102/25 Stage Check (Undergrad) -- KEIJ

Student/ID: _________________________ Recommending Instructor: ____________

General Information

☐ Crosscheck AIMS records

☐ AIMS endorsement valid (60 days)
☐ Logbook
☐ Required documents/certificates

Examiner rules of conduct:

● Standards for this stage check are in accordance with the Private Pilot ACS
● Stage 12 was asking you questions as a student pilot -- almost all questions I ask today
are about ​private pilots​.
● Perfection is not expected or required. You may use your resources
● I will be taking notes throughout the check
● Three outcomes:
○ Satisfactory -- End goal, meet or exceed ACS standards
○ Unsatisfactory -- do not meet ACS standards, large knowledge gaps
■ I will let you know right away
○ Incomplete -- Illness, time constraints, power outage
● Please let me know if you do not understand the question!
● If you would like to take a break at any time, let me know
● The stage check is now beginning, we will take a break halfway through

V-Speeds & Emergencies

1. V-Speeds
a. Student can list all v-speeds
i. What is the difference between Vs and Vso?
ii. What is the difference between Vx and Vy?
1. What situations would I use each?
iii. What is cruise climb?
iv. What is Vo?
1. What situation would I use Vo?
b. Student can identify v-speeds on an airspeed indicator
2. Emergencies
a. Student can list all memory items for given emergency procedures
i. Engine failure during flight
1. Explain the reason behind each step in the procedure
2. Why do we pitch for 76 KIAS?
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3. How does wind affect our glide distance? Flaps?

ii. Engine fire in flight
1. How do you know the difference between engine/electrical fire?
2. Explain the reason behind each step in the procedure
iii. Spin recovery
1. What is a spin?
2. What are the different phases of a spin?
3. Give me an example of a flight situation where an unintentional
spin could occur
4. Explain the reason behind each step in the procedure
iv. Emergency descent
1. What is the purpose of an emergency descent?
2. Give me a situation where I would want to do this maneuver
3. If my engine was on fire what would I do differently?
v. Stabilized approach
1. In your own words, what is a stabilized approach?

UND Safety Policies & Procedures

1. What is the UND rule regarding flying and alcohol?

a. What if I still have a hangover?
2. (Winter only) What clothing is required when temperatures are below freezing?
3. (Winter only) What should you do if there is frost or snow on the aircraft?
4. Are you allowed to take pictures on your solo XC?
5. Are you allowed to text your CFI if you have a question on a solo?
6. How fast may you taxi while on the ramp?
7. How much fuel reserve is required on UND flights?
8. As a student pilot, what is required to be “UND Current” to solo?
9. What is the highest wind you are allowed to fly in?
10. What are ​your​ personal weather minimums for a solo XC?
11. Are you required to file a flight plan?
12. Are there any restrictions on what airports you can go to on your solo XC?
13. If something happens and you get stuck in another airport, what would you do?

Certificates and Documents

1. As a private pilot, what documents are you required to bring with you on your flights?
2. Show me your medical certificate, when does it expire?
a. What does first, second, and third class mean?
3. Are you required to log every flight as a private pilot?
a. What do you need to log?
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b. When can you log night time?

4. Once you get my private pilot certificate, what is required to maintain currency?
a. What do I need to be night current?
b. What is a flight review?
5. Do you have to do anything if your address changes?
6. What are you allowed to do with a private pilot certificate?
7. What are you not allowed to do with a private pilot certificate?
8. The flight school back home only has one plane, an SR22. It’s a fast plane with a 310hp
engine, can you legally rent it?
9. Your friend finds out you are a pilot and asks you to fly him to Minneapolis next weekend
and ditch your plans of studying for your stage check. He says he will pay for the flight, is
this legal?
a. What if you split costs (pro rata)?
b. What is common purpose?

Airworthiness Requirements

1. What documents are required to be on board the aircraft (MARROWG)?

a. MEL (if applicable)
i. What is an MEL?
ii. Do the Archers at UND have one?
b. Airworthiness certificate
i. How long is this valid?
ii. Where can I find this on the UND Archer?
c. Registration (state/federal)
i. How long is the federal registration valid?
ii. Where can I find this on the UND Archer?
d. Radio license (international)
i. When is this required?
e. Operators handbook (POH)
i. Is my Pubs app or paper copy good enough?
ii. Why not?
f. Weight & balance
i. Does AIMS count?
g. GPS manual
2. What inspections are required for the airplane to stay airworthy?
a. Annual
i. Do all airplanes need this inspection?
ii. How often is this required?
b. VOR
i. Is this required if we are VFR? (Only ask if student brings it up)
c. 100 Hour
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i. Do all airplanes need this inspection?

ii. Can this count as an annual inspection?
d. Altimeter/Pitot Static System
i. Is this required if we are VFR? (Only ask if student brings it up)
e. Transponder
i. How often is this required?
f. ELT
i. What is that and what does it do?
ii. How often is this inspection required?
3. Does UND use this system for inspections?
a. What do they use?
b. Can anybody do phase inspections?
c. How do you know if UND’s planes have had their maintenance inspections?
4. Do these inspections need to be logged?
a. Where?
5. What is an airworthiness directive?
a. Where can I find one? Show me.
6. What is a service bulletin?
a. Describe how it is different from an AD
7. As pilots, are we allowed to perform any maintenance on our aircraft?
a. What is preventative maintenance?
b. Can you give me a couple of examples?
8. On preflight, you find the pitot heat wasn’t working. No MEL. Can you still fly?
a. What do you have to do?
b. Where can I find the KOEL? Show me
c. How would you placard/deactivate it?
9. You took a trip to the Piney Pinecreek Airport in Northern MN on the US/Canada border.
On preflight you notice the anticollision lights are not working. There is no maintenance
at the airport. Can you still fly?
a. Is there any way we can get special approval?
b. How?
c. How long can I fly with my anticollision lights out?

Performance and Limitations

1. How is lift created?
a. Newton’s 3rd law
b. Bernoulli’s Principle
2. What are the different types of drag?
3. What is camber of the wing? Can we change it?
4. What is CG?
a. What happens when it moves forward or aft?
5. What causes a wing to stall?
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6. How does temperature affect takeoff distance?

7. How does weight affect takeoff distance?
8. Do we typically want to land with a headwind or tailwind? Why?
9. What are some factors about the runway that would increase my landing distance?
10. What is true airspeed?
11. What is the maximum takeoff and landing weights for the airplane?
12. How much does one gallon of avgas weigh?
13. Explain the left turning tendencies of an aircraft.
a. P-Factor
b. Torque
c. Spiraling slipstream
14. Is the Archer considered a stable or unstable airplane? What does this mean?

Operation of Systems
Pick THREE systems:
1. Electrical
a. Before start, what is the primary source of electrical power?
b. What about after start?
i. How many volts is the battery?
ii. Where is the battery located on the airplane?
iii. How is the battery charged?
iv. Is the alternator always running?
v. How do you know if it has failed?
vi. Do we have another battery if ours fails?
vii. What does that power?
viii. What is an essential bus? Can you name some things powered by it?
ix. How long would that last us?
2. Deicing/Anti-icing
a. Do we have de-ice or anti-ice on the Archer?
b. What is the difference?
c. What sources of anti-ice do we have?
d. Are we allowed to fly into icing conditions? How do you know (POH Section 2)
3. Fuel, oil, and hydraulic
a. What type of fuel can we use in our airplane?
b. How much fuel can we hold?
c. How does fuel get into the cylinders?
d. How many fuel pumps are on the aircraft? What if one fails?
e. What do you look for when sumping fuel on preflight?
f. What does oil do for the engine?
g. How much oil do we need?
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h. If my oil pressure was low, what could I expect to happen?

i. What do we have on our airplane that uses hydraulics?
j. How would you know if the hydraulics needed to be refilled?
4. Powerplant and propeller
a. What kind of engine do we have?
b. What does horizontally opposed, fuel injected, direct drive, etc. mean?
c. How does our engine produce thrust?
d. How does fuel get into the cylinders?
e. What if my air intake becomes blocked, what can I do?
f. What is different about the alternate air and why should I not take off with it on?
5. Environmental
a. How do we get fresh air into the cabin?
b. How do we get heated air into the cabin?
i. What if there was a hole in the shroud?
ii. How would you identify and correct CO poisoning?

VFR Cross-Country Flight Planning & Weight and Balance

KPKD-KMIC -- as assigned prior to the oral exam
1. Calculate weight/balance for XC scenario
a. UND Archer N650ND (BEW 1685.2 lbs, moment 149,275.7 in-lb)
b. Your weight
c. Two friends who weigh 175 and 190 each
d. 30 lbs of baggage
2. Are we within CG restrictions? (82-93 in)
a. How do you know? Show me.
3. Where can you find runway lengths?
4. What preflight actions are required by the FARs?
a. NW KRAFT
5. What is the lowest altitude you can fly over congested and non congested areas?
6. How did you calculate the fuel numbers?
a. How much fuel are we required to land with? UND vs. FAA
7. How did you pick your checkpoints and route?
8. How will you know if you have enough fuel to make it to KMIC?
9. How did you pick your altitude?
a. Glide distance, terrain, cruising altitudes, wind
10. How would you open and close your VFR flight plan?
11. Any NOTAMs along your route?

National Airspace System

1. Discuss KPKD uncontrolled airspace

a. Weather minimums
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2. What kind of airspace is along your route for cruise flight?

a. Weather minimums
3. Discuss R-4301
4. Discuss KSTC Class D airspace along route
5. Discuss Mode C veil and Class B
a. Weather minimums
6. Discuss underlying class D airspace
a. Weather minimums
7. What if you are not cleared into the Class B?
8. Discuss Prohibited Areas in NE MN
9. Discuss SFRA

Weather Information

1. What sources did you use to receive your weather information?

2. Have student pull up a weather briefing from 1800-WX-BRIEF and ask questions based
on the briefing
3. Do we have anything in the Archer to help monitor weather?

Airport and Runway Markings

1. On an electronic device, pull up AOPA ASI Runway Safety Flash Cards

a. Hold short line
b. Runway approach area holding position sign
c. Taxiway direction sign
d. Runway distance remaining sign
e. Displaced threshold