Log and Report on Checkride Exams

Checkride functionality allows your school to log and track official FAA checkride exam attempts for Part 61 and Part 141 courses. Once enabled, exam results can be viewed at the course level and aggregated in a centralized Checkride Tracking report.

Step by Step

Enable Checkrides for a Course

To enable checkride exams for a course, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Settings > Curriculum > Courses.

2. Click Edit next to the course for which you want to enable checkride logging.

3. Make sure the course Regulation is set to “USA Part 61” or “USA Part 141.”

4. Scroll to the Course Structure section.

5. Toggle Checkride to ON.
   

   • Note: You can enable checkrides for existing Live courses that already contain enrollments.

6. Click Save to update the course. A Checkride option will now be available as an Exam option for the course.

Log a Checkride Exam for a Student

To log a checkride exam, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the student’s Course Overview and click the Exams tab.

2. Click Log Exam, then select Checkride Exam. The Checkride exam view is displayed.
   

   • Notes:
     • For Part 141 courses, the student must be graduated before a checkride can be logged.
     • For Part 61 courses, the student must have all required lessons completed OR they must have graduated before a checkride can be logged.

3. Complete the required fields:

   • Endorsement Instructor (required and defaults to the instructor who recommended the student's graduation, if applicable)

   • DPE (optional)

   • Date Taken (required)

   • Airport (optional)

   • Attempt Number (auto-calculated)

4. Enter results for both the Ground and Flight components of the exam:

   • Optionally, add notes specific to Ground or Flight.

5. Set the Overall Result:

   • Notes:

     • The Overall Result is defaulted based on the grades you select for the Ground and Flight portions of the exam. 

     • An overall passing result cannot be selected unless both sections are passed.

6. Optionally, add additional notes in the Notes field.

7. Optionally, upload an attachment in the Upload File field.

8. Click Save to log the exam. The exam is available in the Exams list and in the Checkride Tracking report.
   

View Checkride Status

Once a student‘s progress meets checkride eligibility requirements, that student's checkride status is available. To view a student's checkride status, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the student's Course Overview page. The status is displayed in the gray summary box.
   
   
2. Alternatively, view the Progress column for the student in the Students list.
   • Notes:
     • Checkride Status is displayed only if:
       • The course is Part 141 and the student’s enrollment status is Graduated.
         OR
       • The course is Part 61 and the student has passed all required lessons or is Graduated.

View the Checkride Tracking Report

To report against logged checkrides, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Reports > Training.

2. Click Checkride Tracking
   
    

   • Note:

     • The Checkride Tracking report is available only if Training Hub is enabled, the company authority is FAA-USA, and you have the permission View Curriculum Reports permission.

3. Apply desired filters:

   • Note:

     • To see first time pass rates, select 1 in the Attempt Number filter.
       
     • Applying multiple filter selections will narrow the list down to only checkride exams that meet all of your selected criteria.

4. Review summary statistics.

   • Note:

     • Exams are sorted by most recent at the top of the list.

5. Optionally, click Export to download filtered data as a CSV file.

Coming Soon

The following functionality is not yet available, but is coming soon:

• The ability to select an external DPE when logging a checkride for a student, and to view reporting results filtered to selected DPEs.
• The ability to view checkride due dates for Part 141 courses.
• The ability to view checkride statuses on the Students list.
• The ability to upload an attachment for a checkride exam.

Permission Needed

• You must have Training Hub enabled to access checkride functionality.

• Checkride functionality is only available for courses with Regulation set to Part 61 or Part 141.

• A student’s course overview (and therefore their exams) can be accessed only by the following users:

  • The student
  • The student’s instructors for the course
  • Users with the permission View All Student Enrollments
• Checkride exams can be logged or edited only by the following users:
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  • The student’s instructor(s) for the course
  • Users with the permission Log All Student Sessions

• The Checkride Tracking report is available only for companies whose Aviation Authority is FAA-USA and for users with the permission View Curriculum Reports.

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• See View and Log Student Exams for more information about logging custom course exams.