To set up your test appointment, please follow the steps below. Don’t hesitate to contact Bo with any questions or concerns you may have.
1. Complete the required training. You CANNOT be scheduled until all training requirements of FAR Part 61 or 141 have been completed, IACRA application has been submitted with an Instructor recommendation (as required).
2. All required endorsements for the practical test must be completed and entered in your pilot logbook by your flight instructor.
3. If applying for an Instrument Rating, assure your Instrument Flight Instructor places CFII on the entries to be counted as instructional hours.
4. Complete and submit your application in IACRA, which should include an Instructor recommendation if required.
5. Obtain and complete the “Information Request Form“. You must be signed off and in IACRA prior to completing this form. Email the form to bocorby@gmail.com
NOTE: Sending an Information Form does not guarantee an appointment. If you book an appointment with another examiner, please advise you no longer need to be on my list.
6. I will notify you when a test date comes available.
The Scheduling Process: I no longer offer a date-selecting calendar to schedule you. This is due to the unpredictable nature of my schedule, making the time to get on my schedule impossible to project.
The weather is always a factor and delays will occur.
I do not book out more than 2 weeks ahead to allow those candidates that are already scheduled an opportunity to get back on the schedule if a weather or other related delay takes place.
Details
State*Washington
Flying At/Near These Airport(s)
KRNT – Renton Municipal Airport (RNT), Renton, Washington
KBFI – King County International Airport / Boeing Field (BFI), Seattle, Washington
KSEA – Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, Washington
S36 – Crest Airpark (S36), Kent, Washington
KTIW – Tacoma Narrows Airport (TIW), Gig Harbor, Washington
Private Pilot Single Engine $1,000
Private Pilot Multi Engine $1,000
Commercial Single Engine Land $1,000
Commercial Multi Engine Land $1,000
Commercial Instrument Multi Engine Airplane $1,000
ATP Single Engine Land $1,000
ATP Multi Engine Land $1,000
Citation 500 Series Initial Type Rating $3,500
Citation 650 Initial Type Rating $3,500
Falcon 50/900 Initial Type Rating $3,500
Lear 40/45/75 Initial Type Rating $3,500
Certified Flight Instructor $1,500
Certificated Flight Instructor – Multi Engine $1,300
Certificated Flight Instructor – Instrument Airplane $1,300
As a very young lad from the farmlands of SE Pennsylvania, I became enamored with aviation around the age of 5. Airliners departing the Philadelphia airport would fly right over our farm and it was impossible not to watch them with envy of the people getting to ride in the huge silver beasts climbing high into the sky. I knew immediately where I wanted to be in life.
If you dream long enough about something, it usually comes true, as it did for me. A round Robin of sorts, starting in General Aviation, progressing to the airlines with eventual retirement in 2006. And then as luck would have it, got really fortunate and was able to continue in the Corporate world for the past 15 years or so. And as I get older, slipping back into general aviation completes the round robin of experience. Life is funny that way, as you start an aviation career it seems the aircraft keep getting progressively larger until you reach the pinnacle and then they get progressively smaller as you age.
This wonderful journey afforded me opportunities to experience many things few men or women ever get to see in a lifetime. Some of these include flying mail for the US Postal Service in Beechcraft 18’s, Flight Instructing for a Major University, working as a young instructor in the flight crew training center of Boeing Aircraft, living in the Middle East, Africa, England, Germany flying Boeing 707’s and 727’s. Then on to a small airline named Hughes Airwest, which merged into Republic Airlines and eventually Northwest Airlines. While there I was lucky enough to make Captain, Instructor, Check Airman, ALPA Training Committee Chairman and Mentor to a lot of young pilots fresh out of simulator training and on the line for the first time.
Along the way I was fortunate to pick up Type Ratings in the A-320, B-727, B-737, B-747-4, B-757, B-767, B-777, BE-350 DC-3, DC-9, DC-10, C-650, G-100 and LR-45/75. Most import was opportunities to fly a wide variety of general aviation aircraft; Piper, Cessna, Mooney, Beechcraft, Pilatus and many more. You might say it’s been a wild ride over the past 60 years.
I’ve lost friends over the years, either due to mechanical failures and of course a few human failures too, due to weather, lack of experience or judgement. As an evaluator, my bottom line was and is “will you stay alive long enough to gain the experience necessary to keep you alive.” It’s the last question I ask myself when exiting the aircraft after an evaluation event.
As a DPE and representative of the FAA, I have an obligation to assure the spot check called “Practical Test” accomplishes its objective of proper training in knowledge, risk assessment with mitigation and skill attributes. But most importantly, I must also be able to assure myself that you are going to exercise good judgement and decision making after being certified. Nothing is more satisfying to a certifying official than seeing this all come together. It is rewarding to be part of this experience for the applicant.
As a very young lad from the farmlands of SE Pennsylvania, I became enamored with aviation around the age of 5. Airliners departing the Philadelphia airport would fly right over our farm and it was impossible not to watch them with envy of the people getting to ride in the huge silver beasts climbing high into the sky. I knew immediately where I wanted to be in life.
If you dream long enough about something, it usually comes true, as it did for me. A round Robin of sorts, starting in General Aviation, progressing to the airlines with eventual retirement in 2006. And then as luck would have it, got really fortunate and was able to continue in the Corporate world for the past 15 years or so. And as I get older, slipping back into general aviation completes the round robin of experience. Life is funny that way, as you start an aviation career it seems the aircraft keep getting progressively larger until you reach the pinnacle and then they get progressively smaller as you age.
This wonderful journey afforded me opportunities to experience many things few men or women ever get to see in a lifetime. Some of these include flying mail for the US Postal Service in Beechcraft 18’s, Flight Instructing for a Major University, working as a young instructor in the flight crew training center of Boeing Aircraft, living in the Middle East, Africa, England, Germany flying Boeing 707’s and 727’s. Then on to a small airline named Hughes Airwest, which merged into Republic Airlines and eventually Northwest Airlines. While there I was lucky enough to make Captain, Instructor, Check Airman, ALPA Training Committee Chairman and Mentor to a lot of young pilots fresh out of simulator training and on the line for the first time.
Along the way I was fortunate to pick up Type Ratings in the A-320, B-727, B-737, B-747-4, B-757, B-767, B-777, BE-350 DC-3, DC-9, DC-10, C-650, G-100 and LR-45/75. Most import was opportunities to fly a wide variety of general aviation aircraft; Piper, Cessna, Mooney, Beechcraft, Pilatus and many more. You might say it’s been a wild ride over the past 60 years.
I’ve lost friends over the years, either due to mechanical failures and of course a few human failures too, due to weather, lack of experience or judgement. As an evaluator, my bottom line was and is “will you stay alive long enough to gain the experience necessary to keep you alive.” It’s the last question I ask myself when exiting the aircraft after an evaluation event.
As a DPE and representative of the FAA, I have an obligation to assure the spot check called “Practical Test” accomplishes its objective of proper training in knowledge, risk assessment with mitigation and skill attributes. But most importantly, I must also be able to assure myself that you are going to exercise good judgement and decision making after being certified. Nothing is more satisfying to a certifying official than seeing this all come together. It is rewarding to be part of this experience for the applicant.
