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Old 23rd Oct 2011, 19:56
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I 100% agree with Genghis.

(please take the following in a positive, mentoring spirit - to motivate you to a conservatively safe approach)

It's way too easy to get over confident. NEVER turn down the opportunity (or requirement) for a check ride. If you're that sharp a pilot, one circuit will tell the check pilot. If a pilot who has not flown recently resists paying a check pilot for a half hour of their time, that's a big red flag to me. In my opinion, a cocky (no personal insult intended) pilot, who tells me they don't need a check ride, gets an extra thorough one, with some tricky stuff thrown in just to humle them.

If you have to ask if you need a check ride, you do! When you have a few thousand hours, and fly weekly, you'll rethink this, and that'll be okay then...
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