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AviationPreflight assessment
Before the flight, you inspect the airplane with its checklist, confirm it is safe and conforms to its type design, check yourself and keep assessing the weather and the environment. It is Task A of Area II, Preflight Procedures, in the FAA Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards, the checkride every private pilot flies.
Free to startThe steps
- Inspect the airplane with an appropriate checklist.
- Verify that the airplane is in condition for safe flight and conforms to its type design.
- Perform a self-assessment.
- Keep assessing the environment for safe flight.
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 inspected item by item with the checklist, found safe and conforming, and you and the environment assessed.
- Know the pilot self-assessment, how to decide the airplane is appropriate and airworthy, which items to inspect, why and how to detect defects, the regulations behind the inspection, the weather, terrain, route and obstructions, and the risks of the pilot, the aircraft, the environment, external pressures and aviation security.
- 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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