CHECKRIDES DEPARTMENT
The 1st Officers Checkride
This UK Direct pilot seems to have been lucky with the weather...
You can fly this checkride at any time in your UK Direct career. You can treat it as
a 'Type Rating' before flying.
This checkride should be flown at our HQ at BOURNEMOUTH airport, as this is
where the WAVs were recorded from, but if you must use another airport try to
use one with a runway 26.
The adventure program requires you to fly 3 circuits and at least one of these
needs to be a 'Smooth landing' for you to pass. The program will tell if you
have passed or not. THIS CHECKRIDE IS DIFFICULT!! Not impossible, though. If you
pass this test you will deserve the award on your History page!
** PLEASE NOTE: The 1st Officer Checkride is designed for FS98 ONLY and
therefore you might not be able to pass it using FS2000. IT DOES WORK WITH FS2002 although
the weather module is inactive. For the present, please set up with a 500 foot cloudbase and a slight
crosswind. The checkride is still tricky even in clear and still conditions, but you can make it fairer
on those who passed the checkride in FS98! Hopefully a weather module will be available here soon. **
The Captains Checkride
Prove you can cope with incidents like this
This checkride can be very hard to pass! It is based on a normal
A-B flightplan, but the checkride adventure program will produce random system failures
during your flight. It's how well you cope with these failures that will determine how well
you do. The Pass mark is 90% (ONLY TWO ERRORS), any score below this point is a failure!
Expect things like instrument, AP and engine failures and even stuck gear and flaps!
IMPORTANT: This is the first release of this adventure and as a result it may
have some bugs and errors. Also it may well be, that some of these random failures
produce a 'no win' situation. So if you think you would get frustrated at this sort
of thing, then I would suggest waiting until the bugs are ironed out.
To fly the Captains Checkride you must read the following rules and conditions:
- Download the Captains flightplan package ZIP.
- Download the Lastest Adventure update, which has the Captains Checkride ADV.
- You MUST have flown at least 20hours in the aircraft you choose to fly
the checkride.
- You MUST have passed the 1st Officers Checkride for that aircraft.
If you should be given the 'pass' by the checkride adventure, email the score
back to me using the words 'Captain CK' in the notes section of the pirep
program.
** PLEASE NOTE: This checkride is no longer accepted in lieu
of the 1st Officer Checkride **
Checkride Manager
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