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About Written Endorsements

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Hey guys.  

I am really curious about written endorsements. My flight school requests to me show them at least three-times 90 score practical test before actual written exam. 

I am a part 141 student. When I try to practical wtitten exam using  school computer’s program, my instructor supervised behine me. And he has charged me for that supervised time. 

Is this normal? Most of flight school do that? 

I am just wondering, other school do that? 

 

 

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  1. KDS on Aug 25, 2018

    There is no regulatory requirement related to the standards a school must use before giving an endorsement. However, they can make the requirements more stringent if they choose to do so.

    The question that comes to my mind is what value added do they feel it is to have an instructor monitor your practice test. Is the instructor coaching you as you go through the questions? It doesn’t sound like it. Are they afraid you would cheat? That is a pretty far-fetched fear. What student wouldn’t sit there and take the test again and again for practice if there were no expense involved. It doesn’t meet the common sense test. Beyond that, if they are a testing center, they have monitoring systems in place. They wouldn’t be approved if they didn’t. If they aren’t, there is no reason to put an instructor in there when a lower paid proctor could do the same function.

    I’ve never come across a Part 141 school that has a requirement like that.

    Many people who learn at Part 141 schools do so because their funding is dependent upon it. For example, a GI Bill student only receives money from the Veterans Administration if they attend a Part 141 school. Other government agencies do similar things. For the student, particularly one in a rural area, that means that the choice of flight schools may be very limited. As a result, the student is somewhat tied to that school and subject to whatever they may choose to do to him.

    Hopefully some other people can add their experience in that area, but my experience makes me view a school that does such a thing in an unfavorable light.

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