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Checkride Guide for Squadron 14

Revised 12 MAY 2009

Getting Started…

  • Sign-on to the National HQ e-Services web site, request a password and ID (click on New first-time user link)
  • Read the e-Services and Operations Qualifications Guide.
  • Enter in all of your Pilot qualifications using the Pilot module using the My Operations Qualifications / National Reports application (airman certificate information and medical at the very least) for validation. Then e-mail Capt Robert Gary (SQ14 Flight Operations Officer) to let him know it is awaiting validation and fax your documents to 916-910-6323 or scan and email your documents to ops-forms@sq14.cawg.cap.gov so he can validate them online. This must be done before you fly.
  • Talk with one of our instructor pilots, Capt Cory Johnson, Capt Larry Peterson, Capt Bill Slavensky, or Capt Robert Gary and ask them what the ground/flight training requirements are for a checkout in our 2005 C-182T NAV III aircraft (also see CAPR 60-1 para 3-3 a7) and inquire into their availability to fly with you.
  • CAWG/DOV (Standardization/Evaluation) has listed the requirements for a G1000 checkout in CAWG Operating Instruction 33.
  • The usual suggestion is to order the G1000 PC Trainer for Cessna NAV III, version 8.20 software from Garmin ($24.95) and buy Max Trescott’s G1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook. Your instructor can also supply you with a copy of the FITS transition syllabus. The airplane also came with some DVD’s you can watch. You can also download and print the G1000 manuals and purchase the C-182T NAV III Airplane Information Manual from a local FBO or online. Lastly, hooking up the GPU and running the G1000 system in the actual airplane is invaluable.
  • Review the CAP Garmin G1000 Glass Cockpits training page. Note that N718CP does not have the Garmin GFC-700 autopilot, it has a Bendix-King KAP-140. N718CP also does not have a Flight Director, Safe Taxi, Jeppesen approach plates or the SAR Feature. Be familiar with these differences as N948CP at PAO does have this stuff.
  • Contact the Aircraft Manager for N718CP Capt Herb Foster for local aircraft scheduling procedures and review SQ14 Operation Instruction 09-03.
  • Review the WMU User Guide sections 1, 5 and 7 as both aircraft scheduling and flight releases are done using the WMU (Wing Management Utilities). If this is your first time logging into WMU, click on the Member button and when prompted, enter your CAPID and leave the password field blank. When you click the logon button WMU will prompt you to complete your registration as a first–time user.
  • Obtain a flight release and schedule the aircraft in WMU if you will be acting as PIC (otherwise the Instructor / Check Pilot will need to schedule the aircraft and enter and obtain the release as PIC). The PIC must obtain a flight release from a unit FRO (flight release officer) before any CAP flight. To obtain a flight release, login to the WMU as a Member and click on the Assisted CAPF 99 Flight Release button and enter the requested data. Then call an FRO for a verbal release prior to your flight or if you need help entering the release. Within 2 hours of completing your flight, it is essential to close out the flight release by calling the FRO and then going back into WMU and entering your Hobbs time, ending tach, oil and fuel (gallons and cost). SQ14 FRO’s are Capt Herb Foster, Capt David Strannard and Lt Col John Aylesworth.
  • You must wear a CAP uniform while on a CAP flight activity of any kind (the only exception is CD flights when specified by the customer). For proficiency flights, the blue polo/golf shirt uniform is acceptable. However, if you are a mission qualified aircrew, the flight suit is encouraged instead as it is not uncommon for your proficiency flight to turn into an actual mission. Nomex flight suits are required by CAWG for actual SAR/DR missions.
  • Complete the Aircraft Ground Handling Video and Exam (mandatory by 1 SEP 2009). Review the guide here and then to complete the course, login to CAP e-services and select CAP MultiMedia (you will leave the e-services site). From the next screen, choose Video Courses. Be sure to complete the exam at the end and print/save your certificate (completion is automatically recorded on e-services however).

Before your Checkride…

  • Thoroughly review CAPR 60-1 “CAP Flight Management”, Assessments for Damage to CAP Aircraft letter, and the Stan/Eval webpage,
  • Complete the CAPR 60-1 Form 5 Annual Examination – Powered online exam (have CAPR 60-1 open in Adobe Acrobat while you take the exam, and use the “binoculars” search icon to search for key phrases to check your answers). This must be done before your check ride and is good for 60 days (e.g. you must take your checkride within 60 days of taking the online exam).
  • Consider including Cadet Orientation Pilot if you have > 200 hours PIC (>300 PIC for AFROTC). Review CAPP 52-7, FY09 AFROTC/AFJROTC Flight Orientation Program, and take the Cadet Orientation Pilot online exam (with or without AFROTC as appropriate).
  • Fill in all but the flight check portion of a CAP Form 5 and check all the applicable boxes at the top. If you anticipate flying a CAP aircraft in IMC then check the Instrument box and be prepared to demonstrate instrument proficiency. If you have 200+ hours PIC time, then check the Cadet Orientation Pilot box so you can fly cadets on Orientation Flights. Also, complete an aircraft questionnaire (in original ink) for each model of aircraft, sign the Statement of Understanding in CAPR 60-1 Attachment 1, complete a CAWG Form 118 Pilot Data Summary (for your Initial CAP Form 5 and if requesting Instructor, Check Pilot or Mission Check Pilot) and take with you along with your logbook and copies of all your pilot documents to the check ride. Bring your copy of CAPR 60-1 also.
  • Schedule a CAP Form 5 check ride with Capt Cory Johnson, Capt Larry Peterson, Capt Bill Slavensky, Capt Robert Gary or Lt Col Ray Spengler (see listing of Current CAWG Check Pilots.)
  • Schedule the aircraft in WMU. Use an appropriate mission symbol such as C17.
  • Request a Flight Release using the WMU and by calling a FRO (see section above). Use an appropriate mission symbol such as C17.
  • Be prepared to show evidence of passenger carrying currency (logbook entries)

After Your Checkride…

  • See the List of Documents below and be sure that all documents are completed and signed
  • Remember, you are not yet a CAP Pilot, and cannot act as PIC in CAP aircraft, until the SQ14 Flight Operations Officer (Capt Robert Gary) has copies of all your paperwork, validated all of your pilot qualifications and you are approved as a CAP VFR Pilot in e-services. Once this is all done, you can then act as PIC and can wear the CAP Pilot aeronautical rating (wings). You need to let Capt Gary know that there are items to validate in e-services by calling him and faxing your documents to 916-910-6323 or scanning and emailing your documents to ops-forms@sq14.cawg.cap.gov.

List of Documents (“Form 5 Package”)
The following documents or copies need to be supplied to the Check Pilot and Flight Operations Officer after your checkride is completed.

  • CAP Form 5 (signed by both pilot and checkpilot, make sure the date of your checkride is in the upper right corner, the check pilot has listed all aircraft you have completed and graded Aircraft Questionnaires for on the reverse, and that Additional CAP Endorsements have been checked for things like Cadet Orientation Pilot, etc.)
  • Aircraft Questionnaires for each aircraft you are maintaining currency in (original ink, signed and graded by checkpilot)
  • Certificate of Completion for CAPR 60-1 Form 5 Annual Examination – Powered online exam
  • Statement of Understanding (signed)
  • CAWG Form 118 Pilot Data Summary (for your Initial CAPF 5 checkride and/or if requesting Instructor, Check Pilot or Mission Check Pilot)
  • CAWG Form 117 to apply for Instructor or Check Pilot status
  • Airman’s Certificate
  • Instructor Certificate(s)
  • Current Medical Certificate
  • Recent Flight Review (BFR) logbook endorsement or WINGS program phase completion certificate, etc.
  • CAP Membership card
  • G1000 Ground School (course completion documentation showing completion of an approved Cessna 8-hour G-1000 course)

Author: Lt Col John Aylesworth CAP