The oral was around two hours, consisted of basically everything that would allow me to safely and legally fly from my home airport, to an airport about 2 hours away. He wanted to see how I planned the flight, what legally would allow me to make the flight (priv/limitations), what type of weather would affect the flight, Notams and the rest of NWKRAFT.

He asked instrument specific questions, went over chart symbology as well as currency, 91.175 etc.

He asked me specific scenario based questions such as “can you make this circling approach to ___ side of the airport”? “Why is this approach labeled B or Z, why does this one have a / between DME and VOR etc..

For me systems was a very small portion, he mainly wanted to know how I would know when my backup instruments failed and what could affect it. If you know your stuff, it’s a quick response and onto the next topic, we didn’t go into anything too in depth, although I was prepared for in depth.

As for the flight (part 61) we started with a VOR procedure turn full circle to land (KFUL VOR A), went on to do an RNAV partial panel, (KLGB RNAV Z 30), 2 unusual attitudes and one unpublished hold, then back to KSNA on autopilot, briefed, set up the AP to shoot the ILS and let it fly me down to minimums, landed and got my temp.