bob turner
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Have you been following the new Private Pilot ACS, which describes in detail what happens on a checkride?
Rod Machado and John King discuss the risk management aspect in this month's AOPA Pilot magazine.
Here's my take: the PTS was already far too detailed to actually use as a checklist and still look out the window. They have combined PTS and written standards into a single document, and included lots of risk management elements.
I took the time to count elements per page for the first third of the document - just over 19 discrete elements per page.
If we assume the remaining 50 pages are roughly the same, we have around 1400 elements that must be checked off during a checkride.
If we en assume that a check ride is six full hours of evaluation, the DPE will have to average one element every 2 1/2 seconds - that leaves very little time to look out the window and help the candidate with traffic scans.
This has been my concern with the PTS-based Wings program - sufficiently structured that, if you do it right, you do not have time to do the important things while you are checking off PTS elements.
Rod Machado and John King discuss the risk management aspect in this month's AOPA Pilot magazine.
Here's my take: the PTS was already far too detailed to actually use as a checklist and still look out the window. They have combined PTS and written standards into a single document, and included lots of risk management elements.
I took the time to count elements per page for the first third of the document - just over 19 discrete elements per page.
If we assume the remaining 50 pages are roughly the same, we have around 1400 elements that must be checked off during a checkride.
If we en assume that a check ride is six full hours of evaluation, the DPE will have to average one element every 2 1/2 seconds - that leaves very little time to look out the window and help the candidate with traffic scans.
This has been my concern with the PTS-based Wings program - sufficiently structured that, if you do it right, you do not have time to do the important things while you are checking off PTS elements.
