Daniel Lee Kelley DPE Checkride Gouges
Designated Pilot Examiner
Preparing for an FAA checkride with Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) Daniel Lee Kelley? GougeHub has a first-hand Daniel Lee Kelley checkride gouge report from a pilot who tested. Read oral exam questions, flight test patterns, and examiner insights.
↓ View 1 available gouge reportAnalyzed 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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