FAA CHECKRIDE ORAL EXAM PREPARATION - PRIVATE PILOT - DAUFAAORALP | Classifieds - Wed 14 Dec 2011 09:02:06 PM UTC

FAA Checkride Oral Exam Preparation - Private Pilot - DAUFAAORALP

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This software is intended for all pilots who are contemplating taking an FAA Practical Oral Test (more commonly known as a "checkride" ). A practical test is the certificate test that you take with an examiner pilot at the end of your training for a certificate or rating. The checkride (essentially) consists of a flight portion, wherein you are tasked with performing maneuvers that you will have been trained on and an oral portion, where the examiner will quiz you on any of a large number of aviation matters. This software's primary goal is to help you be ready for the oral portion of the checkride. As a secondary benefit, it will also to some degree help you study up on the flight maneuvers that you will need to perform as a double-check that your knowledge of those is up to standards. Because this software contains a large question bank, it is also useful not just for checkride applicants, but also for certified pilots who can use it as a lookup and refresher tool. What specific aircraft does RideReady include system information for? RideReady is a useful tool regardless of whether you fly one of the aircraft listed below or not. Each RideReady version contains hundreds of questions that are generic to the specific practical test being studied for.

However, one of the places that RideReady shines is in that it also contains questions that are specialized for particular aircraft. This is particularly important since, as you know, systems and performance questions are stressed on every checkride. When you use RideReady, you select which aircraft you are flying, and RideReady customizes the questions for that airplane. If your aircraft is not included in RideReady, you can add it as a 'custom airplane.'

Ride ready Private Pilot Contains the following aircraft as standard: Cessna 150
Cessna 152
Cessna 172N
Cessna 172RG
Cessna 172SP
Diamond Katana
Piper Warrior II

If your aircraft is not included in RideReady, you can add it as a 'custom airplane.'
Q. When should I start studying for my checkride oral?
A. Ideally, you should start studying as early in the training process as you can. Having more knowledge earlier on will help you make the most of your training flights and therefore likely save you training money / time over the course of your training. That said, RideReady is perfectly suitable as a "night before the checkride" cram tool.

Q. How does RideReady compare to those little FAA Oral Exam prep books that I have seen?
A. This is answered in the "Top Ten" list higher up on this page. We believe that RideReady is a better tool that can get you better prepared and often in less time than those limited-content books. In short, RideReady is designed to better simulate the sorts of questions that you see on the checkride.

Q. Who wrote the questions and answers of RideReady?
A . RideReady was written by professional pilots and flight instructors of Dauntless Software. It was helped along by conducting exit interviews of dozens of flight students throughout the country. Additional material and suggestions were supplied by at least four current and former FAA Designated Pilot Examiners (DPEs). Where it is advantageous to do so, many answers contain text directly from the FAA and other government agencies so that you are trained on answers exactly per the FAA's thinking on the matter.

Q. Why does RideReady not grade answers right and wrong like, for example, your GroundSchool FAA Written Test prep software does?
A. Unlike on FAA written tests where questions have obvious and definite answers, many checkride oral questions are intended to probe your functional literacy and reasoning skills. Answers are often rich and detailed. Therefore, it is impractical to grade your answers strictly. Rather, RideReady leaves it up to you to see how your answer compares to ours. That said, RideReady allows you to flag questions as easy, neutral, or hard so that you can zero in on questions of importance to you. By the way, if you need FAA written test prep software, check out our GroundSchool software .

Q. Do I have to know ALL of the content of RideReady before taking my checkride?
A . The answer is "definitely no! however..." No examiner expects you to know everything. RideReady is written such that if a person knew everything that is in there, he/she would likely be an amazingly outstanding applicant. A small percentage of the questions included in each test prep (especially the earlier stage ones, such as Private and Recreational Pilot) are beyond what is normally expected of applicants. We nevertheless include a few such questions to allow you to potentially be truly impressive.

So, don't worry if you don't know all of the answers. Your goal is really to be functionally literate in the subject matter. "I don't know, but I know where to look that up" is a perfectly good answer for some checkride oral questions - but just don't use it too often! Your primary goal is to demonstrate to the examiner that you have competence in the material and that you have good, safety-minded judgment. The examiner is not expecting you to know everything, but don't take the oral lightly - people probably fail the oral exam portions of their checkride just about as often as they fail in flight tasks. You want to be over prepared rather than under prepared.

Q. How does RideReady ask me specifics about my aircraft?
A. In RideReady, you select from a list of common aircraft for a given certificate or rating. For example, for Private / Recreational Pilot, RideReady has question sets for a variety of common Diamond, Cessna, and Piper aircraft. Once you select an aircraft, the RideReady will ask you questions about that particular aircraft (for example, it could ask you questions that pertain to the fuel system design of your particular aircraft). Furthermore, because for a number of reasons there are variations between even the same type of aircraft (for example, one particular aircraft might have special wing tips installed that lower the published stall speeds), RideReady allows you to further customize many specifics so that its questions will best reflect your particular aircraft. Furthermore, if RideReady just doesn't have the aircraft you are using, you can always enter data for a generic aircraft. Since aircraft systems, performance, and limitations are a key FAA emphasis areas on checkrides, the ability to customize the quizzing to your aircraft's needs is a particularly important advantage of RideReady over books, which typically only talk about generic aircraft.
Q. How many questions does RideReady contain?
A. Each test bank covered by RideReady includes hundreds upon hundreds of questions. The exact number that you will see depends on the aircraft, specific test, and other configuration options that you have selected. Certainly, each RideReady test bank has many more questions than those oral exam prep books do, and more questions still are being added as feedback comes in and FAA rules change.

Q. What happens when updates are released?
A . Updates are always free, so, unlike limited-lifespan books, RideReady will serve you well into the future! There is an update link from the main menu. Click that, select the test you want, and follow the instructions to get the latest and greatest. Getting upgrades is integrated, fast, and free.

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Brand: Dauntless Software

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Availability: Available for order

ISBN: 3000036482

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