Casey Rice DPE Checkride Gouges
Designated Pilot Examiner
Preparing for an FAA checkride with Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) Casey Rice? GougeHub has a first-hand Casey Rice checkride gouge report from a pilot who tested. Read oral exam questions, flight test patterns, and examiner insights.
↓ View 1 available gouge reportAs of this writing, one report is on file for Casey Rice, covering a PPL checkride. The pilot described an oral that stayed practical and direct. The examiner asked straightforward questions rather than trick questions. That tone made the session feel fair, and the pilot called Casey Rice personable.
The oral hit preventative maintenance, so know what a private pilot can legally perform on the aircraft. Navlog planning came up, so build a clean cross-country plan you can explain step by step. Be ready to talk about adverse yaw and how the controls counter it. The examiner also asked the pilot to find answers in the POH, so practice fast lookups.
Weight and balance was part of the oral, so run your numbers and know the limits cold. Basic weather analysis rounded out the discussion, so review how you read and interpret the conditions for your flight. None of these areas needed memorized scripts. The pilot felt the questions matched real flying tasks.
The flight did not get far. During run-up, the mag check failed, and the examiner discontinued the checkride. They rescheduled for June 5th. That outcome shows Casey Rice will stop the ride for a real airworthiness problem, so check your run-up carefully and know your discontinuance options.
This single report points to an examiner who keeps things calm and reasonable. Study the named oral topics and you should feel prepared for the conversation. If you fly with Casey Rice soon, add your own report so the next pilot knows more.
Analyzed across 113 site-wide Private Pilot checkrides in the GougeHub database, the same questions keep coming up. Here’s one of the 37 in the guide:
“When does your medical certificate expire, and what class do you hold?”
📋 Examiner Insight: A guaranteed question — and examiners have been digging into BasicMed lately, so know that too.
⚠ Common Pitfall: First- and second-class certificates do not lapse into a third-class certificate — their privileges lapse to second and then third class. A first-class certificate that is 59 calendar months old is still a first-class certificate, but its privileges have stepped down to third class, which is valid for private-pilot use.
All 37 questions, ranked by frequency, with Examiner Insights and Common Pitfalls from 113 real checkrides — written and reviewed by Andrew Gray, CFI-II.
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Ratings & Checkride Types
- PPL (Private Pilot)
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