Private Pilot Practical Test Checkride Prep Guide

Worried About Passing your Private Pilot Checkride? Don’t Risk it!

Ensure you are 100% ready for your Private Pilot Practical Test with my ‘Private Pilot Practical Test Checkride Prep Guide.’ This guide is built on my 7 years as a full-time professional flight instructor and thousands of hours of instruction provided to hundreds of students.

Private Pilot Practical Test Checkride Prep Guide

My “Private Pilot Practical Test Checkride Prep Guide” provides everything you’ll need to know and do to prepare for your Private Pilot checkride in one concise, and easy-to-use guide.

It will prepare you for both the Private Pilot Oral test and Flight test portions of your checkride. Most importantly, it will help to ensure that you pass your checkride, and make you a safer pilot.

With this “Private Pilot Practical Test Checkride Prep Guide” you will learn exactly what the FAA wants you to demonstrate to the Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE), per the FAA Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards (ACS) requirements, to earn your Private Pilot Certificate.

This “Private Pilot Practical Test Checkride Prep Guide”, is developed specifically for the student pilot seeking an Airplane – Single Engine Land (ASEL) private pilot certificate. Its purpose is to provide not only a comprehensive preparation checklist for the private pilot practical test, but also to act as a guide on how the practical test is conducted, and what is expected of the student.

Specifically, it goes deep on topics that include:

  • How to be fully prepared for both the Oral and Flight portions of the Practical Test
  • A summary description of the Oral and Flight Portions of the Practical Test
  • What best describes a well-prepared student for the Practical Test
  • Key Technical subject areas that sink students during the oral portion of the test
  • Pitfalls during the oral portion that can cause a test failure
  • Recommendations on when, and when not, to proceed to the flight portion of the test
  • Key mistakes that sink students during the flight portion of the test
  • How the flight portion of the test is actually conducted
  • Letters of Discontinuance and Disapproval
  • A summary review checklist of the Private Pilot Aeronautical Experience Requirements

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Instructor Background – Mark Donovan

Mark was introduced to flying at an early age while hanging out at Hyde Field in Clinton, Maryland, where his father worked part-time as an A&P mechanic and flew as a private pilot. In 2011 Mark finally got around to earning his own Private Pilot Certificate. He immediately continued on with his training, acquiring his Instrument, Commercial, CFI and CFII ratings in both ASEL and ASES (Airplane Singe Engine Land and Sea) Category/Classes. He also has his commercial AMEL (Airplane Multi Engine Land) rating, and holds high performance, complex and tailwheel endorsements. Mark has worked as a flight instructor at Sky Bright’s Laconia Flight Academy since 2019 and has over 2,600 hours of flight time and has given over 2,000 hours of instruction.

Mark is also a member of the New Hampshire Wing Civil Air Patrol, where he is a Mission Pilot and Instructor/Check-pilot.

When he is not providing flight instruction or on a sortie mission with CAP, Mark can often be found flying his PA18-150 Piper Super Cub.