# PA.I.A — Pilot Qualifications — Private Pilot Airplane ACS

> PA.I.A from FAA-S-ACS-6C, including the official objective, references, notes, and 8 exact knowledge, risk-management, and skill descriptions.

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## Official Task context

- FAA document: Private Pilot for Airplane Category Airman Certification Standards
- Identifier: FAA-S-ACS-6C
- Published source date: November 2023
- Aircraft category: Airplane
- Certificate or rating: Private Pilot
- Area of Operation: Area of Operation I. Preflight Preparation
- Task: Task A. Pilot Qualifications
- Task code prefix: PA.I.A
- Official references: 14 CFR parts 61, 68, 91; AC 68-1; FAA-H-8083-2, FAA-H-8083-3, FAA-H-8083-25
- FAA source library: https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs

## Official Task objective

To determine the applicant exhibits satisfactory knowledge, risk management, and skills associated with airman and medical certificates including privileges, limitations, currency, and operating as pilot-in-command as a private pilot.

## Knowledge elements

- **PA.I.A.K1** — Certification requirements, recent flight experience, and recordkeeping.
- **PA.I.A.K2** — Privileges and limitations.
- **PA.I.A.K3** — Medical certificates: class, expiration, privileges, temporary disqualifications.
- **PA.I.A.K4** — Documents required to exercise private pilot privileges.
- **PA.I.A.K5** — Part 68 BasicMed privileges and limitations.

## Risk management elements

- **PA.I.A.R1** — Proficiency versus currency.
- **PA.I.A.R2** — Flying unfamiliar aircraft or operating with unfamiliar flight display systems and avionics.

## Skills elements

- **PA.I.A.S1** — Apply requirements to act as pilot-in-command (PIC) under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) in a scenario given by the evaluator.

## Difficulty methodology

Difficulty calibration is ongoing for this Task. Observed difficulty is a privacy-thresholded check-ride.ai mock-oral practice proxy, not an FAA practical-test pass or fail rate. Underlying sample sizes and the private reporting threshold are not published.

## Use in practice

A mock examiner can ask a pilot to explain the published elements, apply them to the configured aircraft and airport context, identify risks, and defend a decision. Practice prompts are not represented as actual FAA examiner scripts or predictions of the questions a candidate will receive.