the airplane and getting Clarence to taxi doing ally checks and double checking everything then getting clearance to take off then since I live in Oregon I flew around the rogue valley out of the 5 mile radius of our class D airspace and I was just amazed and so excited about it all.
I feel like I have to say, for those of you who are viewing this video in preparation for an imminent oral exam, that this is a pretty unrealistic expectation. To say this examiner was thorough would be an understatement. I've never in all my years of flying heard of an oral like this. Extremely in depth for a candidate who was very well prepared. Generally speaking, if you do well on the written, and get off to a good start on the first few questions of the oral, the entire thing should take 30-40 minutes, on average.
At times I feel like this is set up as a training session. Hope my oral isn't this in depth but you never know. I have been studying both asa and gleimm for my written but I suck at tests...hopefully I do good
bman2101 Agree totally, never had an oral like this. It also feels outdated in terms of the new style of situational scenarios. Plus the candidate seems unusually articulate on the answers, I know flight instructors that don't explain things that concisely. The fact that they recorded this at all makes it seem like a training tool.
Wow, was there an accident?, he seems pretty young in the video but I realize that it's the 90's time frame. He was very well-read. He was very prepared.
@@jstMir such a great examiner, i wonder how many he had to flunk out ? and once out what the % of them that retried and flunked out a 2nd time, 3rd time, etc.
@@TheSisi786 Really? Mine was never scripted (I wish it was). My C.F.I and my examiner both grilled me so hard during my own Oral Exam ..... Yes, oral exams can be as tough as this one.
Its not as bad. This was an overblown oral. It will over prepare you. The "student" is an instructor in real life. The Examiner was an actual Examiner but they rehearsed this and it was scripted. They made it this clean and thorough to provide the student a study guide and a way to prepare for the exam. It can go a lot less smoother than this and the examiner can still consider the student meeting standards and well prepared.
Hahaha he shouldn’t be freaked out by this it’s still a great journey to undergo. It’s rigorous simply because a lot goes into flying an aircraft, all these topics that were reviewed here in the examination will be learned periodically and he’ll have more than enough time throughout the course! I hope he continues the journey it’s worth it!! Good luck to your son!
@@skywarrior28 Mine was never scripted (I wish it was). My C.F.I and my examiner both grilled me so hard during my own Oral Exam ..... Yes, oral exams can be as tough as this one.
No, being a Doctor is hard. The private pilot is easy compared to anything medical. Heck, Hard to even figure out how to maintain my own body and keep all the gauges in the green so I can fly.
It was a lot less thorough. Except for the obvious stuff (required inspections, instruments, and main safety stuff), make sure you have a strong understanding of weather resources and the sectional.
It's fun to go back and see this video again. Allan was a member of our club and his enthusiasm for teaching aviation was unsurpassed. He was known as a tough DPE, as were other 777 Captains, but he was so giving of his time to ensure we all knew our "stuff". We are all better pilots because of the bar he set and we achieved because of his help. We miss him and will never forget him. And thanks to this video, we can still learn from him.
As long as you study, it's pretty simple. My examiner was fantastic - UPS 767 Captain, which helped since we had a common love for airliners. He basically pulled up sections from the PTS he had to test me on, read through them - then asked me questions on the subject that was on the screen. I studied weather the least and that showed - but not bad enough to fail. Also my mind went blank when he asked where do I find the AD's!! The rest of it I had been through so much, it was like repeating it to my CFI again. It really is like a conversation - which mine included a lot of very, very silent and awkward moments. That's meant to be something he does to see if you'll continue talking and berry yourself ha. Just keep it simple, don't panic if they stop speaking after you've answered! The flying part of it I forgot he was next to me at times. I put the wrong squawk in on the ground - SoCal corrected me on departure and I concurred, no big deal. The departure was completely different to what we planned due to traffic, but no problems there. Eventually got through Ontario's charlie airspace to do the maneuvers in Rialto. The airport I did my short/soft field stuff at, had the sun level straight down the runway. So admittedly I was almost guessing the soft field landing and got lucky. The CTAF was the same as French Valley's and there was tons of traffic there, none at our airport. So I kept going to say "French Valley Traffic" rather than Rialto ha. Thankfully I stopped myself saying it when it was at the tip of my tongue.... If you get yourself in the right mind set, it's a really fun but challenging day out flying. The most rewarding one yet for my career!
Watching this makes my stomach ache. Been there done that, was the most stressful days of my life but also the most exciting and fulfilling as well. Love flying.
Guys, I had the same exact reaction you did when watching this video for the first time. I know I can't speak for every DPE, but the experience I had for my check ride oral portion wasn't NEARLY as in depth as this. Get yourself an ASA - Oral Exam Guide book by Michael D. Hayes, look through it a little every day and you will be fine! And don't be afraid to ask the examiner to re-phrase a question. He or she should be happy to!
I cannot believe I just spent an hour and a half watching a test I will never take. It was just so interesting and a great insight as to what pilots have to know and how much effort is spent making sure they know it. Jusy a fabulous video, and thank you to textsa for posting.
"What would you do if there was a thunderstorm over the airport and the pilot ahead of you reported a 30 kt loss?" "Well Allan, I'd just say fuck it, let's rock and roll and crab that puppy at full power into a nice ramp strike."
This was the most helpful video for my test! I watched it about 10 times, memorized all of it, and then went in very confident! Would definitely recommend
I remember watching this years ago before I knew anything about what they’re discussing now as a soon-to-be ATP applicant, Citation Sovereign pilot, it’s amazing to reflect on how much I’ve learned and how easy this oral exam would be for me now.
I had the honor of listening to Captain Englehardt at Airway flight services at palwaukee airport, 1990s. He was truly an icon on the aviation and meaningful aviation training.
He was my instructor for a long weekend ground school in the mid ‘70’s. He was fantastic! As I said it was a long weekend, however his presentation kept the class glued to their seats. I could not say enough great things about him. I do remember hearing he was very active at PWK.
Well, I have taken seven check rides over the last few years and besides my Initial CFI. I have never had to elaborate in such great detail on systems and operations; nor have I been able to answer every question flawlessly. This video is a great learning tool, but don't fool yourself into thinking this is what is expected of each private pilot applicant. "Perfection is not the standard" straight from the mouth of my FAA DPE on my CFI check ride.
Did you by any chance go through ATP Flight School? The time frame you've taken your check rides in is reflective of ATP lol plus I've heard that saying at ATP many times
Took my check-ride today (did fine), I watched this video at least dozen times. It was similar questioning, but more relaxed and not as detailed follow-up questions. Learn this video, I was much more at-ease having watched this. If you can answer these questions, you will have it no problem. Know the charts!!!
Passed my Check-ride almost a month ago and watched this video everyday for a week before my check-ride and the oral was much easier then expected! Remember o feel free to use you FAR AIM thats why its there!
So, I just passed my check ride in late July. This video really helped me out! The young man in the video was like having instant correct answers to every question. Highly recommend this video. Thank you for the video!
I love this video. I'm a private pilot and I come back to this video occasionally and go through it as a refresher, answering the questions before the student does who then confirms my answer. It's more entertaining than reading my very lengthy notes. Very thorough exam and very good job on the part of the student.
Had the pleasure of meeting Allen. Amazing aviator and great guy all around. Learned more from him in an hour than my instructor all semester. Truly a shame he passed. F
The comments on this video amaze me. It's awesome to see how many pilots just want to help other pilots. The aviation community will always be the most laid-back and supportive group of people I've ever had the pleasure of being apart of. Love you all.
Airline Transport Pilot Certificate #1695899 - Type rated: Boeing 747-400, Boeing 757, Boeing 767, Boeing 777, Falcon 10. Damn right hahaha, 5k hours on the 777
I am just starting to take my ground school and this video haunts me. I am sure that after school and testing I could manage some of those questions, but i would be intimidated for sure.
By way of contrast. My oral exam was, "what's this thing?" I answered "that is the oil cooling radiator" ..."Okay you passed". ..And that was it. That was in the mid 70s. But the examiner talked to me the whole time while in the flight test. It took 48 min.
Renewing my license one time, I happened to be demoing an aircraft in our factory demonstrator to a CFI to see if their airschool wanted to buy it. I mentioned whilst flying I had to do the renewal for my license in the next few days. He replied, "you just showed me how to execute a perfect hammerhead stall, half cuban and a flick roll in this thing, just give me the papers, and I'll sign you off". I replied "but I haven't shown you my cross country skills yet". Lol, aviation.
First time I saw this, it was the most daunting thing I ever endured. But that was at the beginning of my in depth research. As I learned more I realized that, this conversation is one of the most professional representations of a the aviation profession.
Some people are scared of the flying portion of the check ride, for me the scariest part was the oral. If you're scared of the flying portion means you're not ready to be a private pilot. This video is probably 33% the reason I passed the check ride. The other 66% was studying for the written and from my notes. The other 1% was luck.
Same... The oral is the scariest portion. The flight has its own stresser, but ultimately, the flight is the least of my worries. Just stay within PTS for all the maneuvers... The oral can be so ambiguous. I passed my Private Pilot checkride several years ago at this point. I'm about to do the commercial pilot checkride. I wish there was a video for that.
+ERAUPRCWA please let me know if you find one, I'm barely starting my instrument, but I'd like to plan ahead and have the commercial ready, because these videos are really really helpful.
Absolutely WRONG. If you're scared of the oral or flying (because you aren't 100% familiar with the answers/procedure) you shouldn't be a pilot. I hope you're not flying around with only 90% of the knowledge. Good luck with the FAA in that case. You'll be meeting them soon. Like someone said above it's normal to be nervous on tests. It's human instinct. You want to pass.
I can't stress enough to private pilot students how important it is to be prepared for the oral portion of the checkride. WIth that said, 90% of examiners will not conduct an oral to this extent. Most examiners base their oral exam on how the student performed on the written, and how well the first few questions go. The examiner should know fairly quickly if you're prepared. If you struggle to answer a question, or don't answer it thoroughly, be prepared for several followup questions. Answer every question this way, and the oral gets deep and lengthy very quickly. On the other hand, if you're squared away, knowledgeable, friendly, and conduct yourself like a professional, the oral can be over with in under 60 minutes. Again, this is entirely based on the examiner, but is typical from my experience.
S4 Aviator Well said. I watched this whole video and to me these questions were extremely tough and too in-depth especially the answers the student is giving were too dead on which makes me think this video is staged. We're students and we shouldn't get drilled with questions like that because we're still in a learning process.
This is a terrific example and source of review AFTER you have studied your coursework. I believe this may have been developed as a training video by a couple of flight instructors, or examiner and instructor. Either way it is a terrific reference and I appreciate the person who posted this.
This young man has had a long and prosperous flight career. He did a fantastic job. He also show me just how much I need to know. Thanks for this dated but excellent video
I’m hoping to be able to do half as well as this kid did on my oral exam! He had the answers to everything and was able to explain his answers precisely and accurately. Awesome job!
Wow what a great video resource this is. I've watched this a few times, stopping after each question and I try and answer it myself. Thank God for this video!!
Just took my private pilot checkride yesterday...I passed and this video def helped a lot but at the same time I wasn’t asked nearly as many questions! It was still good to be prepared using this video!
I recently passed my oral/check ride and I found this video VERY helpful in preparation. Not specifics but overall attitude of being consummately prepared. I recommend watching it a couple times.
Brings back memories of how my checkride was many years ago. Funny how some things are still the same but how much different they are these days at the same time. Much of the knowledge is similar, but the whole process is seems much more different these days in how the questioning and presentation is. It's more on the student presenting the information and less on the student waiting for the examiner to ask a question. Much more knowledge is needed these days too which require the student to study much more!
+Yoann Anthony hey man, you don't usually need anything from school to obtain a PPL, but you will obviously need a good understanding of maths, physics and English to be able to understand the training's course-ware and to pass the exams. These days, the hardest part of getting your license is paying for it :p good luck bro
+Yoann Anthony if you have any knowledge of physics and maths that would help. ppl is arite but once you move a step ahead then it will be more of a challenge. and you need to have class 1 medical as well.
+A380 Domingo just have the money to pay for the training. The school will do the rest to train you, and also it requires the effort you put into studying.
i had my checkride yesterday. My oral was over 2 hrs long. Watching this video about 20 times helped me pass it. I also converted this video into an MP3 to listen to in my car. Trained hard, studied hard, and passed my check-ride.
When I was working for my PPL, I had watched this video and I was surprised and worried about my test that would be able to take an hour and half, because english is not my language. However my oral took almost 3 hours. good memory.
I knew Allen. We crossed paths a number of times over the years including a CFI renewal clinic he officiated about 15....maybe 20 years ago. I didn’t always see eye to eye with Allen, but he was a good guy as well as a highly competent and a respected DPE. He was tough....but thorough and fair. You can see a snippet of his fairness when the student failed to answer the night currency requirement properly but Allen stepped him through it without making him nervous or uncomfortable. “Good and dark”.....yup, that’s the point. No BS. He was rare breed of ATP that was actually committed to aviation (including General Aviation) and was not full of himself. The Aviation community....especially those of us here in the Chicago area, were very sorry to see him go.
For a private pilot planning a cross-country flight in a Cessna 182, this pilot's range and depth of knowledge is staggeringly extensive. Would think it would dissuade anyone thinking about becoming a private pilot.
Just passed my checkride this week! My oral was probably about two hours but my answers were not as in depth as his were. It's true what they say, don't talk yourself into a hole! Answer what they ask and that's it!
By far the best ppl checkride videos I have ever come across. Wish the examiner I go with is as chilled out as this one .. especially the appreciation on good responses by the other CFI(pun intended). Learnt immensely watching this video.
Almost 3 hours, that is how long mine went for. I was later told that he was trying to find something I would get incorrect. He didn't. 100% on the written, no mistakes on the oral, fantastic on the flying, but my landings were less than stellar. I told him, "I think it's not windy enough. All I have been doing is practicing landings on windy days, and today is calm." Learning to fly was the greatest thing ever though. Anyone considering it, should get it done!
Scariest horror movie i've ever seen
dont do it Haa!
It’s a little bit different than a horror movie ! The black guy doesn’t die first!
Just wait until I take it! 🥵
Lol
ikr that does seem scary man
*Warning: this video may cause an increase in heart rate for those about to take their first check ride.
Great pilots have all their bases covered. If you don't come to an oral exam with all of your bases covered then you have no business being awarded A Private Pilot certificate. For me it was a great opportunity to prove my capabilities to an examiner. Worst case scenario is that I fail and I have to go back and do more homework and try again the next time. There is absolutely nothing to fear.
@@daveshangar6820 A few things. For some, these exams are a bit stressful because they don't know what to expect. Another giant problem is that many airlines only allow one failed checkride. That includes PPL, Commercial, Instrument, multi, and possibly CFI if you went for it. Failure isn't much of an option for a PPL, in this situation.
Yeah, I'm one of them right now.
Yyyyyy
You weren’t wrong
"I'm from the FAA, and I'm here to help you." 😂
Yeah right... FAA: f*** all airmen
@@brandondye7774 "Friends Against Aviation"
Dory oh my god so funny!
Yeah, that did stand out. Lol!
"We aren't happy, until you aren't happy."
I watched this video before and after I became a pilot. I came again here to listen to this guy one more time to see if I can understand now 🤣 and yes I do and I feel good. It’s too easy guys if you want to be a pilot just go for it. Good luck
How did you pay for it though? Like I don''t have 100k lying around
@@joshcoyne2983 it’s not 100k
@@joshcoyne2983 I don’t think I think it’s like 10k
Hey I’m trying to get my private pilots license and this is scarring the crap out of me
@@lightningentertainment7574 whats scaring you? the cost or this video?
"How would you calculate that?" Well, I'd pull out my iPhone, there's an app for that.
D Kuhlman I’d also ask Siri Lol
are you allowed to use foreflight or tech on checkrides now?
@@Maxmilion6004 I always tell my students to use every available tool until the examiner takes it away
@@capt_jack9949 ok thats good to know. My ground school said for diversions just plug it into the gps. Im like ok cool, but what if he asks me to donit manually.... is that still a thing?
Max Sperlich yes it can be. The examiner might fail the GPS on you because they’re trying to test your pilotage skills, but there’s no harm in using it up until the point it “fails.” Same goes for an ipad with foreflight. After a while they may tell you that your “battery has died”
Camera man needs a FAA approved certificate for staying calm in that scary room
Either this dude is the most prepared student or he's an instructor. I would have failed this oral exam
shit, im taking my universities mini version of a checkride and this guy made me look like im on lesson 1
Zero hesitation. Nails every question.
+Bobby Creager He didn't know the mandatory beacon rule and the examiner had to prod him three different times to choke up the word "detonation," (for high engine temps), but the DE finally had to ask, "have you heard of detonation?" I think this is legit.
Bobby Creager $
@@caverpilot He missed that question and he let him get away
bill...have you ever seen a grown man naked?
hahahah the vibe forsure.
😂😂😂
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Best movie ever
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Well, Mr. Anderson. As you can see we've been watching you for quite some time...
Lol
my name...is NEO
Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill.
This man has helped lots of people advance their aviation careers and he gave me my instrument checkride almost 10 years ago.......Allan retired off the B773 and was typed in many different jets. He will be missed by myself and countless others in the Chicago area. RIP.......
pwkpilot hello there.. It's really nice you had the honor to meet this gentleman... He was a very honorable man.. I have finished all of my flight requirements for private pilot and im awaiting a mock checkride, then a check ride.. I have been using this video to prepare for my oral..
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He was my grandpa
@@Joseph-lu2hn really? Was he an airline pilot?
Which one is Allan?
Rip to Mr. Englehardt. I'm sure he'd be well pleased to know that he is continuing to help many more men and women become pilots even posthumously!
I like the examiner, he asks a lot of practical questions without making the student nervous, he sounds more like a curious passenger than an examiner. I have my CPL helicopter check ride coming up and I hope my examiner is like this. ;)
I like the confidence of the student, without being cocky. You have no reason to be nervous...rgds, your instructor.☺
MacJen McCarthy What I am more nervous about is stalkers on the internet HAHA ;)
Don't have time to stalk...it comes up automatically...and I may be old but I can still spot a pimple on a giraffe at 1000m 😂
MacJen McCarthy lol
Big Boofman oof no reply
Took mine a few months ago. All I can say it's just like this, he'll ask almost the same questions but he won't be that scary you'll probably get a nice guy. Examiners want you to get your private license so they won't asking anything too hard and don't expect you to know everything because nobody is perfect. Relax have fun and you'll get you Private certificate at the end of the day
Thats what i needed to hear thank youu
Dude I’m so glad you said this, it put my mind at ease and helped me relax
I hope you’re not being sarcastic
I disagree. My DPE asked me trick and very difficult questions. Even more difficult than this oral. My oral was 3.5 hours. It was also closed book. Not allowed to look the FAR-AIM or other FAA material.
throwback to the time when i watched this 2 years ago...im in the airlines now thanks to this video
yeah......bs
L Troyer not really a bs. I am in school for 3 year for B.S. in Aeronautical and professional pilot for airline as short as 3 year.
@@astudentpilotlife I was more talking about the the "thanks to this video" part
Watching this video many years ago was the reason I was able to grow a mustache.
advise for a student pilot like me? My parents don't think being a pilot is marketable. Can I get a job right after my training?
Wow! Even after all these years , this video still is the best checkride oral I have ever seen on YT! Possibly touched on any question a DPE will throw at you for your real PPL oral test. I just passed mine watching this video over and over again. My biggest tip is just pause and answer the question to yourself out-loud as if this was your DPE in real life. Helped me out a lot!!
Good, I can see you're well prepared, perfect answer, that's exactly correct. Its like pulling off a chain combo in a video game.
If driver's licenses were this hard to get, no one would be driving...
It's for a good reason PPL's are so hard to get though
Try getting a driver's license in Germany...
@@dodgeplow it is quite easy tbh I am visiting a grammar school right now and getting your drivers license is not a challenge compared to that
Nick Vanni try an ATPL.
Is that really hard though?... These questions are pretty basic. You are loosing electrical power. What would be a likely explanation? ... my alternator doesn't work... ok, and what does that means? Well... means I'm running on the battery! So I'll be out of charge momentarily... What can you do to increase the time you have? Shut down all non-essential, electrical components like radio #2, lights, etc... Will you be able to use flaps? Depends on the aircraft, but this is a basic cessna, and these have electric flaps, so no, no more flaps for you. Etc.
I feel like most of these questions are actually logic more than anything else... Same thing with the pressure questions... Why would an altimeter gain a thousand feet overnight without the plane moving? Well as you go up, the pressure decreases. So if the altimeter indicates you are high than you actually are, thats because the atmospheric pressure dropped during the night! This is all just logic!
Obviously there are thing that just needs to be learned too that you can't just deduce from your logic, I'm not saying this is 100% easy, however, I really don't think this exam was THAT hard.
I would love to see the same exam, but for an ATPL, like boeingdriver29 mentionned I'm sure THAT would be hardcore as hell!
This was a training video produced by Airway Flight Services back in the 90s for the benefit of their student pilots. AFS was based at Palwaukee (PWK) airport which is now Chicago Executive. Bill, the "student," was one of the CFIs. E. Allan Englehardt was the designated pilot examiner for my private and instrument checkrides. RIP.
PhilHorace this makes so much more sense. It’s nearly impossible for a private pilot candidate to nail every single question without any hesitation like this kid does.
Who died?
@@homertalk Englehardt died of prostate cancer in 2016 at age 69. He retired from United Airlines in 2007 as a Boeing 777 pilot and also worked as a DPE out of Chicago Executive Airport since the 1990s.
@@chrisd2076 That is really sad. Was he as thorough and spot on as he was in the video? I am at SWA. I skimmed through this just to see what I could remember from this level as he asked questions. It killed some time in the dealership while getting an oil change. Haha! It was that or watch Judge Judy on the TV in the waiting lounge.
@@jblee344 It is impossible. You are absolutely right. It was probably scripted as well. That being said it's a great tool to study with and good to have all the answers correct so a student prepares accordingly. The reality is that a student will stumble through some of these questions. I hate orals!
When I did my private practical 20 years ago, I had a really good oral exam. When going out to the airplane , I started my spiel with something like. "As I walk up to the airplane, I like to take a good look as I walk up and look for anything that might cause concern...." The examiner said, "O.K. that's fine. Now, this is not rocket science, so let's just focus on doing the preflight and flying. I will ask you for any questions I have." In other words, shut up and just do what you are going to do without sounding like you actually know something at 63 hours. LOL!
I wish I had an examiner like this dude! Brief, straight forward, and gets satisfied quickly
Like my last girlfriend.
Just passed my check ride, and this video was a MASSIVE help! The oral portion was almost identical to this. Felt very prepared after watching this a dozen times :)
+mdbuehler Congrats
+I like to fly stuff Thanks! :)
am about to get my solo and am nervous af were you nervous?
Toxic Anomaly Nervous as hell whenever my CFI even brought it up lol. I delayed it a bit too, was in no hurry to fly by myself! They won't let you go until they are sure you are ready. If they say you are, you are. Trust them :) Also, don't get over zealous and flat spot a tire like I did on my final landing during solo ;) Just fly like you have been up to this point and you'll do fine.
+mdbuehler I was the exact opposite actually in my case I couldn't wait to solo and I was so excited as a 17 year old kid at the time I remember getting in the airplane and getting Clarence to taxi doing ally checks and double checking everything then getting clearance to take off then since I live in Oregon I flew around the rogue valley out of the 5 mile radius of our class D airspace and I was just amazed and so excited about it all.
I feel like I have to say, for those of you who are viewing this video in preparation for an imminent oral exam, that this is a pretty unrealistic expectation. To say this examiner was thorough would be an understatement. I've never in all my years of flying heard of an oral like this. Extremely in depth for a candidate who was very well prepared. Generally speaking, if you do well on the written, and get off to a good start on the first few questions of the oral, the entire thing should take 30-40 minutes, on average.
At times I feel like this is set up as a training session. Hope my oral isn't this in depth but you never know. I have been studying both asa and gleimm for my written but I suck at tests...hopefully I do good
bman2101 Agree totally, never had an oral like this. It also feels outdated in terms of the new style of situational scenarios. Plus the candidate seems unusually articulate on the answers, I know flight instructors that don't explain things that concisely. The fact that they recorded this at all makes it seem like a training tool.
At my flight school, Aerosim, orals are anywhere between 2.5-4 hours long on average.
Alex Dupre that's a long time. The examiner that I will be going with apparently has long oral tests too. I'm nervous
Alex Dupre i agree. Here at UND the check ride oral is about 2-4 hours as well.
I knew and flew with this gentleman, Mr. Alan Englehardt. A true professional and stand up guy. He is truly missed! RIP Alan!
Wow, was there an accident?, he seems pretty young in the video but I realize that it's the 90's time frame. He was very well-read. He was very prepared.
@@dabneyoffermein595 Cancer
@@dabneyoffermein595 Alan is the examiner, apparently he was lost due to cancer sadly.
@@jstMir such a great examiner, i wonder how many he had to flunk out ? and once out what the % of them that retried and flunked out a 2nd time, 3rd time, etc.
Thumbs up if you used this video to get ready for your PP oral exam !
Not quite there yet
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I'm pretty sure both these guys are CFIs that agreed to do this video.
GeneralSirDouglasMcA Thank you, Captain Obvious.
TheSisi786 not really, he got a couple wrong, that's why the examiner ask some of the question twice in different way. he was just well prepared
I didn't even pick up on that
@@TheSisi786 Really? Mine was never scripted (I wish it was). My C.F.I and my examiner both grilled me so hard during my own Oral Exam ..... Yes, oral exams can be as tough as this one.
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My son is just starting his private pilot course. After watching this entire exam I'm thinking that becoming a Dr might be easier.
Its not as bad. This was an overblown oral. It will over prepare you. The "student" is an instructor in real life. The Examiner was an actual Examiner but they rehearsed this and it was scripted. They made it this clean and thorough to provide the student a study guide and a way to prepare for the exam. It can go a lot less smoother than this and the examiner can still consider the student meeting standards and well prepared.
Hahaha he shouldn’t be freaked out by this it’s still a great journey to undergo. It’s rigorous simply because a lot goes into flying an aircraft, all these topics that were reviewed here in the examination will be learned periodically and he’ll have more than enough time throughout the course! I hope he continues the journey it’s worth it!! Good luck to your son!
@@jorgenunez5669 Well said
@@skywarrior28 Mine was never scripted (I wish it was). My C.F.I and my examiner both grilled me so hard during my own Oral Exam ..... Yes, oral exams can be as tough as this one.
No, being a Doctor is hard. The private pilot is easy compared to anything medical. Heck, Hard to even figure out how to maintain my own body and keep all the gauges in the green so I can fly.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
He’s coming right at us!!!!
This is 100% spot on how my oral was at ERAU. I fly for an airline now.
Belated Congratulations. Dream career.
I'm using this video to study for my oral exam next week, and it's older than me!
I'm just prepping for mine now. Was your exam similar to this?
It was a lot less thorough. Except for the obvious stuff (required inspections, instruments, and main safety stuff), make sure you have a strong understanding of weather resources and the sectional.
ThatRosco458 and im about to take my oral next week, my instructor names is roscoe haaa
+SinForTheSaint ..pliz help me..how to become a pilot
For starters, don't crash.
It's fun to go back and see this video again. Allan was a member of our club and his enthusiasm for teaching aviation was unsurpassed. He was known as a tough DPE, as were other 777 Captains, but he was so giving of his time to ensure we all knew our "stuff". We are all better pilots because of the bar he set and we achieved because of his help. We miss him and will never forget him. And thanks to this video, we can still learn from him.
What was his cause of death?
As long as you study, it's pretty simple. My examiner was fantastic - UPS 767 Captain, which helped since we had a common love for airliners. He basically pulled up sections from the PTS he had to test me on, read through them - then asked me questions on the subject that was on the screen. I studied weather the least and that showed - but not bad enough to fail. Also my mind went blank when he asked where do I find the AD's!! The rest of it I had been through so much, it was like repeating it to my CFI again. It really is like a conversation - which mine included a lot of very, very silent and awkward moments. That's meant to be something he does to see if you'll continue talking and berry yourself ha. Just keep it simple, don't panic if they stop speaking after you've answered! The flying part of it I forgot he was next to me at times. I put the wrong squawk in on the ground - SoCal corrected me on departure and I concurred, no big deal. The departure was completely different to what we planned due to traffic, but no problems there. Eventually got through Ontario's charlie airspace to do the maneuvers in Rialto. The airport I did my short/soft field stuff at, had the sun level straight down the runway. So admittedly I was almost guessing the soft field landing and got lucky. The CTAF was the same as French Valley's and there was tons of traffic there, none at our airport. So I kept going to say "French Valley Traffic" rather than Rialto ha. Thankfully I stopped myself saying it when it was at the tip of my tongue.... If you get yourself in the right mind set, it's a really fun but challenging day out flying. The most rewarding one yet for my career!
Luke, everywhere I go on the internet, you seem to be there too. Surprised we haven't met irl.
This is like watching Stephen Hawking do a physics exam
Looks like he will be chillin' in cedar rapids for his first stop. Maybe he'll find Hillary...
Watching this makes my stomach ache. Been there done that, was the most stressful days of my life but also the most exciting and fulfilling as well. Love flying.
Sounds like you have retired
I'm fucked
I feel the same as you.
Tuppoo94 lmao I share the sentiment
Guys, I had the same exact reaction you did when watching this video for the first time. I know I can't speak for every DPE, but the experience I had for my check ride oral portion wasn't NEARLY as in depth as this. Get yourself an ASA - Oral Exam Guide book by Michael D. Hayes, look through it a little every day and you will be fine! And don't be afraid to ask the examiner to re-phrase a question. He or she should be happy to!
Same
Tuppoo94 study study study
I cannot believe I just spent an hour and a half watching a test I will never take. It was just so interesting and a great insight as to what pilots have to know and how much effort is spent making sure they know it. Jusy a fabulous video, and thank you to textsa for posting.
why won't you take the test? never say never my friend.
"What would you do if there was a thunderstorm over the airport and the pilot ahead of you reported a 30 kt loss?"
"Well Allan, I'd just say fuck it, let's rock and roll and crab that puppy at full power into a nice ramp strike."
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Excellent examiner! You can tell he takes his job seriously and loves what he does!
This was the most helpful video for my test! I watched it about 10 times, memorized all of it, and then went in very confident! Would definitely recommend
This is what I see when I wake up with sleep paralysis
Same
I remember watching this years ago before I knew anything about what they’re discussing now as a soon-to-be ATP applicant, Citation Sovereign pilot, it’s amazing to reflect on how much I’ve learned and how easy this oral exam would be for me now.
I had the honor of listening to Captain Englehardt at Airway flight services at palwaukee airport, 1990s. He was truly an icon on the aviation and meaningful aviation training.
He was my instructor for a long weekend ground school in the mid ‘70’s. He was fantastic! As I said it was a long weekend, however his presentation kept the class glued to their seats. I could not say enough great things about him. I do remember hearing he was very active at PWK.
At 44:00... "And 7500 if a guy wants me to take him to Cuba..." Haha
There are no jokes about squawk 7500. even if you don't mean it , don't do it.7500 should always be treated with respect in a post 9/11 world
lol
You can tell it’s pre-9/11 because that’s his first thought when he thought of hijacking.
7500= for awesome fighter jet escort.
Dallin T 😂😂😂😂😂😂
For An HOUR AND A HALF?!?!? OMG YOU NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING!
Well, I have taken seven check rides over the last few years and besides my Initial CFI. I have never had to elaborate in such great detail on systems and operations; nor have I been able to answer every question flawlessly. This video is a great learning tool, but don't fool yourself into thinking this is what is expected of each private pilot applicant. "Perfection is not the standard" straight from the mouth of my FAA DPE on my CFI check ride.
Did you by any chance go through ATP Flight School? The time frame you've taken your check rides in is reflective of ATP lol plus I've heard that saying at ATP many times
Never,ind I thought you said 7 check rides in the past few months
I used this video to study for my check-ride. It helped tremendously! I earned my PPL today!
Took my check-ride today (did fine), I watched this video at least dozen times. It was similar questioning, but more relaxed and not as detailed follow-up questions. Learn this video, I was much more at-ease having watched this. If you can answer these questions, you will have it no problem. Know the charts!!!
Watched this video to help prepare for my oral. I passed and felt over prepared! Just study good and you'll do fine!
Passed my Check-ride almost a month ago and watched this video everyday for a week before my check-ride and the oral was much easier then expected! Remember o feel free to use you FAR AIM thats why its there!
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Hi Jack, Can’t Talk, On fire!
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75 man with A knife, 76 radio nix, 77 pray to heaven ;)
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and yet the only question i missed on the knowledge test was what 7500 means
So, I just passed my check ride in late July. This video really helped me out! The young man in the video was like having instant correct answers to every question. Highly recommend this video. Thank you for the video!
I love this video. I'm a private pilot and I come back to this video occasionally and go through it as a refresher, answering the questions before the student does who then confirms my answer. It's more entertaining than reading my very lengthy notes. Very thorough exam and very good job on the part of the student.
Had the pleasure of meeting Allen. Amazing aviator and great guy all around. Learned more from him in an hour than my instructor all semester. Truly a shame he passed. F
why there is no such oral exams for politicians?......and no one ask questions about that....LOL
The comments on this video amaze me. It's awesome to see how many pilots just want to help other pilots. The aviation community will always be the most laid-back and supportive group of people I've ever had the pleasure of being apart of. Love you all.
i'd bet some money this guy a flying a 777 now... lol
He isn't (He's my dad) he stopped flying
www.salvilaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/e_allan_englehardt1.pdf
why he stopped flying?
The examiner passed away
Airline Transport Pilot Certificate #1695899 - Type rated: Boeing 747-400, Boeing 757,
Boeing 767, Boeing 777, Falcon 10. Damn right hahaha, 5k hours on the 777
Yes.., this looked like a horror movie and felt like one too.. but I’m glad this is over.. this video helped a lot
I am just starting to take my ground school and this video haunts me. I am sure that after school and testing I could manage some of those questions, but i would be intimidated for sure.
By way of contrast. My oral exam was, "what's this thing?" I answered "that is the oil cooling radiator" ..."Okay you passed". ..And that was it. That was in the mid 70s. But the examiner talked to me the whole time while in the flight test. It took 48 min.
Renewing my license one time, I happened to be demoing an aircraft in our factory demonstrator to a CFI to see if their airschool wanted to buy it. I mentioned whilst flying I had to do the renewal for my license in the next few days. He replied, "you just showed me how to execute a perfect hammerhead stall, half cuban and a flick roll in this thing, just give me the papers, and I'll sign you off". I replied "but I haven't shown you my cross country skills yet". Lol, aviation.
First time I saw this, it was the most daunting thing I ever endured. But that was at the beginning of my in depth research. As I learned more I realized that, this conversation is one of the most professional representations of a the aviation profession.
Some people are scared of the flying portion of the check ride, for me the scariest part was the oral. If you're scared of the flying portion means you're not ready to be a private pilot.
This video is probably 33% the reason I passed the check ride.
The other 66% was studying for the written and from my notes.
The other 1% was luck.
Same... The oral is the scariest portion. The flight has its own stresser, but ultimately, the flight is the least of my worries. Just stay within PTS for all the maneuvers... The oral can be so ambiguous. I passed my Private Pilot checkride several years ago at this point. I'm about to do the commercial pilot checkride. I wish there was a video for that.
+ERAUPRCWA please let me know if you find one, I'm barely starting my instrument, but I'd like to plan ahead and have the commercial ready, because these videos are really really helpful.
That's like saying "If your scared of the driving test, you shouldn't be driving." It's normal to be scared of tests!
Got my ass kicked on the oral with a particularly tough examiner. Way more scary than the flying.
Absolutely WRONG. If you're scared of the oral or flying (because you aren't 100% familiar with the answers/procedure) you shouldn't be a pilot. I hope you're not flying around with only 90% of the knowledge. Good luck with the FAA in that case. You'll be meeting them soon. Like someone said above it's normal to be nervous on tests. It's human instinct. You want to pass.
seems as if the FAA guy is working himself up to the question he really wants to ask. "Hey Bill would you like to come camping naked with me?"
+Mike Neuman 2015 Award Winner for "Best CZcams Comment"
Lol! I don't know about that Santiago but thanks.
+Mike Neuman I've seen this video like 3 or 4 times this past months, and every time I thought the same, but you were able to phrase it.
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+Mike Neuman 2016 best comment XD
I can't stress enough to private pilot students how important it is to be prepared for the oral portion of the checkride. WIth that said, 90% of examiners will not conduct an oral to this extent. Most examiners base their oral exam on how the student performed on the written, and how well the first few questions go. The examiner should know fairly quickly if you're prepared. If you struggle to answer a question, or don't answer it thoroughly, be prepared for several followup questions. Answer every question this way, and the oral gets deep and lengthy very quickly. On the other hand, if you're squared away, knowledgeable, friendly, and conduct yourself like a professional, the oral can be over with in under 60 minutes. Again, this is entirely based on the examiner, but is typical from my experience.
S4 Aviator Well said. I watched this whole video and to me these questions were extremely tough and too in-depth especially the answers the student is giving were too dead on which makes me think this video is staged. We're students and we shouldn't get drilled with questions like that because we're still in a learning process.
Thanks for sharing this video, a great tribute to Capt. Alan and his legacy and contribution of keeping the skies safe.
Come back to this every once in a while and realize how much I've forgotten every time.
This is a terrific example and source of review AFTER you have studied your coursework. I believe this may have been developed as a training video by a couple of flight instructors, or examiner and instructor. Either way it is a terrific reference and I appreciate the person who posted this.
I sort of think it was staged, since so many of the answers were correct the first time out, but it's a good video all around.
This guy killed it. I bet he could have tested the instructor afterwards and upon comparison of the scores the student's would be higher.
This young man has had a long and prosperous flight career. He did a fantastic job. He also show me just how much I need to know. Thanks for this dated but excellent video
I’m hoping to be able to do half as well as this kid did on my oral exam! He had the answers to everything and was able to explain his answers precisely and accurately. Awesome job!
That freaking exam is over an hour and a half and this guy's been a machine this entire time!
This video made me feel like the most unprepared student ever. Taking my check ride in a few weeks.
You got this!!
Wow what a great video resource this is. I've watched this a few times, stopping after each question and I try and answer it myself. Thank God for this video!!
I learnt more watching this than doing anything else. Both are very professional and inspiringly knowledgable.
I've had my certificate for 2 years now and this video still makes me nervous!
The Key is to say "Well, uhhh" before your answer
Just took my private pilot checkride yesterday...I passed and this video def helped a lot but at the same time I wasn’t asked nearly as many questions! It was still good to be prepared using this video!
This video is priceless for anyone preparing for the test. Thank you so much for posting it.
I watched this twice. And passed my checkride today. It was very helpful.
Those were perfect answers. You seemed to be very well prepared.
I recently passed my oral/check ride and I found this video VERY helpful in preparation. Not specifics but overall attitude of being consummately prepared. I recommend watching it a couple times.
Brings back memories of how my checkride was many years ago. Funny how some things are still the same but how much different they are these days at the same time. Much of the knowledge is similar, but the whole process is seems much more different these days in how the questioning and presentation is. It's more on the student presenting the information and less on the student waiting for the examiner to ask a question. Much more knowledge is needed these days too which require the student to study much more!
hey guys i will be starting my private pilot license soon wish me luck. these tutorials are the best
+Bisal Dhakal hey bro how did you get pilot certificate etc.. i mean what school certificate you need?
+Yoann Anthony hey man, you don't usually need anything from school to obtain a PPL, but you will obviously need a good understanding of maths, physics and English to be able to understand the training's course-ware and to pass the exams. These days, the hardest part of getting your license is paying for it :p good luck bro
+Yoann Anthony if you have any knowledge of physics and maths that would help. ppl is arite but once you move a step ahead then it will be more of a challenge. and you need to have class 1 medical as well.
+A380 Domingo just have the money to pay for the training. The school will do the rest to train you, and also it requires the effort you put into studying.
GOOD PERFECT ANSWER "I will ask you another question"😂
Been watching this for weeks now preparing for my check ride. I FINALLY got to go today and I gotta say this was a huge help.
i had my checkride yesterday. My oral was over 2 hrs long. Watching this video about 20 times helped me pass it. I also converted this video into an MP3 to listen to in my car. Trained hard, studied hard, and passed my check-ride.
When I was working for my PPL, I had watched this video and I was surprised and worried about my test that would be able to take an hour and half, because english is not my language. However my oral took almost 3 hours. good memory.
Passed my check ride, this video was invaluable
I knew Allen. We crossed paths a number of times over the years including a CFI renewal clinic he officiated about 15....maybe 20 years ago. I didn’t always see eye to eye with Allen, but he was a good guy as well as a highly competent and a respected DPE. He was tough....but thorough and fair. You can see a snippet of his fairness when the student failed to answer the night currency requirement properly but Allen stepped him through it without making him nervous or uncomfortable. “Good and dark”.....yup, that’s the point. No BS.
He was rare breed of ATP that was actually committed to aviation (including General Aviation) and was not full of himself.
The Aviation community....especially those of us here in the Chicago area, were very sorry to see him go.
I passed my checkride today. Thank you so much for your videos and channel. Your videos were a ton of help with achieving this goal.
For a private pilot planning a cross-country flight in a Cessna 182, this pilot's range and depth of knowledge is staggeringly extensive. Would think it would dissuade anyone thinking about becoming a private pilot.
Just passed my checkride this week! My oral was probably about two hours but my answers were not as in depth as his were. It's true what they say, don't talk yourself into a hole! Answer what they ask and that's it!
By far the best ppl checkride videos I have ever come across. Wish the examiner I go with is as chilled out as this one .. especially the appreciation on good responses by the other CFI(pun intended).
Learnt immensely watching this video.
Good to see AL! He gave me my ATP check ride out of PWK back in the 90's. Great man......... rest in peace!
I feel like all of us aviations people watched this once in lifetime lol
"Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
Almost 3 hours, that is how long mine went for. I was later told that he was trying to find something I would get incorrect. He didn't. 100% on the written, no mistakes on the oral, fantastic on the flying, but my landings were less than stellar. I told him, "I think it's not windy enough. All I have been doing is practicing landings on windy days, and today is calm." Learning to fly was the greatest thing ever though. Anyone considering it, should get it done!
This is a superb instructional video. Lots of information given succinctly. Watch it lots of times and you will be a much better pilot.
This kid is epic! Must have a hell of a study regimen.
staged film