Do you have a check right coming up and
are you looking for a way to make passing even easier
whether you're learning to fly and studying for your PPL
or private pilot license or you're
getting a new type writing the method
I'll teach you in this video works and I'll explain you the science behind it
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my name is Kelsey I'm a 747 pilot
today in this video
I'm gonna be covering how to study to successfully pass your checkride and
throughout this video I have three
secret tips I use to help make it even easier
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Preparation is one of the most important factors of aviation
preparing for a flight or preparing for any event in
aviation if you do your preparation and your homework
that's going to make the actual event a
lot easier where I excel is ridiculous
sickening work ethic the same applies
for your checkride I break my check rides into 3 parts
obviously you have your oral and your practical or
your actual flight portion of your examination
and the third part that I break it into
is dealing with your examiner
you want to set the tone of how
this examination is going to go you want
to give them zero excuses of why not to pass you
here's how you prepare when you
find out which examiner you've been
assigned get some gouge on them most
examiner's have specific things that they really like to focus on
whether it be regulations a system on the aircraft
or they like you to draw pictures you
want to find out what it is specifically that they like to ask
so you can put special detail in studying that
I had a guy once say to me that's like cheating
no that's like preparing if he wants to ask specific stuff
and you've done the homework and research to find out what it is that
he likes to focus on if anything else he's gonna say why this
guy took the time to prepare for this and again preparation is key
when you show up to the exam you want to be well dressed
you want to have all the documentation that they are going to want from you prepared and ready to go
if you have a logbook that the digital logbook
you want to have it print it out and in a nice binder so you can show it to them
if you have a regular logbook review it and have a friend review it
and see if there's anything missing or the totals aren't adding up
you want to give them everything so they say this guy's really prepared
something about an examiner that you may not know is that
their licenses are on the line as well when they pass you if they pass you and
have an accident or have an incident
they're going to be investigated and get
asked all kinds of questions about what
you
and what you did to pass you want to
give them zero down State you're gonna
be of any issue after that check right
and that point forward it's important
for you to set that tone when you go in
there and meet with them looking
presentable having everything in order
and everything prepared and they're
gonna say hey this guy's really prepared
and that's going to be a positive check
in your box the world portion of your
examination is usually going to start
with a little bit of small talk
generally the examiners are looking to
one get an idea of who you are hopefully
calm you down a little bit they realize
that you're nervous after you get
through the small talk and they get dull
say alright let's get started with your
exam now they're gonna start asking you
questions systems of the aircraft
limitations of the aircraft obviously I
can't go and tell you what each examiner
is gonna ask every examiner is different
every check ride is different however
here here are some general rules that
you can use to make the oral portion go
easier draw if you draw on paper on the
whiteboard or chalkboard or whatever is
in the room where you're at there's two
things that are gonna happen one if he
or she asks you electrical system of the
aircraft and you start drawing out this
is how the electrical system of this
aircraft works there's two things that
are gonna happen one it's gonna make it
easier for you to start visually seeing
the things that you've been reading
about and studying about for the last
several weeks or months and you're gonna
be able to start in remembering details
because you've looked at the schematics
if you've done your homework
you've looked at the schematics and you
know these are the different things that
are powered on these different systems
so if you start drawing it it's gonna
show the examiner wow this guy knows it
so well that he can draw it here's the
other thing that's gonna do it's gonna
chew up some time sir examiner has got a
certain unloaded amount of time that
usually they're able to do the exam the
longer you take is you go through that
process the more time you start chewing
up the less time they're gonna spend
digging into other aspects of your oral
exam the last tip about your oral exam
that's very important is to answer the
question that your
and nothing more what will happen in
some cases is the examiner will say how
does the landing gear come up and if
it's electrically been or hydraulically
or however it's powered that is your
answer
it comes up electrically done nothing
more if they want to ask more questions
about it they can ask more if he starts
asking you how does it come up
electrically and you started getting
into this very convoluted explanation of
how it all works more like than not he
understands the systems of the plane
better than you do that's why he's the
examiner so if you start getting into
all these very complex explanations he's
gonna start going okay and you're gonna
start digging a hole when they ask you a
question your response is that answer
nothing more now that takes practice
because every pilot all of us have been
studying hard and you're preparing for
this exam and so you've read deep in
every system to understand it it's human
nature to start trying to say everything
that you know about that because that's
what you get taught in school is when
you get asked to question it answer as
much of it as you can and you'll get the
most amount of credit possible that is
not true when it comes to these oral
exams oh my god it did is bad they ask
you a question you give that answer and
nothing more and just leave it there so
when he asked you that question how many
wings does the plane have your answer is
two and then you just stare at him he'll
probably laugh and then he'll he or she
will start asking more questions about
it but you want to answer each question
concisely if they want to know more
they'll ask more and that takes practice
so when you're going through your
flashcards or you're practicing with the
other pilot that you're studying with
practice those types of answers
limitations limitations that you're
going to have on the aircraft and
limitations for airspace that you're
allowed to go into or anything like that
here's what I do I make flashcards and I
don't use the paper flashcards
I used the digital flashcards I make
them either on your computer or on your
phone I use an iPhone and I have an iPad
so what I do is I make them on there and
it shares them on both that way no
matter where I'm at if I have 10 or 20
minutes and I'm waiting for my met
to a medical or I'm waiting for a friend
I have those flashcards with me all the
time and I can pull them out and I can
flip through them and look them over and
I break them in this I break them into
categories which you don't have to do
but have your flashcards out and there's
a lot of different apps they are free
put them in there and just start
reviewing them here's a secret tip when
preparing for your oral and doing your
studying obviously it's a lot of
information of process and regardless of
how many years you've been flying
everybody hates studying different
systems well I mean if you're me I
personally don't enjoy reading about
hydraulic systems or electrical systems
of an aircraft I do it because I want to
be good at what I do and I want to know
what I'm doing in my job but it's not
something that I think about at night
like man I can't wait till tomorrow and
I can read the electrical system when
I'm studying I listen to classical music
there's research that's been done that
shows in listening to classical music
Mozart is one that's really common if
you're listening to classical music that
will help your retention rate of what
you're studying so when I'm studying
flashcards or drawing different systems
of the aircraft I'm listening to that
type of music scientifically it's proven
that as you listen to that music your
retention rate is going to be higher I
am NOT the smartest guy what idiot oh so
I'm using every possible advantage that
I can to make this easier and and
smoother for me when I'm studying and
I'm doing preparing for my oral portion
whether it be limitations or practice
drawing the different systems of the
aircraft I listen to classical music you
can get for free listen to it off of
youtube listen to it off of Spotify and
you will find your retention rate is
going to be higher and again when you go
in there into the exam and he starts he
or she starts asking you questions
limitations and you have them right on
the tip of your tongue hey what's the
airspeed for this or what what are the
rules about this and you say and you say
it right away they're gonna say wow this
person has really prepared and that's
going to save you from getting deep into
that system or deep into a specific
thing if you start floundering and you
don't know and you can't
member those things all that's gonna
cause them to do is start to ask more
and more so on the first several
questions they asked you about a
specific system if you can say this is a
limitation regarding this system or this
airspace if you have that because you've
been reading it off of your flashcards
and practicing them is make the oral
portion or checkride go a lot smoother
and they're gonna be a lot happier with
where you're at in regarding your
preparation all right we don't the
flight portion of the exam is either
going to be done in a plane or in a
simulator either way it's the exact same
way that you prepare for it what you can
do is chair fly that's something that
you learn early in your career I
honestly didn't spend a lot of time
doing and I kind of brush it off if I
have whatever I don't want to do that I
chair fly for all of my exams now and
what I find is it prepares me and has me
and ready to go when it's time to
actually do the maneuver that
preparation is going to make your flying
portion of your exam a lot easier the
number of times that you keep practicing
and doing that specific maneuver the
more times you do it the easier it's
going to be when it comes to your check
ride it's going to be a lot smoother
here's my secret tip when it comes to my
flying check ride I chew gum yeah if
you're really nervous you generally
won't eat if you've ever had to break up
with a girlfriend or a boyfriend
and you've been freaked out about it and
you're really nervous you won't eat and
it will it that anxiety level gets
increased and your buddy doesn't isn't
hungry anymore what I do is I chew gum
chewing gum it naturally reduces the
anxiety left that you have and it calms
me down but I remember when I was early
in my career I would if I was gonna do a
really windy crosswind difficult
approach that I had to do or that I
wanted to do I would chew gum ohh
like a little 30 knot crosswind exercise
as the oldest ink the muscle and I would
just found it it would it would calm me
down
and I I don't know I felt like a boss so
that I was doing it and then I realized
that Iceman from Top Gun chewed gum so
obviously I mean that's it wasn't that
he was really good it was that he was
chewing gum chewing gum has been
scientifically proven to help reduce
anxiety so if you've done all the
preparation and you've chair flown and
you've gone over every single procedure
and you know it cold obviously when it
gets the time to fly in the simulator or
in the plane some people just get
nervous I still get nervous
most people get nervous it's just an
instinct if you're a pilot you want to
be good at what you do and you want to
successfully pass all this training and
stress you've gone through you want to
pass chewing gum will help you calm
yourself down I don't do it for the oral
portion of the exam because I think it's
rude to sit there and chew gum while
someone's talking to me but when I'm
flying I'll chew gum every time that's
my secret tip when you come down to the
practical portion of your exam choose
some gum and pass your check read here's
my third secret tip and I started doing
it the last two exam I find a song or a
couple of songs that gets me pumped up
and makes me feel really confident
the last checker that I did my 747 check
ride before I went in there I was
listening to Ice Cube
I think check yourself I don't know what
it was a couple weeks before my
checkride I heard it and I don't know it
got me pumped up and I liked it cousin
said check yourself before you wreck
yourself generally if you fail a check
ride you screwed yourself it's not the
examiner set out to fail you they want
you to pass you'll go in and you'll be
nervous or you didn't prepare or
whatever it is and you'll end up ruining
it for yourself there was something
about that video that hit home for me
and that song hit home for me I put it
on my phone and as I walked into the
training center for my 747 checkride
I had my headphones on and I was
listening to that song and something
about all everything I was just pumped
up and ready to go when I finished the
check ride one of the examiner said to
me yeah I see a live check rides you
really you really did a great job on
this I'm not saying that IceCube is
responsible for me passing my check ride
but
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me a DM okay crew that wraps up my tips
on how to successfully pass your check
ride now that that's done you
successfully passed your check ride what
do you do you go and party like Tyson
what you don't do is don't go get wasted
and take the plane that you just passed
a check right on and then go fly your
friends around in it
don't do that that is not good okay now
that you passed your check ride what do
you do go do something that you really
enjoy go have drinks with your friends
God have dinner with your family go out
and celebrate and enjoy all this hard
work that you've put in most people who
aren't an aviation won't know and
appreciate all the effort and stress
that you went through to pass feel free
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know that you passed after you passed
your check ride go out and do something
you really enjoy please come back here
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