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Commercial Pilot Checkride Prep Guide

Commercial applicants who already hold a private certificate. $7.99 one-time · PDF guide · Keep access for life.

Prepare for your checkride

Bring your preparation together: the knowledge, decisions and flying topics to discuss with your examiner. Use this guide to work through the areas below and identify anything you still need to practice.

  • Preflight preparation, including commercial privileges and limitations
  • Preflight procedures
  • Airport operations
  • Takeoffs, landings and go-arounds
  • Performance maneuvers and ground reference maneuvers
  • Navigation
  • Slow flight and stalls
  • Emergency operations
  • High-altitude operations
  • Postflight procedures

Sources

  • 14 CFR Part 61
  • 14 CFR Part 91
  • Commercial Pilot ACS
  • FAA handbooks

Using this guide

  • Aircraft-specific numbers, speeds, limitations and procedures come from your AFM/POH, never from a study guide.
  • Regulations change. The controlling text is the current eCFR, and the guide names the section so you can check it.
  • A study guide is preparation material. It is not an endorsement, an approval, or a substitute for instruction.