Blog – Mock Flight Test 09/11/2024

Today’s mission was to work through the requirements for the flight test; the final hurdle for me in achieving my lifelong aim of being a Private Pilot.

There is a heap of tasks required to be performed in a flight test in NZ. The flight Test Standards Guide can be viewed here.

The test starts well before you start the engine. The Examiner is looking at how you are prepared for this test plus how well and how safe you fly.

The test itself is flying every maneuver you have been taught in the curriculum to the required standard or better.

After running through our pre-flight, taxi, run ups and take-off we flew out to the training area and ran thru the following:

Levelling off at a specified height
Cruise flight into slow flight
Stall – clean configuration
Stall – Full flaps
Wing drop stall
Force Landing without Power
Climb to specified altitude
Level flight on selected heading
Flapless Landing
Standard Landing

Without boring the heck out of you, I was rough on most of these and took two or three attempts to even get close to standard especially in my nemesis “FLWOP”. However I was very pleased with my overhead join and landings.

The weather was quite gusty so that did make flying today more challenging but end of the day no real excuses.

We will repeat this next time and hopefully I will improve.

Progress by millimetres is still progress…

Until next time…

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Blog – Mock Flight Test 09/11/2024