Charles Ray Walters
Pilot examiner in Winter Haven, FL; Smithfield, NC: an experienced pilot the FAA has designated to give checkrides, the practical tests for pilot certificates and ratings, on its behalf.
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes.
Office 1 as the FAA lists it
- Address
- 2073 U.S. Highway 92 West
Winter Haven, FL 33881 - Telephone
- (919) 369-2683
- [email protected]
- Nearest airport
- Winter Haven Regional GIF
Office 2 as the FAA lists it
- Address
- 3149 Swift Creek Rd
Smithfield, NC 27577 - Telephone
- (919) 369-2683
- [email protected]
- Nearest airport
- Johnston Regional JNX
Booking a checkride
- Your instructor usually arranges it once you're ready and signed off.
- Examiners set their own fees; ask when you book, and ask how far ahead they're booking.
- Bring what the FAA's testing standards list for your certificate, and your logbook.
Other pilot examiners nearby within fifty nautical miles
- Benjamin Cook Shipps · Winter Haven, FL (0 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, seaplanes - Charles Sheridan Brown · Winter Haven, FL (0 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes, multi-engine seaplanes - Janeen Adrion Kochan · Winter Haven, FL (0 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes - Steven James Korotky · Winter Haven, FL (0 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes - Thomas Dowell · Winter Haven, FL (0 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes - Jon Kenneth Brown · Auburndale, FL (3 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes, multi-engine seaplanes - Anthony Manuel Gallegos · Bartow, FL (7 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, gliders - Donald Ray Laughlin · Haines City, FL (9 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, type ratings, private pilot (proficiency), instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes - Darrin Murphy · Lakeland, FL (15 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes - Matthew Eichel · Lakeland, FL (15 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes - Richard Musser · Lakeland, FL (15 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes - Steven Markhoff · Lakeland, FL (15 nm)
May test for: private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes
Every FAA examiner near Winter Haven Regional: 30 pilot examiners, 31 medical examiners.
Flight schools and clubs nearby within about 15 miles, with their aircraft and safety record
- Aspiring Aviators Aero Club INC · flying club, 4 aircraft, Winter Haven
- Flight School 101 LLC · flight school, 2 aircraft, Winter Haven
- Bartow Municipal Airport Development Authority · flight school, 5 aircraft, Bartow, 8 miles away
- Fun Flight Training LLC · flight school, 1 aircraft, Bartow, 8 miles away
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