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AviationAirworthiness requirements
On the ground, you show the examiner that the airplane is airworthy and legal to fly: where its certificates and registration are, its inspections and logbooks, its airworthiness directives, and what to do when equipment is inoperative. It is Task B of Area I, Preflight Preparation, in the FAA Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards, the checkride every private pilot flies.
Free to startThe steps
- Locate and describe the airplane's airworthiness and registration information.
- Determine that the airplane is airworthy in the scenario the examiner gives you.
- Apply the right procedures for operating with inoperative equipment in the examiner's scenario.
Safety rules that stop the station
- Failing to exercise risk management is unsatisfactory.
- If you do not use sound aeronautical decision-making, including single-pilot resource management, the examiner marks the task as failed.
To pass
- The airplane's documents located and explained, its airworthiness decided correctly and the inoperative equipment handled by the rules.
- Know where the aircraft certificates are and when they expire, the required inspections and logbook entries, airworthiness directives and special airworthiness information bulletins, the special flight permit, owner, operator and pilot-in-command duties, pilot preventive maintenance, the equipment for day and night VFR, inoperative equipment, the MEL and KOEL, discrepancy records and placards, and standard and special airworthiness certificates.
- Missing the standard on this task fails the task and its area of operation.
Official source
Federal · FAA Private Pilot ACS
Private Pilot for Airplane Category Airman Certification Standards (FAA-S-ACS-6C)
The FAA publishes the Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards free: every task of the checkride with its knowledge, risks and tolerances.
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