Julie Paasch DPE Checkride Gouges

Six reports are on file for Julie Paasch, covering private, instrument, commercial, and CFI rides. She comes across as calm, respectful, and mindful of your time. One applicant noted she introduces herself, shares her background, and reminds you that nobody flies a perfect checkride. She tailors each exam to the candidate, so your experience may differ in the details.

Her paperwork review is detailed, so prepare for it. She checks endorsements, hour requirements, the student or pilot certificate, medical, written results, and your driver's license. For the commercial, she went through every instrument training entry line by line to confirm the right FAR reference and that it was commercial training. She wants the long cross country to meet requirements, with solo night hours and towered landings logged correctly. She catches problems in the maintenance logs, including an AD overflown by 50 hours. She likes ADLOG and AV1ATE for showing airworthiness. Bring a simulator LOA if you used sim time.

The oral runs about an hour and a half to two hours and follows a cross-country she has you plan. Expect scenario-based questions on privileges, pro rata share, holding out, and common carriage. She uses frameworks like PAVE and IMSAFE, but prefers a conversation over reading from a binder. Commercial topics include pressure altitude, performance chart interpolation, special airspace, VFR flyways, cloud clearances, speed limits, and transponder and ADS-B requirements. Weather came up hard on the commercial.

For CFI rides she quizzes FOI heavily with hypothetical students of different ages and backgrounds. Know your acronyms like REEPIR and MIICCCEE, but be ready to explain each in context. Section topics included night operations and runway incursion avoidance against the CFI ACS. The detailed first-hand write-ups carry the rest.