PRIVATE PILOT ORAL EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Pilot Requirements for Certification, recent flight experience, and record keeping: - ANS - Be
at least 17 years old and Speak English
- 3 Landings within 90 days (night- Full stops), if carrying passengers
- Biannual Flight Review every 24 months
- Log Training Records in logbook and all checkouts.
Pilot Privileges and Limitations: - ANS - Can Fly airplane with passengers
- But cannot carry passengers for compensation or hire.
- Not pay less than pro-rata share of expenses for flight with passengers
Medical Certificates (Class, Expiration, Privileges, Temporary Disqualifications) - ANS -1,2,3
Class Medicals
-Before 40 good for 60 months, after 40 for 24 months.
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,What documents are required to be able to exercise private pilot privileges? - ANS -
Appropriate Pilot License
-Current Medical
-Photo ID
BasicMed Privileges and Limitations - ANS -It's an alternative to third-class medical
certification
-Take Physical Examination
-Complete the AOPA Online Medical Education Course
What is needed on board the plane to be considered Airworthy? - ANS -(A)ir Worthiness
Certificate
-(R)egistration
-(R)adio Operation License (International)
-(O)perating Limitations & Placards (POH)
-(W)eight and Balance Certificate (Located in POH)
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, What Logbook Requirements are needed to make plane Airworthy? - ANS -(P)itot Static
Certification (every 24 months)
-(E)LT Certification every if used 1 cumultive hour or 50% of the battery's life.
-(E)altimeter Encoder Certification (every 24 months)
-(T)ransponder (every 24 moths)
-(A)nnual Inspection & Airworthiness Directives (AD)
-VOR Checks every 30 days
All these inspections records are stored in Maintenance logbooks.
What is an Airworthiness Directive? - ANS An Airworthiness Directive (also known as an AD)
is a notification to owners and operators of certified aircraft that a known safety deficiency with
a particular model of aircraft, engine, avionics or other system exists and must be corrected.
What if a system is inoperative, and needs to be transported to the repair facility? Can the
airplane be flown? - ANS If need to fly aircraft with inoperative equipment to repair station,
then a special flight permit from a local FAA office must be acquired.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Pilot Requirements for Certification, recent flight experience, and record keeping: - ANS - Be
at least 17 years old and Speak English
- 3 Landings within 90 days (night- Full stops), if carrying passengers
- Biannual Flight Review every 24 months
- Log Training Records in logbook and all checkouts.
Pilot Privileges and Limitations: - ANS - Can Fly airplane with passengers
- But cannot carry passengers for compensation or hire.
- Not pay less than pro-rata share of expenses for flight with passengers
Medical Certificates (Class, Expiration, Privileges, Temporary Disqualifications) - ANS -1,2,3
Class Medicals
-Before 40 good for 60 months, after 40 for 24 months.
1 @COPYRIGHT THESTAR 2025/2026
,What documents are required to be able to exercise private pilot privileges? - ANS -
Appropriate Pilot License
-Current Medical
-Photo ID
BasicMed Privileges and Limitations - ANS -It's an alternative to third-class medical
certification
-Take Physical Examination
-Complete the AOPA Online Medical Education Course
What is needed on board the plane to be considered Airworthy? - ANS -(A)ir Worthiness
Certificate
-(R)egistration
-(R)adio Operation License (International)
-(O)perating Limitations & Placards (POH)
-(W)eight and Balance Certificate (Located in POH)
2 @COPYRIGHT THESTAR 2025/2026
, What Logbook Requirements are needed to make plane Airworthy? - ANS -(P)itot Static
Certification (every 24 months)
-(E)LT Certification every if used 1 cumultive hour or 50% of the battery's life.
-(E)altimeter Encoder Certification (every 24 months)
-(T)ransponder (every 24 moths)
-(A)nnual Inspection & Airworthiness Directives (AD)
-VOR Checks every 30 days
All these inspections records are stored in Maintenance logbooks.
What is an Airworthiness Directive? - ANS An Airworthiness Directive (also known as an AD)
is a notification to owners and operators of certified aircraft that a known safety deficiency with
a particular model of aircraft, engine, avionics or other system exists and must be corrected.
What if a system is inoperative, and needs to be transported to the repair facility? Can the
airplane be flown? - ANS If need to fly aircraft with inoperative equipment to repair station,
then a special flight permit from a local FAA office must be acquired.
3 @COPYRIGHT THESTAR 2025/2026
