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AviationNavigation systems and radar services
You navigate with the airplane's electronic navigation, find your position, intercept and track a course, and use ATC radar services with the right radio procedures. It is Task B of Area VI, Navigation, in the FAA Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards, the checkride every private pilot flies.
Free to startThe steps
- Use an airborne electronic navigation system.
- Determine the airplane's position with the navigation system.
- Intercept and track a given course, radial or bearing.
- Recognize and describe the indication of station or waypoint passage.
- Recognize signal loss or interference and act appropriately, if applicable.
- Use proper communication procedures when using radar services.
- Hold the selected altitude within 200 feet and heading within 15 degrees.
Safety rules that stop the station
- Any action, or lack of action, that makes the examiner step in to keep the flight safe is unsatisfactory.
- Consistently exceeding the tolerances of the task, or not correcting promptly when you exceed them, is unsatisfactory.
To pass
- The position found, the course intercepted and tracked, station passage recognized, altitude within 200 feet and heading within 15 degrees.
- Know ground-based navigation, satellite navigation with its equipment and rules, radar assistance to VFR aircraft, the transponder and ADS-B, and the risks of managing automated navigation and autoflight, distractions, the limits of the system, losing the signal and using an electronic flight bag.
- 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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