Dennis Magdaleno DPE Checkride Gouges
Designated Pilot Examiner • (Dennis Gregory Magdaleno)
Preparing for an FAA checkride with Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) Dennis Magdaleno? GougeHub has 2 first-hand Dennis Magdaleno checkride gouge reports from pilots who tested. Review oral exam questions, flight test patterns, and examiner insights for IFR and PPL checkrides.
↓ View 2 available gouge reportsAnalyzed 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:
“Explain how you would read this METAR. (Examiner presents a sample METAR.)”
📋 Examiner Insight: A very common question — almost every examiner asks it.
⚠ Common Pitfall: They may ask you to decode the trailing digits of an AWOS group like T00640036. That’s tricky — it isn’t under METAR decoding in AIM 7-1-28. It lives in a separate section, AIM 7-1-10, Figure 7-1-9 (ASOS/AWOS Decode) — the only place you’ll find it.
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
- IFR (Instrument Rating)
- PPL (Private Pilot)
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