General - How to Pass the Flight Test

Instructors prepare their students for the flight test with every training trip. They do this by helping the student master all the flight test items, but they also let the student take more and more responsibility for decision-making with each lesson so the student will be fully ready to make all the decisions during the flight test.

Here are some tips on how to pass the flight test:

  1. Review the flight test standards with your instructor before the flight test.

  2. Your instructor will do a pre-flight test evaluation, a simulated flight test, before recommending you for the real test.

  3. Be rested.

  4. Arrive early.

  5. The test measures your skill, item by item. If you think you did poorly on one item, try very hard to focus on the immediate task and don't let yourself be preoccupied with an item you already completed. Besides, you may have done better than you thought.

  6. Don't be afraid to ask the examiner if you are unsure what is expected of you. The examiner will either tell you what you need to know or tell you that you have to work with the information you have. You can't lose by asking.

  7. Tell the examiner what you are planning to do before you do it.

  8. The flight test is not a race. Don't put additional pressure on yourself by rushing.

  9. "Visualize" the flight test in advance by thinking through all the manoeuvres you will perform and developing mental pictures of what you are going to be doing.

Difficult as this may be, try to think of the examiner as your very first passenger with your new licence. Keep the examiner informed, as you would keep a passenger informed.