Built by pilots
who’ve been
short an hour.
Checkride.io is an independent pre-checkride readiness system. We assemble the readiness packet a DPE will walk through — § 61.109(a) experience audited against the FARs and the ACS, plus endorsements, knowledge test, credentials, application, and aircraft — so applicants walk into the oral knowing exactly what their DPE will see.
Why this exists
Pilots routinely show up to a checkride short on a single line item: 0.4 hours of simulated instrument, one solo cross-country leg under 50 NM, a missed night-currency window. The cost is a no-show, a re-scheduling fee, and weeks of lost momentum — over something a spreadsheet could have caught months earlier.
We built checkride.io because the source of truth (your logbook) and the requirement (FAR § 61.109(a) and the ACS) are both static, public documents. Reconciling them should be a five-minute audit, not a last-week-of-training scramble.
What we do
- Parse logbook exports from ForeFlight and MyFlightbook CSV today. Scanned PDFs and LogTen Pro are next on the manifest.
- Audit every line of FAR § 61.109(a) for the Private Pilot ASEL checkride against the parsed flights, with each requirement cross-referenced to a specific page in the source logbook.
- Surface the rest of the DPE-desk packet alongside the experience audit — endorsements (AC 61-65J), knowledge test, pilot credentials, application, and aircraft — so the applicant and CFI can confirm them rather than miss them.
- Hand back a one-pager for the checkride desk, a detailed multi-page report, and prep recommendations for every shortfall.
The hours rules are auto-verified today. Items the engine cannot safely decide from a logbook export — endorsement signatures, the IACRA application, aircraft maintenance status — stay visible as manual-confirm rather than silently green. Honesty about gray is more credible than fake-green confidence.
What we don’t do
We are not the FAA. We are not a CFI. The audit output is informational only and does not replace the endorsements, instruction, or judgment of a certificated flight instructor or the discretion of an FAA Designated Pilot Examiner. Every applicant remains responsible for verifying their own aeronautical experience under 14 CFR Part 61.
Where we are
Built in San Carlos, California, on the south end of the Bay tower approach into KSQL. The team flies out of KSQL and KPAO; we eat our own dog food on every checkride we sit for.
Stay in touch
We’re shipping in the open. The fastest way to reach us is contact. The fastest way to try the audit is to start one.