Commerical Pilot Exam Notes:
Practical Test (Total Time 1.7 hours)
• Plan a cross country from M01 to KFSM (Nav log, Weather briefing, Weight &
Balance, takeoff performance, landing performance, print out Air NAV pages for
airports M01/KFSM)
• Normal take off
• Contact Memphis approach for VFR flight flowing block altitudes (You will worked
radios frequency used 119.1, 124.65, 124.15 122.7)
• Divert to McNelly Airport
• Steep turns Left and Right
• Slow Flight
• Chandelles Left and Right
• Lazy Eights
• Emergency Descent
• Power On/Off DPE will typical call for the break instead of the buffet
• Accelerated Stall
• Eights on pylons
• Engine out
• Normal landing
• Short Field take off & landing
• Go around
• Soft field take off and landing
• Power Off 180 landing
Oral Exam (Total Time 2.0 hours)
• Verify all log book endorsements are done
• Pay the DPE fee ($400)
• Small talk
• All the below information will be asked via situation questions.
• Plane requirements AAROW (Airworthiness, Airplane Registration, Operations
Manual, Weight and Balance
• Aircraft inspections: Annual, Altimeter and pitot static, Transponder 24 months,
ELT tested annually (Battery good for 2 years)
• Pilot requirements: State ID, Medical, Pilot license
• He reviewed the cross-country flight plan logs. (Runway take off and land
requirements, Winds magnetic or true, fuel consumption, fuel reserve)
• What are the four weather conditions that make up a Convective SIGMET? Line
of thunderstorms, embedded thunderstorm, Tornado, hail ¾ inches in diameter,
wind gust 50 KTS thunderstorm affecting an area of 3,000 square miles 2 hours
reporting
• What are the four weather conditions that make up a SIGMET?
o sever icing not associated with thunderstorms,
o server or extreme turbulence Clear air turbulence
o Dust storms
o Sand storms
o Volcanic ash lowering surface or inflight visibility
• What are the three types of AIRMETS?
o SIERRA – ceilings less than 1000ft or visibility less than 3 miles affective
over 50% of the area at one time and mountain obscuration
o TANGO – Turbulence light moderate turbulence sustained surface winds
of 30 knots or more
o ZULU - icing light moderate freezing levels
• METAR Read several METARS Know how to read every part of TAF or METAR
(SLP Sea Level Pressure, A02 Automated with precipitation sensor, CA-cloud –air
lightning CC-Could –cloud lightning CG- Cloud –Ground lightning)
• TAF radius and read text versions
• Transponder Codes 1200, 7700, 7600, 7500
• Define a Stall
• Define a Spin and how to recover from a spin
• Review all the symbols on the VFR charts
• Know all the airspace A/B/C/D/E/G also know the cloud clearances
• PAVE (Pilot, Aircraft, Environment, and External Pressures)
• IMSAFE (Illness, Medicine, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, Stress)
• The five haphazard Attitudes
• Types of work that commercial pilot can perform
• Pressurization Altitudes
• Types of Oxygen Systems and why you have to use them
• Hypoxia
• Pressurize aircraft have sealed cabin
• Piston engine use compressor for pressurization Turbine aircraft uses bleed air
for pressurization
• Density Altitude effects on aircraft
• Cardinal Altitude
• Explain all the types of V-speeds like Va, Vy, Vx and other airspeed
• What is SATR (Special Air Traffic Rules) 14 CFR Part 93
• Preflight considerations like Hot and Cold areas (blankets, jackets, Water,
survival gear
• Use all lights appropriate don't forget to use landing lights when landing
• Part 68 Basic Med
• SFRA (Special Flight Rules Area)
• UTC (Useful Time of consciousness) impacts
Dr. Morris Ray Notes to CFI
CFI comments for certificate recommendations:
1. Be sure to get student on IACRA and Look at what they write on 8710: eg.
Usually use only one A/C, check the time requirements and training
requirements.
2. Read the PTS for the certificate or rating: there is a good checklist for the
applicant to follow.
3. Be sure the applicant has and knows his/her FTN.
4. Tab the applicants logbook with required training times and activities (eg. XC)
5. In general there are 4 Logbooks endorsements required for the Practical and
Written
a. Received required tng. Instrument.=3hours within 2 calendar months
b. Prepared for the knowledge test
c. Practical/oral test
d. Satisfactory knowledge of areas of deficiency in the knowledge test
6. Be sure the applicant has the A/C log books and can interpret them
