# PL.I.A — Pilot Qualifications — Private Pilot Powered Lift ACS

> PL.I.A from FAA-S-ACS-13, 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 Powered-Lift Category Airman Certification Standards
- Identifier: FAA-S-ACS-13
- Published source date: November 2023
- Aircraft category: Powered Lift
- Certificate or rating: Private Pilot
- Area of Operation: Area of Operation I. Preflight Preparation
- Task: Task A. Pilot Qualifications
- Task code prefix: PL.I.A
- Official references: 14 CFR parts 61, 68, 91; AC 68-1; FAA-H-8083-2, 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 normal and emergency radio communications, air traffic control (ATC) light signals, and runway lighting systems.

## Knowledge elements

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

## Risk management elements

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

## Skills elements

- **PL.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.