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Originally Posted by prayforwaves117
I attended a part 141 school without self-examining authority. We had to go through an EOC ride to be recommended for the checkride and the FAA checkride was with a DPE, at the mercy of DPE availability.

I haven’t failed a stage check, progress check, EOC, phase check, or FAA checkride, (PPL SEL, IR, COM SEL, COM Multi addon). I do however, have flights occurring after the EOC, either because of a reposition to take the checkride at the DPEs airport, or because I might as well fly again if my ride isn’t for a couple days. One of my EOC flights took place 3 weeks before my FAA checkride so there is a flight after that EOC.

I have all my school grades printed out, with the syllabus annotating which lessons are which, and with each stage check/eoc grade sheet printed out as well. The grade sheets show minimum passing grades for the oral and flight tasks as well as comments, and I don’t have anything where I didn’t meet the minimum required grade.

Once the EOC is completed, it closes out the course and any flights afterwards show up as review/remedial. For example, I have a review/remedial flight before my FAA checkride, then another remedial/review after passing the checkride due to a reposition lol.

Is printing out what I have enough to save face when they see my logbook and wonder why I have flights occurring after EOC? Would they ask for what I have or would they cross reference through their own sources so they don’t think I fudged with the syllabus or grade sheets? Also, the cadet thing I applied for mentioned all stages of training including intermediate checks in like the middle of the course.

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Yes, EOC followed by DPE ride is common for some 141 schools which don't exercise self-examining authority. I probably know which one you're talking about. Don't worry about your logbook, worst case they'll just ask you about it and you can you look them in the eye and tell the truth.

The guy who gets caught in a deception/omission at that moment will be a deer-in-the-headlights, and won't have a good explanation.
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