Originally Posted by
unstableapch4u
1. Insufficient mock orals. The MockCheckride website has CFIs for hire over zoom for this purpose and the Readyforcheckride.com website has mock oral exams with real oral questions from recent checkrides for practice. A single mock oral was not enough to probe my weak areas. In hindsight I wish I would have used these resources.
One of the schools I worked at had old retired guys teaching ground schools and doing things like mock orals. That worked well, they weren't in a hurry to get anywhere, much less rush off to their next time building activity, so they were very thorough.
Originally Posted by
unstableapch4u
1. Stay away from AI (ChatGPT, Perplexity). These services will give you straight up wrong answers to checkride questions.
I've noticed these are complete garbage for many, many technical questions. You can get away with something flowery that sounds about right in the humanities space, but it's worse than useless for many technical applications.