AviationTaxiing
You taxi from the ramp to the runway with the airport diagram, the clearances read back and the airplane under control, avoiding any runway incursion. It is Task D of Area II, Preflight Procedures, in the FAA Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards, for the airplane classes listed below.
Free to startScenarios
- Airplane single-engine land (ASEL).
- Airplane multiengine land (AMEL).
The steps
- Receive and read back clearances and instructions correctly, if applicable.
- Use the airport diagram or taxi chart during taxi, if one is published, and keep your situational awareness.
- Position the flight controls for the existing wind, if applicable.
- Complete the appropriate checklists.
- Check the brakes right after the airplane starts moving.
- Keep positive control of the airplane on the ground, controlling direction and speed without excessive braking.
- Comply with airport and taxiway markings, signals and ATC clearances and instructions.
- Position the airplane properly relative to the hold lines.
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.
- If you do not use sound aeronautical decision-making, including single-pilot resource management, the examiner marks the task as failed.
To pass
- Clearances read back, the diagram in use, the brakes checked, the airplane under control and stopped short of the hold lines.
- Know the Chart Supplement, airport diagrams and NOTAMs, taxi instructions and clearances, airport markings, signs and lights, wind indicators, aircraft lighting, the flight deck tasks before taxi, radio calls at towered and nontowered airports, entering or crossing runways, night and low-visibility taxi, and the risks of distractions, expectation bias, a changed taxi route and runway incursions.
- Missing the standard on this task fails the task and its area of operation.
Official source
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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