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Commercial Pilot Balloon - Hot Air
- Format
- Computer-administered multiple choice knowledge examination
- Exam questions
- Scored questions: 100.
- Passing score
- 70
Examination outline
- Applicable Federal Aviation Regulations: commercial pilot privileges, limitations, and flight operations
- National Transportation Safety Board accident reporting requirements
- Basic aerodynamics and principles of flight
- Meteorology, critical weather, windshear, and aeronautical weather reports and forecasts
- Safe and efficient operation of aircraft
- Weight and balance computations
- Use of performance charts
- Significance and effects of exceeding aircraft performance limitations
- Aeronautical charts and magnetic compass for pilotage and dead reckoning
- Use of air navigation facilities
- Aeronautical decision making and judgment
- Principles and functions of aircraft systems
- Aircraft-appropriate maneuvers, procedures, and emergency operations
- Night and high-altitude operations
- Procedures for operating within the National Airspace System
- Procedures for flight and ground training for lighter-than-air ratings
Examination sources
- 14 CFR 61.125 Aeronautical knowledge
§ 61.125(a) and (b)(1)-(16), complete section; official scope index blocks 2944-2965
- 14 CFR 61.123 Eligibility requirements: General
§ 61.123(c)-(d), adoption of §61.125 for the category/class knowledge test
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 7, heading, testing supplement pointer and CBH row
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
Page 2, Does everyone take the same airman knowledge test and How should I prepare for the knowledge test?
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 7, CBH row under TEST CODE / TEST NAME / NUMBER OF QUESTIONS / AGE / ALLOTTED TIME / PASSING GRADE
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 2, Validation Questions, scoring, listed-number exclusion and allotted-time bullets
- FAA Pilot Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need an interpreter for the computer based knowledge exam?
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
Page 3, What is an AKTR?
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 2, Validation Questions, introductory validation-purpose bullet
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 7, initial authorization heading with CCH/CCP/MCN exceptions
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 7, initial authorization forms, certificate/accomplishment and instructor statement paragraphs
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 7, acceptable retest authorization heading and passing/expired/failed AKTR list
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 7, retest after failure NOTE
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 7, authorized instructor endorsement forms below the failure NOTE
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
Page 1, Federal Tracking Number (FTN)
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
Page 2, Scheduling the test and Documents needed for the test
- 14 CFR Part 61
§ 61.33 Tests: General procedure
- 14 CFR Part 61
§ 61.35(a)(3), identification and age
- 14 CFR Part 61
§ 61.39(a)(1)(i), knowledge-test recency before practical test
- FAA FAQ: Where are the knowledge exams given?
Answer to Where are the knowledge exams given?