ACS - Airman Certification Standards

hey guys this main tenant the FAA outlines flight training in the airman certification standards or ACS for short today we've got Todd Schulman who's the 2015 AOPA flight instructor of the year to let us know how this relates to your training hello we're here to talk to you today about the airman certification standards and the airman certification standards are a tool list and assessment tool that is used by instructors and examiner's to be able to find out if you have what it takes to be a pilot so the first thing we want to look at within the urban certification standards is what is called the area of operations now the airmen certification standard has several areas of operations within it in each one of these areas of operations or specific areas that the FAA deems that you should know this information ok so if we look at a very specific area of operation you can turn to your airman certification standards and look at area of operation one and you can see that that area of operation would be pre-flight preparation if we look at the task a under pilot qualifications we can see that it has several items underneath it within the area of operation we can see that the first one is the task itself so the task itself is the applicant should know about pilot qualifications so in this particular task what the examiner will be looking at is do you know what you have to do or have with you in order to exercise the privileges of your pilot certificate so we start off at each task with the references so where do we actually go to study this material in this particular part here the references gives you exactly where you would go within the regulations or the FAA handbooks in order to gather the material that you need to study this particular portion and then we would have the objective now the objective for each task is a know consider and do portion for the pilot so what you should know what you should consider and what you should do for the task the next one you would see would be the knowledge area so we want to see that the applicant demonstrates the understanding of and then the specific items listed within that area so if you are studying for an exam and you're trying to study for pilot qualifications then you would actually go to the very first one where it says currency regulatory compliance privileges and limitations and you should be able to talk about that fluently okay the ACS says you should show mastery of the knowledge so that's pretty deep understanding so make sure that you know those particular items the next portion would be in risk management and the way that you should really look at this risk management is what would be some of the problems that would arise out of me not knowing this information or me not being able to do this particular task then we have our skills section at the very end of it and the skills section is what the exam and are ultimately wants to see out of you so as an examiner I would ask you a question such as what do you have to have before you leave the house with you and your personal possession in order for you to act as a private pilot or as a commercial pilot and you would just tell me those items that you have to have with you that would ensure to me that you know what it takes in order to act as piloting command so in essence when you go for your practical exam if you have the knowledge and you have the risk management skills and you have the skills in order to perform the task it should be a relatively easy experience for you so now that we've actually looked at what an area of operation would look like under the oil portion of your exam let's talk about what it would look like under the flight portion of the exam so if we look in our ACS under area of operation task six for the Private Pilot and we look at task C which is diversion we can see that we have certain references here it gives the eighty eighty three which is your handbooks the Airman's information manual and navigation charts so in order for you to properly do a diversion you have to be familiar with those references now if we look at our objective of course if you remember what I said earlier on our objective it's what we should know what we should consider and what we should do on this particular task so it says here to determined that the applicant exhibits satisfactory knowledge risk management and skills associated with a diversion which is pretty much the objective for each area of operation within the ACS now we also say that we our knowledge portion here says that the applicant demonstrates the understanding of selecting a divert destination so in this particular one you actually would be the one who actually does select your diversion point some examiner's select your diversion point but you must actually show the examiner that you should select your diversion point and then being able to deviate from ATC instructions and/or the flight plan so just by the knowledge of this particular portion here is something that the examiner could actually ask you in the oral portion of the exam too so it's important that you know the knowledge portion of every area of operation we also see here that the risk management associated with this particular task is actually a little bit larger than other risk management areas because there's a lot of things involved with this we're actually going right off the cuff and we're doing something that we didn't plan to do so now we're in the midst of planning in the air so it's a diversion it's really the epitome of pilotage and dead reckoning and then we can see that our skills that we have to possess in order to do this particular task is for us to select the appropriate aversion and the airport and the route as well as make the correct estimate of your heading ground speed arrival time fuel consumption and the divert airport and then maintain your altitude and heading within LT within plus or minus 280 within plus or minus 15 degrees SP for the private pilot not necessarily for the commercial pilot so now we have a good idea of how each area of operation and tasks can be used during your practical exam with the examiner with the FAA one of the things that we want to understand is that there is a lot more information included in with the airman certification standards but it's in the back of the publication in the appendices of the ACS so if you have your ACS with you you can turn the back and you can see that we have Appendix 1 eligibility you may actually see that in the ACS it has a specific FAA are number to refer to and that's the FAA our number that you should refer to in order to find out if you do meet the eligibility requirements for the examination appendix 2 is going to be your knowledge test procedures and tips this was once in a separate document but now we have it in this document which is great because again the ACS is something that we should use from the very first portion of your training appendix 3 is going to be the report that actually comes out after you take your tests the testing center will immediately print out a test report for you now one of the things you're going to do which is very very important is they'll have this little machine so a handheld machine and they'll actually crimp or place a seal over the piece of paper now when they do that that's very important that you don't lose that particular report why because when you go to meet your prerequisites for the test one of the things that you have to have is a testing report with an embossed seal one of the other great things about the airman knowledge test report is the test report will give you a list of the questions knowledge test codes that you missed and with these test codes you can sit down with your instructor and go over the information that you missed appendix five we've already briefly touched on a little bit it talks about the the roles of each person who should come into play while using the ACS and we have the applicant the instructor and the evaluator the evaluator can be a designated pilot examiner or an aviation safety inspector now appendix five deals specifically with the practical test roles responsibilities and outcomes we've already briefly touched on this a little bit about the roles we have the applicant we have the instructor and also have the evaluator so if you remember the applicants role is to be familiar with the ACS the instructors role is that he properly trained you to meet or exceed the standards of the ACS and the evaluators role is to ensure that you actually do meet the standards of the ACS one of the other things that we have to look at is how else can the applicant be prepared for the checkride well it's quite simple in the ACS they give a list a checklist for the applicant and so when you get ready to go to a exam as you can see here we'll post a picture of it this is the practical test checklist for the exam when you get ready to go into the exam a day before a couple days before just print out this checklist and go right down beside it and check each plot make sure you had these particular items if you don't have all these items that checked here then it would not be a good thing to actually show up for the checkride these are pretty good grounds for the examiner to not even start the check ride to begin with so you want to make sure that you have everything on this list appendix 6 is a pretty big one the FAA nowadays is really really big on risk management and almost this entire appendix 6 is dealing with some form of risk management but during the entire check ride the examiner or evaluator is going to be looking to make sure that you have these particular skills for instance such as stall and spin awareness he's looking for a proper rudder control and how you're recovering if he sees you recover from a stall that's breaking to the left and you've put full right L on well that may not be the proper recovery procedure that the examiner is looking for use a checklist if you are preparing to take off and you don't refer to a paper checklist that also may be a problem if the examiner could stop the check right in there use some distractions you said distractions or something that it's not meant to be a gain by the examiner but he wants to see that your your that in the in the moment that you don't let other things interfere with what you're trying to do one of the other things is positive change of flight controls please do not remove your hands or feet from the flight controls until you are sure that the examiner evaluator has controlled that aircraft the last part is the ADM crew resource management risk management and single pilot resource management this can really all be accomplished if you use something called a pave checklist that's a P a VE so the pilot if you know the I'm safe checklist you could kind of get all the pilot pre-qual right anything the pave checklist underneath the pay portion of that and then of course the a would be aircraft and you would have all the acronyms for your aircraft the imes the a v8 the grab card flaps a tomato flames or whichever ones that you've learned to insure the air worthiness of the aircraft and then your V would be your environment so make sure that you understand the weather that NOTAM is the airspace along your route and then the even the external pressures and these would be those hazardous attitudes that we talked about during your training if you have get there itis you want to say I'm not so fast take your time nothing's that important appendix seven is going to very specifically deal with the aircraft equipment and operational requirements in limitations of the aircraft that you're going to bring to the checkride it's very important that you understand that if you have a device install that aircraft you are going to have to use that particular device on that aircraft you will have to show proficiency so if you have an autopilot even though you never use the autopilot you will have to use the autopilot on a check ride if it's built in the examiner is supposed to see that you know how to use that particular device appendix 8 deals with the use of flight simulators now this is a kind of an opening subject and it's it's not only deals with a certification part of it dealing with how you train but also deals with what you can actually use what kind of simulators you can actually use for the check ride this is a very open into subject so I would definitely recommend that if you're going to use a simulator for your check ride or if you use this simulator for any portion of your check ride please consult the current FA RS and advisor servers that deal with this subject matter now I know that you're saying right now where did everybody get this information from well it's pretty simple appendix 9 is going to tell you where they got all the information discussing deals with the references for the ACS so if you're kind of unsure about where to go to find out specific pieces of information or if you're simply just wanting to pick up an ACS and start studying for your next rating you can just go to Phenix 9 and it shows you all the books and handbooks and everything associated with knowing what you need to know for the knowledge and skill portion of your exam appendix 10 just deals with abbreviations and acronyms so if you saw something in the ACS that you really don't know or if you don't know what ACS means you can just go to the appendix 10 and it'll tell you what it means I hope you enjoyed your seminar today and for go SIL I'm Tod Schulman

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Keywords: private pilot, instrument pilot, practical test, faa test, acs, airman certification, student pilot

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Length: 14min 54sec (894 seconds)

Published: Thu May 19 2016