MAJOR UPDATE - !

[kimberlyanne546]

OH MY GOSH.

If the most recent email from my CFI says what I think it says:

The DPE will give me the checkride on Sunday, August 28th!!!

The email also says we need to meet before the checkride on the following days (didn't specify flying, so this might be a paperwork thing):

Saturday
Sunday
Mid-Week
Plus one solo

I am not signed off yet but I did do the IACRA first part where you get an FTN number.

Is this the greatest news or what?! Just in time for the 6Y9 Fly-In too.

 

[Jim Logajan]

The national pass rate is 90%

Not sure why that number keeps getting repeated; Ron Levy wrote it earlier. It has been false for at least the last 12 years. You can check under Table 19, "Original Airmen Certificates Approved/Disapproved by Category and Conductor" on the FAA web site:

http://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/civil_airmen_statistics/

The average pass rate over the last 10 years for student pilot to private pilot is approximately 78%. (In 2005, the worst year, it was only 76% - nearly 1 in 4 students failed to pass. On average a tad more than 1 in 5 fail to pass; NOT 1 in 10.)

 

[Jim Logajan]

I

AM

A

PILOT!!!!