Did anyone go deep into navigation systems and satellites on your ppl check ride
Posted by Unlikely_Load7709@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 12 comments
Hello everyone, I got my ppl checkride coming up and I wanted to know if you got asked any questions about navigations. I know the basics like what a vor is but that’s really it and I wanted to know what I should know before the checkride. I’m confident about every other thing though.
vmFrank@reddit
Mine was basically "Show me you can read a sectional, a compass, and tune/follow a VOR radial." Beyond that, there isn't a lot to VFR navigation. Look out the window and see if you can spot a water tower with the town's name on it, I guess?
Law-of-Poe@reddit
The checked variability is really frustrating. I got so much wrong on my ppl but “passed” but I see people here failing for much smaller asinine things
AdImpressive9014@reddit
That is one of my major frustrations with the whole checkride system. I have had some colleagues who failed their checkride due to the most obscure things.
AdImpressive9014@reddit
Not really.
My DPE only asked like 2 questions about navigation system and satellites in during my Oral exam. Now for my instrument and commercial, my DPE for that checkride went into depth into those topics.
I would over study and over prepare just in case. My experience with the checkrides is that each DPE conducts their exams differently from on another. It really is a gamble.
Antique-Kitchen-1896@reddit
Excess questions. I mean answer this: what is your minimum equipment for vfr flight?
Squawk_0877@reddit
On my checkride this stuff was surface level but the DPE could have dug in., know GPS basics (4 sats minimum, RAIM, WAAS), VOR (radials, Morse ident), and most importantly what you'd actually do if GPS quit mid flight (revert to VOR or dead reckoning) If you can explain that, you close 80% of nav questions
HighVelocitySloth@reddit
No
militaryrat155@reddit
If by navigation systems you mean pilotage,dead reckoning, and VORs then yes
If you mean WAAS, GPS, DME, then hell naw. I think the only time GPS was even mentioned was in reference to the direct button
EliteEthos@reddit
That’s a bit beyond the scope of PPL. Good for IR though…
TheBuff66@reddit
Is RAIM/WAAS in the PPL ACS now? At the PPL level navigation is usually “what do these different symbols mean” on the sectional regarding types of VORs, what their frequency is, and at the absolute most “how does a VOR work” but that’s more of an IR question
blitzroyale@reddit
That's more of an Instrument Checkride topic
rFlyingTower@reddit
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Hello everyone, I got my ppl checkride coming up and I wanted to know if you got asked any questions about navigations. I know the basics like what a vor is but that’s really it and I wanted to know what I should know before the checkride. I’m confident about every other thing though.
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