For Instructors and Applicants

The popular Guide to the Flight Review Oral Exam Guide by Jackie Spanitz has been updated to reflect the latest regulations and procedures. It's an excellent companion to the FAA's online refresher tools and consistent with the FAA's new Pilot Proficiency WINGS program.

Written to help prepare applicants for their oral exams with FAA examiners.

- Using a question-and-answer format, each Oral Exam Guide lists the questions most likely to be asked by examiners and provides succinct, ready responses. Pilots will find these Guides indispensable tools in both planning for what to expect during the airplane checkride, and mastering the subject matter. Instructors rate them as excellent preparation for students, as well as preps for Instrument Proficiency Checks (IPCs), aircraft transitions, and as general refresher material.

Oral Exam Guide Updated
New Seventh Edition: Instrument

The popular Instrument Oral Exam Guide by Michael Hayes has been updated to reflect the latest regulations and procedures. These exam guides are written to help prepare applicants for their oral exams with FAA examiners. Using a question-and-answer format, each Oral Exam Guide lists the questions most likely to be asked by examiners and provides succinct, ready responses. Immediately following each question line is a reference to the specific FAA source from which the answer is derived.

Pilots will find these Guides indispensable tools in planning for what to expect during the airplane checkride, mastering the subject matter, and increasing confidence when under an examiner's scrutiny. Instructors rate them as excellent preparation for students, as well as preps for Instrument Proficiency Checks (IPCs), aircraft transitions, and as general refresher material.

The book reflects the most current Practical Test Standards (8081-6C) and features an Appendix for CFII applicants. New for this Seventh Edition is an Appendix with FAA guidance for the Instrument Proficiency Check (IPC), plus an internet element that provides readers with additional tools and resources. Soft cover, 5-1/4" x 8-1/4", 200 pages.

Written to help prepare applicants for their oral exams with FAA examiners. Using a question-and-answer format, each Oral Exam Guide lists the questions most likely to be asked by examiners and provides succinct, ready responses. Pilots will find these Guides indispensable tools in both planning for what to expect during the airplane checkride, and mastering the subject matter. Instructors rate them as excellent preparation for students, as well as preps for Flight Reviews, aircraft transitions, and as general refresher material.

The Private Oral Exam Guide is designed for student pilots training for the Private Pilot Certificate. All the subjects a Private Pilot candidate will be tested on during checkrides and review flights are covered. Chapters are dedicated to certificates and documents, weather, determining performance and limitations, airplane systems, cross-country flight planning, night operations, and aeromedical factors. References for further study are provided throughout the book, and additional study questions conclude each chapter. Answers and explanations were researched using FAA documents (which are identified so readers know where to go for further study) as well as interviewing FAA examiners.

This book teaches applicants not only what to expect, but also how to exhibit subject mastery and confidence when under the examiner's scrutiny. It identifies the candidates' strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in their aeronautical knowledge, which increases study efficiency. Soft cover, 5-1/4" x 8-1/4", 208 pages. (Ninth Edition, June 2009.)

Also by Michael Hayes: Commercial Oral Exam Guide, Multi-Engine Oral Exam Guide, Certified Flight Instructor Oral Exam Guide, Airline Transport Pilot Oral Exam Guide.