Effective Date: June 24, 2026
Last Updated: June 24, 2026
The check-ride.ai community forum (the “Forum”) is a place for pilots, students, and
instructors to share checkride experiences, study tips, and aviation knowledge. These
Guidelines are part of, and incorporated into, the check-ride.ai Terms of Service.
By posting, commenting, voting, or otherwise participating in the Forum, you agree to these
Guidelines. If you do not agree, do not use the Forum.
1. The Spirit of the Forum
Aviation has a strong safety culture built on professionalism and mutual respect. We expect the
same here. In short: be respectful, be helpful, and be kind to one another. Disagree with
ideas, not people. Assume good faith. Help newer pilots the way you’d want to be helped.
2. Fair Use
The Forum is provided for personal, non-commercial use by members of the aviation community.
You agree to:
- Use the Forum at a reasonable, human pace and volume.
- Use only the official interface to access the Forum.
You agree not to:
- Use bots, scripts, scrapers, crawlers, or other automated means to read, post, vote, or
collect data from the Forum, except for well-behaved search-engine indexing that respects
our
robots.txt.
- Post spam, advertising, solicitations, referral/affiliate schemes, or repetitive content.
- Artificially manipulate votes, rankings, or visibility (including vote brigading, sock-puppet
or duplicate accounts, or coordinated inauthentic activity).
- Resell, redistribute, or commercially exploit Forum content or access.
- Place an unreasonable load on our infrastructure.
3. Prohibited Content & Conduct
You may not post, link to, or transmit content that:
- Is hateful, harassing, threatening, abusive, defamatory, or discriminatory, including content
that attacks or demeans others based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex,
gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.
- Is intentionally inflammatory, incendiary, or designed to provoke, troll, or disrupt
(“flaming,” “flame wars,” or deliberate antagonism).
- Harasses, bullies, stalks, intimidates, or threatens any person.
- Reveals another person’s private or identifying information (“doxxing”).
- Impersonates any person or organization, including check-ride.ai staff, the FAA, a DPE, or
another member.
- Is obscene, sexually explicit, or otherwise inappropriate for a professional community.
- Is illegal, promotes illegal activity (including operations contrary to the Federal Aviation
Regulations), or facilitates harm.
- Infringes anyone’s intellectual property, confidentiality, or other rights.
- Contains malware, phishing links, or other harmful code.
To protect the service and our community, the following are strictly prohibited:
- Denial-of-service (DoS/DDoS) attacks, traffic floods, or any attempt to disrupt, degrade,
or overload the Forum or its infrastructure.
- Automated scraping, harvesting, or bulk downloading of Forum content or member data.
- Probing, scanning, penetration testing, or attempting to discover or exploit vulnerabilities
without our prior written authorization.
- Circumventing, disabling, or interfering with rate limits, authentication, moderation, bans,
or other security or access controls.
- Uploading or transmitting malware or any code intended to disrupt or gain unauthorized access.
We employ technical measures to detect and mitigate abuse — including rate limiting, IP and
network-level filtering, bot and anomaly detection, and traffic-shaping — and we may add,
change, or remove such measures at any time. We reserve the right to block, throttle, or deny
access to any user, IP address, or network, and to pursue all available legal remedies
(including civil and criminal action) against those who attack or attempt to compromise the
service.
5. User-Generated Content — Disclaimer & Your Responsibility
Forum posts and comments are user-generated content. They reflect the views of the
individuals who post them, not check-ride.ai.
- We do not pre-screen, verify, endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of any Forum content.
- Forum content — including “gouge,” study tips, and checkride recollections — is informal,
may be inaccurate or out of date, and is not official guidance.
- Nothing on the Forum is a substitute for the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), the
Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM), the applicable Airman Certification Standards (ACS),
official FAA guidance, or the instruction of a certificated flight instructor or examiner.
- You rely on Forum content at your own risk. Always verify against authoritative sources
and consult your CFI/DPE. You are solely responsible for your own decisions and conduct as a
pilot or applicant.
You are solely responsible for content you post and represent that you have the right to post
it. To the maximum extent permitted by law, check-ride.ai disclaims all liability arising from
Forum content or from your use of or reliance on it.
6. Moderation Rights
We reserve the right to moderate all discussions on the Forum. At our sole discretion, with
or without notice, and for any reason or no reason, we may:
- Monitor, review, edit, hide, label, lock, or remove any post, comment, username, or other
content.
- Restrict, suspend, or remove any account’s ability to post, comment, vote, or read.
- Take any action we deem appropriate to protect the community, the service, or any person.
We are under no obligation to host, display, or retain any content, and removal of content does
not waive any of our rights.
7. Enforcement, Bans & No Refunds
Violations of these Guidelines may result in actions up to and including, at our sole
discretion:
- A warning;
- Removal or editing of content;
- Temporary suspension of Forum or account access; and/or
- Permanent termination (“ban”) of your check-ride.ai account.
If your account is suspended or permanently banned for violating these Guidelines or the Terms
of Service, you are not entitled to any refund of credits, subscriptions, or any other
purchases made on check-ride.ai, and any remaining credits or balances are forfeited. This
is an exception to, and overrides, any general refund policy in our Terms of Service.
8. Reporting Violations
If you see content or behavior that violates these Guidelines, please report it to
support@critique-labs.ai. Do not engage with or retaliate
against bad actors — let the moderators handle it.
9. Intellectual Property & Content License
You retain ownership of the content you post. By posting, you grant check-ride.ai a worldwide,
non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, display, reproduce, and
distribute that content in connection with operating and promoting the service (including
allowing it to be indexed by search engines).
Respect others’ intellectual property. If you believe content on the Forum infringes your
copyright, contact support@critique-labs.ai with a
description of the work, the location of the allegedly infringing content, and your contact
information, and we will respond appropriately.
10. Privacy & Your Identity
Your forum profile lets you control how you appear — from fully anonymous (“Pilot”) to your
chosen username with your location and ratings. Manage this anytime under Settings → Forum
Profile. See the Privacy Policy for how we handle your data.
Do not post other people’s private or personal information, and do not post anything you are not
comfortable being publicly visible and indexed.
11. Changes to These Guidelines
We may update these Guidelines at any time. Material changes will be reflected by the “Last
Updated” date above. Your continued use of the Forum after changes take effect constitutes
acceptance of the updated Guidelines.
Questions about these Guidelines? Reach us at
support@critique-labs.ai. 
