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For a lot of pilots, “later on” is driving home after the checkride.

Study hard, know the ACS, regs, AIM, POH and supplements inside-out, take multiple practice orals with different instructors, and practice your maneuvers until you can do them in your sleep. I used to know a guy who broke an inspector’s 100% bust rate on first-time CFI rides. It’s all about the...

Why would (or should) this be less likely right after a checkride than any other time in a pilot’s life?

See post #7.

Ah, that would be why my wife mentioned this morning that her dad remembers the dimensions of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

My boss will probably have his sword in the office tomorrow for cutting the cake.

I was a lot closer to my maternal grandfather…lived on the same farm site as a kid, spent a couple of summers and part of a winter working with him up in Alaska after he retired from farming. Every once in a while I mention something he told me that nobody else knows. Both of my grandfathers...

I’m not sure I follow that logic, but the left engine is the critical engine.

The title says it all…

SD doesn’t require the airplane to go into an unusual attitude in less than 20 seconds. It could simply be not moving and staring at the instruments trying to make sense of them.

I wouldn’t have nearly the experience and good judgement I have now if I’d followed that advice. :eek:

Move the kitchen?

“All it takes is a little imagination, some mechanical ability, and neighbors who mind their own business.”

Remove the switch, drill an appropriately-sized hole in the other side, and reinstall the switch there. Run the wires around the inside and cover them with duct tape. “If the women don’t find you handsome, at least they should find you handy.” (Hey, at least it didn’t get to the point of me...

There’s always the possibility, but they wouldn’t have gotten airborne by the end of the runway.

Except that a teardrop has you on the inbound course, where a direct doesn’t necessarily.

I had an instructor who was convinced that a parallel entry flew out of protected airspace. I prefer not to do a parallel entry simply because it has to be followed by a direct entry. ;)

Both made of pigskin?

“Teardrop, unless it’s obviously direct.”

True…without annual recurrent training, it would probably take 6 days to figure out how to fly a NPA.