Originally Posted by
celticpilot
As the CFI checkride Oral is about 8-10 hours on the first day, and about 4 hours on the second day, to include the flight of about 2 plus hours, I am not sure how you are going to do your CFI on the cheap.
Wow, you must have had fun time with that. My CFII initial oral was 3 hours followed by a 1.5 flight. I hear all these horror stories about how bad the checkrides are, but if you show up prepared, they aren't that bad.
And the notion that DPE's don't do initals is wrong. Some FSDO's are so swamped that they have to farm them out to DPE's. They tell you who you are going to get, but they do give them to DPE's.