Flight Instructor Sport Gyroplane — Information & Free Practice
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Flight Instructor Sport Gyroplane
- Provider
- PSI
- Exam questions
- Scored questions: 70.
- Time limit
- 2.5 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
- Applicable Aeronautical Information Manual and FAA advisory circulars
- VFR 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
- 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
- Runway lengths, takeoff and landing distances, weather, and fuel requirements
- Alternatives for incomplete flights or delays
Examination sources
- 14 CFR 61.405
§61.405(a)(2)
- 14 CFR 61.309
§61.309, complete section including (a)–(l) and (l)(1)–(2)
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF p.10, SIY row; columns TEST CODE, TEST NAME, NUMBER OF QUESTIONS, AGE, ALLOTTED TIME, PASSING SCORE
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF p.2, Validation Questions, listed question count
- Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
PDF p.3, What is an AKTR?
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF p.2, Validation Questions, scoring rule
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF p.2, Validation Questions, time allowance
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF p.2, Validation Questions, possible inclusion
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF p.10, double-asterisk SPORT PILOT Flight Instructor authorization, IHF and SIA through SIY
- 14 CFR 61.405
§61.405(a), knowledge-test preparation and separate fundamentals requirement
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF p.10, Acceptable forms of retest authorization for ALL tests listed above
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF p.10, retest NOTE
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF p.1, Federal Tracking Number (FTN)
- FAA Airman Knowledge Testing Matrix
PDF pp.1–4, identification, age verification, address verification and applicant exceptions
- Airman Testing Frequently Asked Questions
PDF p.2, Scheduling the test
- AC 61-65K, Certification: Pilots and Flight and Ground Instructors
PDF p.49, printed A-16, endorsement A.52