Hello, I have my commercial check ride next week. My problem is I am terrified to make a mistake on front of my cfi. When I am flying with a friend who also is a pilot I am confident and in control. With my cfi I feel like after anything I say he will correct me in some way. He says I am his best flight wise. But he has no idea how much effin pressure I feel every time I set foot in that airplane. I feel the only reason I may be the best of his students is because I think of every single word before I say it and think of every action in huge detail before I do it. By doing so I fall behind when thrown into unusual situations such as diversions. Today he had me divert to an airport while I was practicing my commercial maneuvers. My brain instantly locked. I was scared to make a mistake and not do the proper steps. This is pretty much how my brain went today when he told me to divert to an airport that I was directly over. Divert? wtf. Where am I? Shoot you already know where you are idiot. Ok atis..not yet. Gotta lose some altitude, while getting the atis. Decent check, should I still be circling? Ok get the atis on. Runway 1.. great, never landed on rwy 1 before. Right traffic, ok think about it, think how I would do right pattern at your home airport. Blank tower cessna 123 directly over head at 4000 inbound to land with papa. Ill cut to the landing now. I landed fine. Pulled off the active and realized I did not know what ground freq was. So I asked the tower and said " blank tower cessna 123 off rwy......hang on." I forgot what runway I was off of so I released the mic and came back on with the correct runway. Then taxied to hold short and tried to make my request to the tower only to find that I was requesting my take off clearance to all of the surrounding practice areas. I switched to tower and continued on my pathetic day from hell. This crap happens with my CFI for some reason. I have never done well in a test situation and every time I fly with him I treat it as a test. I want to do excellent, and make him proud. Instead I think like a turd on a stick. Does anyone have any advice for me? And This is a serious question, I just really suck at writing.
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