Originally Posted by
dera
The SV exam "is" the "oral". Most AQP implementations have you do it with an examiner, who can only use an approved question bank for the questions. Good to see FAA has approved a full iPad method for it.
It's probably semantics, because either way you're going to be tested over the material, but an SV is still a train-to-proficiency item as I understand it. If you don't pass the SV (<80%), they retrain you on the subjects you missed and give you the test again.
With a true oral, I'm not sure the process works the same way, but then again, I didn't go through that program, so I can't say for sure.