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Sport Pilot Airplane
- Provider
- FAA knowledge testing through PSI Services
- Format
- Computer-administered multiple-choice knowledge test; separately reported AKTR result. Validation questions may be included without affecting the score.
- Exam questions
- Scored questions: 40.
- Time limit
- 2.0 hours, including time for any validation questions
- Passing score
- 70
Examination outline
- Applicable regulations: sport pilot privileges, limits, and flight operations
- National Transportation Safety Board accident reporting requirements
- Applicable Aeronautical Information Manual portions and FAA advisory circulars
- VFR navigation: aeronautical charts, pilotage, dead reckoning, and navigation systems, as appropriate
- Critical weather, windshear avoidance, and weather reports and forecasts
- Safe and efficient aircraft operation, collision avoidance, and wake turbulence
- Density altitude effects on takeoff and climb performance
- Weight and balance computations
- Aerodynamics, powerplants, and aircraft systems
- Stall awareness, spin entry, spins, and spin recovery, as applicable
- Aeronautical decision making and risk management
Preflight actions
- Obtaining runway lengths, takeoff and landing distance data, weather reports and forecasts, and fuel requirements
- Planning alternatives for an incomplete planned flight or delays
Examination sources
- 14 CFR 61.309
§ 61.309, complete section including (a)–(l) and (l)(1)–(2)
- 14 CFR 61.307
§ 61.307(a), controlling knowledge-test scope adoption
- AC 61-65K
Printed page 2 / PDF page 5, paragraph 9 KNOWLEDGE TESTS
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 14, SPA named row under SPORT PILOT
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 14, SPORT PILOT table, SPA row with NUMBER OF QUESTIONS, AGE, ALLOTTED TIME and PASSING SCORE headers
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 2, Validation Questions, opening statement
- FAA Pilot Study Tips
What The Test Items Are Like
- Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
PDF page 3, What is an AKTR?
- Airman Testing Community Advisory
PDF page 4, PSI’s Test Taker Portal Transition
- Airman Testing Community Advisory
PDF page 5, Graphics Conversion Project Update, testing-supplement availability
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 2, Validation Questions, unscored-status bullet
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 2, Validation Questions, number-of-questions exclusion bullet
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 2, Validation Questions, allotted-time bullet
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 14, SPA row and initial authorization paragraph
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 14, acceptable initial authorization, both alternatives
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 14, acceptable initial authorization, instructor statement or endorsement
- 14 CFR 61.307
§ 61.307(a), Knowledge test
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 1, Federal Tracking Number (FTN)
- 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 Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF page 14, acceptable retest authorization, after-failure note