331 New ACS Changes and How They’ll Affect Your Next Checkride – Jason Blair + GA News

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Max and Jason Blair discuss recent changes in the FAA's aviation testing standards, notably the transition from PTS to ACS. Key updates include the conversion of the CFI test to ACS, introducing scenario-driven evaluations. New maneuvers, such as demonstrating flight characteristics under various conditions, have been added for CFIs. Instructors can now use pre-developed lesson plans, easing the preparation burden.

Instrument rating changes allow using approaches with decision altitudes like LNAV/VNAV and mandate partial panel approaches to reflect real emergency scenarios. GPS databases must remain current. For commercial pilots, precision in power-off 180-degree landings is emphasized, and understanding ballistic parachute systems is required.

These updates aim to modernize testing, aligning it with current industry practices and technology without drastically altering training content. The use of electronic flight bags (EFB) for planning and in-flight operations is now permitted, enhancing practicality. Jason assures that these changes will improve the evaluation process while maintaining consistency with previous standards, providing a seamless transition for candidates.

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0:00.0	Will you be taking a check ride sometime in the future? If so, you'll want to know about all of the changes the FAA has just made to many ACS documents, and they all become effective in just a day or two.
0:13.1	Hello again, and welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk in general aviation. My name is Max Trascott. I've been flying for 50 years. I'm the author of several books and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year.
0:23.5	And my mission is to help you become the safest possible pilot.
0:27.6	Last week in episode 329, we talked about the FAA reauthorization Act of 2024 and how it impacts GA pilots.
0:35.0	And in episode 3.30, we had a Friday mailbag special in which we read
0:39.2	a number of your listener stories and emails. So if you didn't hear those episodes, you may
0:43.4	want to check them out at AviationNewstalk.com slash 329 and slash 330. And if you're new to the show,
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1:03.0	And since this is a listener-supported show, I'll be telling you later about all the different ways you can support our work here. And when you support the show, I'll read your name on the show.
1:12.0	Coming up in the news for the week of May 27, 2024, FAA proposes a find against the company
1:17.9	which owned a caravan that crashed in Burley, Idaho.
1:22.0	Skydivers, exiting a Cessna 206, caused it to crash.
1:26.6	And we'll tell you about a study on the impact of using a
1:29.4	home simulator on pilot training. All this and more, and the news starts now.
1:38.2	From FAA.gov, FAA proposes a $239,000 civil penalty against Jammer of Salmon, Idaho for allegedly violating
1:48.4	aircraft maintenance and flight planning restrictions.
1:51.2	And I'll tell you more about that in a moment, but it's related to this story from flymag.com.
1:56.0	NTSB says pilot was flying too low before hitting smokestack in Idaho.
2:00.3	The NTSB released its final report
2:02.2	into the fatal April 2022 accident that occurred when the pilot on approach to Burley
2:06.9	Municipal Airport crashed into a smokestack. Now we talked about that accident in detail in episode
2:12.4	233 and the accident pilot's father has been in touch with me a number of times since then.
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