Product reviews for Private Pilot Practical Test (Checkride) Prep

Excellent

The program could not have been better and presented in a more professional and more important, realistic format. I believe it is the closest approximation possible to actually being in the plane with an examiner.

The Practical Test course really illustrated what good looks like  in a clear, engaging way.

Excellent

Excellent Course! Very Helpful and gave me the confidence to take my checkride

Website is well planned and easy to use

Vary Helpfull need to watch 3 or 4 times difintly helps and don't forget to make notes or 3x5 cards

The King School checkride prep videos are thorough regarding the basic rrquired aeronautical knowledge and flying skills needed to pass your the oral and flight portions of your checkride. However, it appears that they were recorded in the '90s, making them at least a decade and a half old! Would've been nice to show how to use more modern navigational aids, especially GPS and iPad-based navigational programs. Also would've liked to see John and JC discuss ADS-B and other collision avoidance tech and techniques, like scanning. And no night flight demonstration, even though the checkride itself takes place during daylight hours. Overall a good review to boost a student pilot's confidence in their knowledge and flying skills.

I enjoyed all the videos.  I thought they were very thorough.  Wish me luck I go for my checkride in a couple days.

I am already a private pilot as of a few months ago, but I am now completing the practical course for private pilots. I think Kings has done a great job of sharing the experience of an actual private pilot checkride. The reason I've decided to do the course now is for the purpose of review. I've not been PIC for a couple months and wanted to get myself a bit more familiarized before I hop back into the cockpit. I like that a standard, frequently used aircraft (C172) was selected as the aircraft for John's checkride. He also does a good job of "thinking out loud," which is something I found extremely helpful during my instruction days. John King's checkride demonstrated a very accurate picture of what a student pilot can expect on their own examination day. I found myself having flashbacks of my own checkride the whole way through this course. It was totally realistic, and was full of teaching-type feedback at all points of the course!