Pilot Logbooks
This document must be kept for at least 3 years by a flight instructor for all solo flight privilege endorsements issued to an individual.
What is a flight instructor record/logbook?
This class of medical certificate is required for student, recreational, and private pilot operations.
What is a Third-Class Medical?
The minimum age required to be eligible for a private pilot certificate for a rating other than glider or balloon.
What is 17 years of age?
To maintain instrument recency of experience, a pilot must perform and log this many instrument approaches within the preceding six calendar months.
What are six instrument approaches?
The minimum required age for an ATP certificate obtained under the unrestricted aeronautical experience requirements.What is 23 years of age?
What is 23 years of age?
This is the minimum time period a flight instructor must retain records of endorsements given for solo flight privileges.
What is 3 years?
This class of medical certificate is required when exercising the pilot-in-command privileges of an airline transport pilot certificate.
What is a First-Class medical?
The aeronautical experience required for a private pilot certificate in an airplane (single-engine) must include at least this many hours of flight training from an authorized instructor.
What is 20 hours?
A pilot who fails to meet instrument recency requirements for more than six calendar months must complete this check to reestablish currency.
What is an Instrument Proficiency Check (IPC)?
The total hours of flight time required for an unrestricted ATP certificate with an airplane category and class rating.
What is 1,500 hours?
These three conditions of flight must be logged when exercising instrument privileges to meet the recent instrument experience requirements.
What are day or night, actual instrument, and simulated instrument conditions?
A pilot operating under BasicMed is limited to flying an aircraft with a maximum certificated takeoff weight of no more than this many pounds.
What is 6,000 pounds?
This is the minimum required recency period during which a pilot must have accomplished a flight review to act as pilot in command.
What is within the preceding 24 calendar months?
The total hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command required for an Instrument-Airplane rating.
What is 50 hours?
The minimum hours of cross-country flight time required for an unrestricted ATP certificate.
What is 500 hours?
These four items about the instructor must be included in a logbook entry for training time received.
What are the authorized instructor's signature, certificate number, certificate expiration date or recent experience end date, and a description/length of the training?
A pilot operating under BasicMed must have received a comprehensive medical exam from a state-licensed physician within the previous number of these months.
What is 48 months?
A private pilot may not carry passengers unless they have completed three takeoffs and three landings as the sole manipulator of the controls within this preceding time frame in the same category and class of aircraft.
What is the preceding 90 days?
The maximum total hours of instrument time that may be credited in a full flight simulator, flight training device, or aviation training device toward the instrument time requirements (when training is not completed under Part 142).
What is 20 hours?
The document required for an applicant seeking an airplane category multiengine class rating before applying for the ATP knowledge test.
What is a graduation certificate from an authorized training provider certifying completion of the airline transport pilot certification training program (ATP CTP)?
This is one type of logged experience that must be documented and recorded in a manner acceptable to the Administrator to meet the requirements for a certificate, rating, or flight review.
What is training time or aeronautical experience?
This is the maximum altitude at which a pilot may fly when operating under BasicMed.
What is 18,000 feet MSL?
These are the three main classifications used to organize aircraft for pilot certification purposes.
What are category, class, and type?
The minimum total distance in nautical miles required for the instrument cross-country flight necessary for an Instrument-Airplane rating.
What is 250 nautical miles?
The required minimum hours of pilot-in-command flight time in the class of airplane for the rating sought that must be included within the 1,500 hours of total time for an unrestricted ATP.
The required minimum hours of pilot-in-command flight time in the class of airplane for the rating sought that must be included within the 1,500 hours of total time for an unrestricted ATP.