papacharlie

Hi there.
Im about to take my instrument oral and practical test and I was wondering if somebody can tell me how difficult the oral test was or is and how long does it takes.I heard the it is a open book kind test?
any info...thanks

Slice

It depends on your examiner. Like every checkride you'll take in your career, each examiner, check airman, etc., has areas they like to stress more than others. If you get an oral exam guide plus what your CFII has taught you you'll be ok.

http://www.boonesky.com/index.asp?Pa...OD&ProdID=2392

b18onboost

You can also get the King School Instrument Checkride DVD. I used it for my oral and find it very helpful. If you want to borrow, send me a pm and I'll loan it to you. Thanks

Bri85

My oral was about 2.5 hours- It was very indepth on wx (all types of wx charts/ wx phenomena, icing/types), follow by the x-country plan which incorporated (charts, scenarios, loss comms, alternates) Then more REGS, Nav Systems and Components (GPS/VOR/NDB/ILS) then when over the a/c systems I flew. I did it on a multi so I also talked about critical engine, principles of flight(inop engine) etc, and that was about it... At the end I was exhausted, but at the same time relieve I was over with it. And the flight was a piece of cake. The only hard part was that I had to do a Partial Panel Single Engine Approach follow by a Circle to Land all with partial thrust on one engine.


*If you can try to observe a few oral checks- I found them helpful. Is pretty much of to the examiner on how much he think is good enough, Ive observed a few oral that were 1 hour top. And others that were long and more indepth like mine.

patton33

You covered multi engine aerodynamics on your instrument oral?

Slice

Probably got his initial IFR in a twin like I did long ago...

Bri85

Yes that is right!!

FlyingPoke

My IFR was a good hour and a half... first 45 minutes was good solid technical questions - really made me value the month I spent studying for the test... the following 45 minutes was him smoking a cigarette in the hangar and talking about guns ... every guy is different, but I was really mad I studied so hard for that test. Oh well, its good info to know well!

de727ups

Get the ASA IFR oral exam guide. Know everything in it and be able to spit the info out. You should have no problem passing the IFR oral after that. An examiner will have pet peeves that might go beyond that knowledge, but they will look at your knowledge level as an overall package and let you slide if you don't know their pet peeve item. Examiners like to walk away thinking you learned something and will keep at in until you do.

papacharlie

Hi everybody...thank you so much for all the info you have sent me.I took the written test and I got a 93% ,but I'm having a little problem spitting the info out of my mouth like you said 727ups.English is my second language.
I got the ASA IFR Oral exam guide and I find it very helpfull.Again thank you so much.