Sentence examples for check ride from inspiring English sources

He said FAA inspectors have reviewed Corsair's aircraft and conducted a successful proficiency check ride to its pilot.

On or about Aug. 17, 2001, Ziad al-Jarrah undertook a "check ride" at a flight school in Fort Lauderdale, Fla .76.

Mr. Atta and Mr. Shehhi had meanwhile just taken a flight check ride around Decatur, Ga., and joined a gym there.

41. Between on or about Feb. 1, 2001, and on or about Feb. 15, 2001, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi took a flight check ride around Decatur, Georgia.

Several experts said that among the pieces of good luck for the flight was that the captain was undergoing a "check ride" — meaning a more senior captain was aboard to evaluate his performance — and that the checker was being observed by yet another senior captain.

On Tuesday it said Captain Renslow had lied on his job application by listing only one of the three times that he had failed a hands-on proficiency exam, called a check ride, and that the airline was hampered by insufficiencies in a federal law intended to help carriers gather information like that on job applicants.

After Colgan hired Captain Renslow, he failed two more check rides, but eventually was certified to fly the Dash 8, the plane that crashed.

The captain in the crash outside Buffalo had failed three in-cockpit exams, called "check rides," before he came to Colgan, but Colgan knew about only one.

The Committee also shall make recommendations with respect to the regulatory and policy changes if necessary to allow a designated pilot examiner perform a daily limit of 3 new check rides with no limit for partial check rides and to serve as a designed pilot examiner without regard to any individual managing office.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the captain, Marvin Renslow, had failed five "check rides," or hands-on tests, conducted in a cockpit or a simulator, before the Feb. 12 crash.

He had struggled in training, failing several check rides, though he eventually trained to proficiency.