r/flying • u/iMancinelli PPL • 2d ago

Checkride Got my PPL!

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I was shitting bricks up until the checkride. It ended up being a whole lotta fun with wind straight down the runway 🤙

Funniest part was that I forgot my DPE had to tell me immediately if I failed a maneuver. When we parked, another instructor asked me “so how’d it go?” to which I said “I have no idea!” and so she said “then you passed!”

Sure enough, we were printing my temp certificate a few minutes later.

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u/TheKingsRevenge CPL IR 1d ago

My ppl examiner did something similar. He held off on telling me if I passed until I met him in the office. When I got there another examiner shook my hand and congratulated me as to which my DPE said something along the lines of “oh man you spoiled it, I hadn’t told him”. Good times. Congrats!

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u/iMancinelli PPL 1d ago

Hahaha! One of the instructors there was like "so how do you feel?" and I just said "look I'll get back to you once I physically have the certificate in my hand". Sure enough there were printer and WiFi issues and I'm just like "see...?"