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Private Pilot Weight-Shift-Control
- Provider
- FAA knowledge-test scheduling through the FAA-linked PSI portal.
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 60–65; Scored questions: 60; Unscored questions: 0–5; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
- Time limit
- 2.5 hours, including time for any validation questions.
- Passing score
- 70 percent.
Examination outline
- Applicable Federal Aviation Regulations: private pilot privileges, limitations, and flight operations
- National Transportation Safety Board accident reporting requirements
- Use of applicable Aeronautical Information Manual portions and FAA advisory circulars
- Aeronautical charts for VFR navigation: pilotage, dead reckoning, and navigation systems
- Radio communication procedures
- Critical weather recognition, windshear avoidance, and use of weather reports and forecasts
- Safe and efficient aircraft operation, collision avoidance, and wake turbulence avoidance
- Density altitude effects on takeoff and climb performance
- Weight and balance computations
- Principles of aerodynamics, powerplants, and aircraft systems
- Aeronautical decision making and judgment
Preflight action
- Obtaining runway lengths, takeoff and landing distances, weather reports and forecasts, and fuel requirements
- Planning alternatives for incomplete flights or delays
Examination sources
- FAA Recreational Pilot and Private Pilot Knowledge Tests
How should I prepare for the knowledge test?
- 14 CFR 61.105 Aeronautical knowledge
Complete section 61.105(a), (b)(1)-(13), including (b)(13)(i)-(ii); current eCFR section XML
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
PDF page 2, Does everyone take the same airman knowledge test for a particular airman certificate?
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 3, General Guidelines & Recommendations, supersession statement
- 14 CFR 61.103 Eligibility requirements: General
Section 61.103(e), required knowledge-test scope
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
PDF page 2, How should I prepare for the knowledge test?
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 13, PWS row under NUMBER OF QUESTIONS / AGE / ALLOTTED TIME / PASSING SCORE
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 2, Validation Questions, second bullet
- FAA Order 8080.6H, Conduct of Airman Knowledge Tests
PDF page 58, Appendix A page A-12, Figure A-9, introductory text above column headings
- FAA Order 8080.6H official document information
Document Information, Number, Title, Date issued and Status
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
PDF page 3, What is an AKTR?
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 2, Validation Questions, third bullet
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 2, Validation Questions, fourth bullet
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 13, initial authorization for listed tests except PCH, PCP, PEP, and PFB, instructor-authorization bullet
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 1, Federal Tracking Number (FTN) paragraph
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 2, Acceptable Forms of Age Verification
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
PDF page 2, Scheduling the test, How do I register for an airman knowledge test?
- FAA Airman Testing ACTS
More Information, Schedule an Airman Knowledge Test link
- FAA Recreational Pilot and Private Pilot Knowledge Tests
How long is a satisfactorily completed knowledge test valid?
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 13, initial authorization heading for all listed tests except PCH, PCP, PEP, and PFB
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 13, initial authorization, graduation certificate bullet
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 13, retest authorization, failed-AKTR NOTE
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 1, Acceptable Forms of Identification, ALL Applicants table cell, required identifying information
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 1, identification notes, address-verification alternative and unacceptable addresses; related alternatives on PDF page 4
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 1, identification notes, applicant under 18
- FAA Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
PDF page 2, How do I find an airman knowledge testing center near me?
- 14 CFR 61.35 Knowledge test: Prerequisites and passing grades
Section 61.35(a)(1), knowledge-test training endorsement prerequisite
- 14 CFR 61.35 Knowledge test: Prerequisites and passing grades
Section 61.35(a)(3)(iii)(A), age at certificate issuance before report expiration