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(3) Progress Check Procedures
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CNATRAINST 1542.156C
1 Aug 11
(a) The Progress Check Pilot shall consider the
student’s proficiency, judgment, situational awareness, and
overall ability to maneuver the aircraft safely and confidently.
The student must also demonstrate the potential to successfully
complete MPTS and advanced training. Progress checks shall be
full mission profiles emphasizing the student’s weak areas and a
representative cross section of area and pattern maneuvers. All
critical items do not need to be accomplished. Document failed
progress checks on the respective pink ATF for the failed event
generating the progress check. A student’s first flight
progress check (in the advanced phase) is an IPC (SXX88) event.
Any subsequent progress check is an FPC (SXX89).
(b) IPC. The following defines when to conduct an
IPC, IPC outcomes, and IPC instructors.
1. Criteria for an IPC are:
a. Failed check ride (SXX90).
b. Two consecutive or three unsatisfactory
events in a block, not including ET (SXX87) or warmup (SXX86)
events.
event.
c. A single Ready-Room Unsatisfactory (RRU)
d. Failing two exams.
2. Operations Officer or above may direct an
IPC when the student’s:
a. Potential to complete MPTS is in doubt.
(See paragraph 8e, failure to meet specific goals of SMS.)
syllabus flow.
b. Officer-like qualities are inadequate.
3. Outcomes are:
a. Passing returns the student to normal