ACS

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One quick way to improve the quality of your flight training is to acquire a copy of the airman certification standards (ACS) for the certificate you seek and measure yourself against the metrics provided. When you are beginning your aviation journey, you don’t know what you don’t know—the ACS is a means of determining what […]

Ten years ago, the aviation industry was fed up, and the FAA needed help to fix the problems that had developed within the process of testing applicants for pilot certificates and ratings. So, what was the issue? Essentially, instructors and prospective pilots had two separate tests (the written exam and the practical test) to prepare […]

The FAA has released the new Airmen Certification Standards (ACS) for the airline transport pilot (ATP) rating, effective on June 28, 2019. The effort brings together the previously used practical test standards with additional requirements for the certificate, updates to the knowledge exam, and notes formerly distributed across a variety of source materials. As with […]