Week 12 Period: Check ride

The final sortie, flown to published tolerance, assessed on one question — whether the aircraft can fly again tomorrow

10 May 2027

Before you arrive#

Your card, your gates, and your decision altitude in the form you defended in week 11.

In this period#

One takeoff, one circuit, one landing, flown to the tolerances published on the standards page. Wren observes from the tower and Ida receives the aircraft.

Two things about how this is graded, stated here rather than left to be discovered:

• a go-around is not a failure. If your gates say to abandon the approach and you abandon it, you have demonstrated the thing this course is for.
• flying a marginal approach to a landing because it is the check ride is the failure the examiner is watching for.

The mark is not an average of your control inputs. It is a judgement on the sortie as a whole, answering the question the course has asked since week 1: can this aircraft fly again tomorrow, and was that the outcome of what you did rather than of what you got away with.

Afterwards#

Sign it back in. The course ends when the airframe is serviceable and in Ida’s hands.