Sporty's puts an AI examiner on checkride practice duty

Three new uploads pair oral-exam preparation with handheld radios and an inside look at aircraft insurance.

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Prepare for Your Checkride Oral Exam with Sporty's ChatDPE

Knowing an answer and explaining it aloud are different skills. Sporty's Pilot Shop builds its newest ChatDPE demonstration around that gap, showing an AI tool that moves from sample answers to a simulated oral exam without hints.

The short product promotion was the most watched of the shop's three new uploads, though each drew fewer than a thousand views. Study Mode supplies questions, answers and regulatory references; Practice Mode adds a virtual flight-instructor coach. The challenging checkride setting removes that assistance and requires a complete, correct answer on the first attempt.

The week's longer viewing takes a more practical cockpit turn. Doug Ranly's handheld-radio presentation compares transmission range, batteries, headset connections and navigation features across Sporty's, Yaesu and Icom models. These are the retailer's own product presentations, with its equipment among the options discussed.

On Pilot's Discretion, insurance executive and former business jet pilot Doug Tibbs explains the distinction between brokers and underwriters. His emphasis is on the application: helping an insurer understand an aircraft owner's experience and operation, rather than treating the paperwork as an afterthought.

The channel added about a thousand subscribers over the week, reaching 266,000, while daily views are running below half their usual level. Its November product checklist currently draws the most daily views among its active uploads, followed by the Thrustmaster Sky Yoke review and Ryan Koch's autopilot lesson. That last presentation carries the week's most useful counterpoint to all the equipment: knowing what the automation is doing, and when to disconnect it.

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The videos drawing views on Sporty's Pilot Shop right now

Aviation Radios—Choosing the Right Handheld871 views · 2026-11-05 Inside the aviation insurance market, with Doug Tibbs - Pilot's Discr…831 views · 2026-11-03 New Product Checklist for Pilots — November 20268,474 views Thrustmaster Sky Yoke for Flight Simulator Review | Sporty's Product …16,705 views Beyond the Buttons: Mastering Your Modern Autopilot8,787 views

The numbers

Here is the week in views, subscribers and active uploads for Sporty's Pilot Shop.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Sporty's Pilot Shop

187,783

Air New Zealand

41,191

subscribers

266,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

138,269,475

views per day

12,867

typical day: 30,224

first-day views of each video posted this week

Prepare for Your Checkride Oral Exam wi…

702

Aviation Radios—Choosing the Right Hand…

618

Inside the aviation insurance market, w…

522

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Sporty's Pilot Shop

266,000

Air New Zealand

105,000

As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.