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Implementing The ACS

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Key Takeaways:

  • The author identified a discrepancy in FAA private pilot knowledge test reports, where missed questions were linked to codes for "flying skills" and "risk management" elements, not solely "knowledge" as expected for a written exam.
  • This finding contradicts the FAA's policy that written exams should not include "skills" questions and is suspected to be due to the remapping of older test questions to the new Airman Certification Standards (ACS) codes without a full update of the questions themselves.
  • Upon being informed, the FAA acknowledged they were unaware of this mismatch in question coding and committed to investigating the issue.
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Following up on Robert Wright’s excellent article in September’s issue (“Are The ACS Working?”), yes, I agree that they are working except for one thing, something that I found out about by accident. But first, some background.

During the summer, the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) offers National Flight Academies for CAP Cadets where they go from zero flight hours to hopefully solo in 10 days. This year, the NFAs were cancelled and the cadets were offered virtual ground schools that culminated in taking the private pilot airplane knowledge written exam.

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