Ahmed Salama Pre-solo cross country progress check oral
Requires re-check:
- [ ] Nav-log
- [ ] Cross country flight planning and performance
- [ ] Flight Publications and Currency
- [ ] Special Use Airspace
- [ ] System and Equipment Malfunctions and Procedures
- [x] In flight- Diversion
Notes
Flight plan was incorrect-
- [x] Merged checkpoints inputting multiple legs into one space
- [x] Did not calculate a top of climb
- [x] Had trouble referencing the top of climb chart in the POH
- [x] He used cruise performance calculations for all legs in his nav log
- [x] Did not input compass heading
- [x] Did not calculate the top of descent correctly
- [x] Equipment requirements for Delta airspace were incorrect
- [ ] All special use airspace was incorrect
Needs to review:
- [x] magnetic course, true course, true heading and magnetic heading
- [x] 91.159
- [x] 91.103
- [x] Surface analysis chart issuance times
- [x] Pressure systems
- [x] He was able to look up coriolis force
- [x] Stationary fronts
- [ ] How to read PIREPs
- [x] Converting Zulu time to local time
- [x] Symbology on sectional chart: Flag symbol, airport data information, FSS frequencies-he said he would use the VOR frequency
- [x] Review receive only FSS frequencies
- [x] Where ADSB out is required
- [x] FSS flight plans-when they will send search and rescue (he said 2 hours after ETA)
- [x] Review flight following procedures
- [x] Lost communications procedures- he said he would enter the delta and do circles before squawking 7600
- [x] He did not know light gun signals
- [x] Needs to review glide range he stated at 4,500 feet he would have 40 miles of glide range
Flight- requires recheck on diversion
- [x] He decided to go with the tfr active and to get a squawk code but he had trouble knowing how to do this and struggled inputting the squawk code
- [x] He did not know how to simulate requesting flight following on the ground
- [ ] Diversion-he deviated altitude 250 feet and heading 40 degrees
- [ ] He did not turn to true course heading initially
- [ ] He got up to 1300 feet in the pattern
- [x] Incorrect radio call to tower they said advise when traffic in sight he read back “follow the traffic”
- [x] He attempted to turn to follow the traffic before reporting the traffic in sight to ATC
- [x] Over shot the runway