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Private Pilot Checkride Prep Guide
Student pilots working toward the private pilot certificate, and anyone returning to finish one. $7.99 one-time · PDF guide · Keep access for life.
Prepare for your checkride
Bring your preparation together: the knowledge, decisions and flying topics to discuss with your examiner. Use this guide to work through the areas below and identify anything you still need to practice.
- Preflight preparation
- Preflight procedures
- Airport and seaplane base operations
- Takeoffs, landings and go-arounds
- Performance and ground reference maneuvers
- Navigation
- Slow flight and stalls
- Basic instrument maneuvers
- Emergency operations
- Night operations
- Postflight procedures
Sources
- 14 CFR Part 61
- 14 CFR Part 91
- Private Pilot ACS
- FAA handbooks
- AIM
Using this guide
- Aircraft-specific numbers, speeds, limitations and procedures come from your AFM/POH, never from a study guide.
- Regulations change. The controlling text is the current eCFR, and the guide names the section so you can check it.
- A study guide is preparation material. It is not an endorsement, an approval, or a substitute for instruction.