Private Pilot Checkride Preparation and Study Guide

• I found this short book helpful preparing for my checkride

Pass Your Private Pilot Checkride 3.0: Jason Shappert

• Audio Book that I listened to repeatedly preparing for my checkride.

Andy Munnis DPE Private Checkride

• Even though this is a few years old, DPE Andy Munnis covers most everything he looks for during the Private Check Ride and the most common mistakes make by applicants.

2021 Private Pilot Checkride FAA Oral Exam Checkride

• Jon at FLY8MA does a mock oral

The Finer Points – Ground School

• Jason Miller’s Ground School app has a mock oral section. While it’s a bit spendy for just the mock oral section, it will prepare you very well. You can purchase a single month for $50.

Experience

• Ground training 14 CFR 61.105(b)(1-13)) & 61.107(b)(1)(1))
• Total Time: 40 hours 14 CFR 61.109(a)i-iii)
  
  

  Dual: 20 hours of flight training

• 3 hours of X-C flight training
• 3 hours of night flight training
  • 1 X-C flight of over 100 nm total distance
  • 10 T/O and 10 Landings with each involving a flight in the traffic pattern
• 3 hours of flight training by reference to instruments
• 3 hours of flight training within the 60 days prior to the practical test
  

  Solo: 10 hours of solo

• 5 hours of solo X-C flying
• 1 solo X-C flight of at least 150nm total distance with 3 points and one segment of at least 50nn between T/O and Landings
• 3 T/O and Landings at a controlled airport