TESTING REQUIREMENTS

These documents include:

1. Pilot certificate, front and back NOTE: Please be sure you have signed the back of your certificate. Your certificate is not valid until it has been signed.
2. Medical certificate
3. Log of ground instruction for  aeronautical knowledge or a completion certificate for a home study course or an instructor’s endorsement
4. Log of flight and ground instruction for required flight proficiency
5. Endorsements required to take the test (refer to Advisory Circular 61-65)

If the requested documents are not received within 24 hours of scheduling your test date, your practical test will be cancelled. 

• Complete your application using IACRA
• Your instructor must sign your application prior to scheduling your test
• Print a copy of your application from IACRA and bring it to your test. If IACRA is unavailable, the test can still begin and a paper application will be submitted to the FSDO. Please contact me if special circumstances require you to submit a paper application. There will be an additional $100 charge for handling a paper application.

• Ensure your name is listed as the owner of your logbook
• Ensure that all pages in your logbook have been totaled
• If the last logbook page is not yet complete, please enter the totals in pencil
• Electronic logbook users must provide a printout of the logbook entries (including instructor signatures/certificate/expiry) which document the aeronautical experience and training for the certificate or rating for which you are applying: A summary report will not be sufficient.
• Refer to 14 CFR 61.51 “Pilot logbooks” for the requirements for logging flight and ground instruction.
• Ensure your logbook has separate columns and totals for SOLO and PIC.

• Refer to 14 CFR 61 for the aeronautical knowledge and experience requirements for the certificate or rating for which you are applying.
• Refer to Advisory Circular 61-65 for details on the logbook endorsements required for your test.
• If you are using an electronic logbook, please print all the required endorsements with instructor’s signature.
• Student pilots must have a 14 CFR 61.87(n) solo endorsement current within 90 days.
• Student pilots flying more than 50nm to their test must have a 14 CFR 61.93(c)(3) Solo Cross-Country endorsement for the day of the test.

• Bring the original aircraft maintenance logbooks or records.
• Ensure the aircraft registration is current.
• Without a legible signature or e-signature on the Airworthiness Certificate, the aircraft is not airworthy and cannot be used.
• FAA Order 8130.2J encourages aircraft owners/operators to laminate the airworthiness certificate.
• The aircraft must meet the requirements defined in 14 CFR 61.45.
• Inoperative equipment in the plane must have been deactivated, placarded, and the maintenance logged in accordance with 14 CFR 41.45 and 91.213. NOTE: Without a maintenance entry describing the handling of inoperative equipment, the practical test cannot start.
• All required inspections must be current.
• All Airworthiness Directives must be complied with at the time of the test.  While an AD compliance list is not required by regulations, they save considerable time. Do not schedule a practical test for an aircraft without an AD compliance list without examiner approval. 
• The aircraft must be in a condition for safe flight.