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Ground Instructor (Advanced)
- Provider
- PSI
- Exam questions
- Scored questions: 100.
- Time limit
- 2.5 hours, including any validation questions
- Passing score
- 70
Examination outline
Recreational pilot aeronautical knowledge — 14 CFR 61.97
- Applicable recreational pilot regulations
- NTSB accident reporting requirements
- Applicable AIM and FAA advisory circulars
- VFR charts, pilotage, and magnetic compass
- Critical weather, windshear, reports, and forecasts
- Safe aircraft operation, collision avoidance, and wake turbulence
- Density altitude effects on takeoff and climb
- Weight and balance
- Aerodynamics, powerplants, and aircraft systems
- Stall and spin awareness, entry, and recovery — airplane single-engine applicability
- Aeronautical decision making and judgment
- Preflight information, fuel, and alternative planning
Private pilot aeronautical knowledge — 14 CFR 61.105
- Applicable private pilot regulations
- NTSB accident reporting requirements
- Applicable AIM and FAA advisory circulars
- VFR charts, pilotage, dead reckoning, and navigation systems
- Radio communication procedures
- Critical weather, windshear, reports, and forecasts
- Safe aircraft operation, collision avoidance, and wake turbulence
- Density altitude effects on takeoff and climb
- Weight and balance
- Aerodynamics, powerplants, and aircraft systems
- Stall and spin awareness, entry, and recovery — airplane and glider applicability
- Aeronautical decision making and judgment
- Preflight information, fuel, and alternative planning
Commercial pilot aeronautical knowledge — 14 CFR 61.125
- Applicable commercial pilot regulations
- NTSB accident reporting requirements
- Basic aerodynamics and principles of flight
- Meteorology, critical weather, windshear, reports, and forecasts
- Safe and efficient aircraft operation
- Weight and balance
- Performance charts
- Exceeding aircraft performance limitations
- Charts, compass, pilotage, and dead reckoning
- Air navigation facilities
- Aeronautical decision making and judgment
- Aircraft system principles and functions
- Maneuvers, procedures, and emergency operations
- Night and high-altitude operations
- National Airspace System operating procedures
- Lighter-than-air flight and ground training procedures
Airline transport pilot aeronautical knowledge — 14 CFR 61.155
- Applicable airline transport pilot regulations
- Meteorology, fronts, clouds, icing, and upper-air data
- Weather and NOTAM collection, dissemination, interpretation, and use
- Weather chart, map, forecast, and report interpretation
- National Weather Service functions
- Windshear and microburst awareness, identification, and avoidance
- Air navigation under instrument meteorological conditions
- ATC procedures and pilot responsibilities
- Aircraft loading, weight and balance, and performance computations
- Aerodynamics in normal and abnormal flight regimes
- Human factors
- Aeronautical decision making and judgment
- Crew resource management, communication, and coordination
- ATP certification training program content — multiengine applicability and 14 CFR 61.156
Sport pilot aeronautical knowledge — 14 CFR 61.309
- Applicable sport pilot regulations
- NTSB accident reporting requirements
- Applicable AIM and FAA advisory circulars
- VFR charts, pilotage, dead reckoning, and navigation systems as appropriate
- Critical weather, windshear, reports, and forecasts
- Safe aircraft operation, collision avoidance, and wake turbulence
- Density altitude effects on takeoff and climb
- Weight and balance
- Aerodynamics, powerplants, and aircraft systems
- Stall and spin awareness, entry, and recovery as applicable
- Aeronautical decision making and risk management
- Preflight information, fuel, and alternative planning
Examination sources
- 14 CFR Part 61, current consolidated eCFR text
14 CFR 61.213(a)(4), including adoption of the five AGI knowledge-area lists in (ii)
- 14 CFR Part 61, current consolidated eCFR text
14 CFR 61.97, complete section
- 14 CFR Part 61, current consolidated eCFR text
14 CFR 61.105, complete section
- 14 CFR Part 61, current consolidated eCFR text
14 CFR 61.125, complete section
- 14 CFR Part 61, current consolidated eCFR text
14 CFR 61.155, complete section
- 14 CFR Part 61, current consolidated eCFR text
14 CFR 61.156, complete incorporated training-program content and limitations
- 14 CFR Part 61, current consolidated eCFR text
14 CFR 61.309, complete section
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 10, AGI row under NUMBER OF QUESTIONS, AGE, ALLOTTED TIME, PASSING SCORE
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 2, Validation Questions, entire paragraph and three bullets
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
Page 3, What is an AKTR?
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 10, AGI row and Authorization for Flight and Ground Instructor tests
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
Page 2, Scheduling the test
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 1, Federal Tracking Number (FTN)
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 10, Acceptable forms of retest authorization for ALL tests listed above
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 10, Authorization for Flight and Ground Instructor tests listed above (except FOI, IHF, and SIA through SIY)
- 14 CFR Part 61, current consolidated eCFR text
14 CFR 61.49(a), retesting after failure