Commercial pilot checkride prep
Know what the examiner will ask before you walk in.
Video lessons, examiner-style oral prep and a readiness score for the FAA commercial checkride. Built by a working CFI from the ACS and from what examiners asked on real checkrides.
The problem
You're doing the work. So why don't you feel ready?
If you're training for your commercial certificate, some of this will sound familiar.
There's too much to learn
Regulations, weather, airspace, performance, systems. The pile keeps growing and nobody tells you which parts the examiner cares about.
Every hour costs money
Flight time and ground time both go on the bill. Paying your instructor to explain something you could have learned at home hurts.
Lessons go to flying
Many instructors are building hours for their own airline job. Time in the airplane comes first, and the ground knowledge is left to you.
A failure follows you
A failed checkride stays on your record, and airlines ask about it. After this much time and money, that's the outcome you're most afraid of.
Nothing at home is built for the checkride
You study on your own from handbooks, forums and old videos. None of it tells you how the oral will sound or what a good answer is.
You can't tell if you're ready
Big goals, steady pressure, and no way to measure where you stand until the examiner is sitting across the table.
You don't need more material. You need to know what you'll be asked, and proof that you can answer it.
Get early accessWhat's inside
Four ways CheckrideIntel gets you ready.
Everything is built on two things: the commercial pilot ACS, and debriefs from students after their real checkrides.
Video lessons that follow the ACS
Short lessons that teach one thing at a time, in plain language, the way a good instructor explains it at the airplane.
- Organized by ACS task, so you always know what a lesson is for
- Illustrations and worked examples instead of walls of text
- Watch at home, then spend your paid hours flying
Oral prep that sounds like the real thing
Each round asks a question the way an examiner would, pauses so you can answer out loud, then gives you the answer an examiner expects to hear.
- Questions drawn from what examiners asked on real checkrides
- A real pause, so you practice saying it and not only reading it
- Answers phrased the way you should say them
You passed your commercial checkride, but you have no instrument rating. A friend offers to pay you to fly him 80 miles tonight. Can you take the flight?
Start the pause, then answer out loud.
No. Without an instrument rating, a commercial pilot can't carry passengers for hire at night, or on cross-country flights of more than 50 nautical miles. This flight breaks both limits.
Aircraft systems you'll remember
Every systems episode opens with a real incident. Then it shows how the system works, how it fails and what the examiner will ask you about it.
- POH schematics redrawn so you can read them
- Illustrations of the parts you never get to see
- Cessna 172 and Piper PA-28 compared side by side
Quizzes, games and a readiness score
Test yourself as you go. Your checkride readiness percentage shows how prepared you are, topic by topic, so you know what to study next.
- Quizzes and games that make review feel less like homework
- One number that tells you where you stand
- Weak areas flagged before the examiner finds them
See a sample
Watch one episode before you decide.
One full lesson from the course, exactly as students will see it.
Placeholder for one episode or a short clip
Who built this
I'm Sharon. I teach people to fly for a living.
I'm a Certified Flight Instructor, and I built CheckrideIntel from what I see with my own students every week.
They're smart and they work hard. They still walk toward the checkride unsure of what they'll be asked, studying from material that was never written for the checkride.
So after their checkrides, we asked students to tell us everything: what the examiner asked, how the questions were worded and what caught them off guard.
CheckrideIntel is built from those debriefs and from the ACS, turned into lessons you can study at home, at your own pace, before you pay for another hour.
Sharon, CFI and founder
Early access
Join as a founding student.
CheckrideIntel is opening to a small first group. Pricing isn't final yet. Joining the list is free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- First inFounding students get access before the course opens to everyone else.
- Founding priceA lower price than the public launch price, for people on this list only.
- A say in what gets builtTell me what you're stuck on. Founding students shape the next lessons.
Questions
Before you sign up.
When does CheckrideIntel open?
Early access opens to the list first. There's no public date yet. If you're on the list, you'll get one email the day it opens.
How much will it cost?
Pricing isn't final. Founding students will get a lower price than the public launch price. Joining the list is free.
Does this replace my flight instructor?
No. Your instructor trains you in the airplane and signs you off for the checkride. CheckrideIntel is the ground preparation you do at home, so your paid lessons can go to flying.
Which airplanes does it cover?
The systems episodes compare the Cessna 172 and the Piper PA-28 side by side. The rest of the course, such as regulations, weather and airspace, applies whatever you fly.
Does it cover the flight portion of the checkride?
The course focuses on the knowledge side: the oral exam and the understanding behind it. Your maneuvers are trained with your instructor in the airplane.
Where do the questions come from?
From two places. The ACS sets what an examiner can test. Debriefs from students after their real checkrides show what examiners ask in practice and how they ask it. The course is built from both.
Walk in ready.
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