Attention:
- Research a mishap case study:
- Discuss how the initial conditions developed into an incident/accident/mishap
- Relate similar personal experiences of the same type of incident/accident/mishap
- Consider incorporating a case study as a guided scenario
Motivator:
Overview:
Topic:
Time:
Introduction:
0:05
Airworthiness Requirements:
0:15
Review (quiz):
0:05
Case Studies:
0:05
Total Ground Time:
0:30
Required Materials:
- Student Jacket, Paper & Pen or Marker & Whiteboard, parked aircraft or airworthiness & registration certificate, aircraft logbook, minimum equipment list (if available), kinds of equipment list (if available), A&P with aircraft logbook, minimum/kinds of equipment list (or example if not applicable)
Instructor Actions:
- Introduce the lesson:
- Review the lesson plan, including the attention-getter and motivator.
- Review the airman certification standards.
- Part 1, review the knowledge:
- Define and how to determine airworthiness
- Review roles and responsibilities of the owner and operator assuming they are not the same individual or entity
- Discuss required documents
- Discuss registration certificate
- Discuss airworthiness certificate, including special airworthiness certificates/special flight permitss and supplemental type certificates
- Discuss required inspections
- Discuss airworthiness directives
- Discuss service bulletins and special airworthiness information bulletins
- Discuss preventive maintenance
- Discuss required equipment for VFR flight
- Discuss minimum equipment lists and kinds of equipment lists
- Discuss inoperative equipment
- Discuss case studies
- Part 2, conduct the guided scenario
- Conclude the lesson:
- Present the remotivation, conclude, and provide guidance for follow-on lessons.
- Review student actions required ahead of the next lesson.
- Update instructor endorsement records and student's jacket, as required.
Student Actions:
- Complete the assigned readings (see content above).
- Ask pertinent questions
- Perform self-assessment, including fitness for flight and personal minimums, as appropriate
- Make a go/no-go decision, as appropriate
Airworthiness Guided Scenario(s):
- While conducting a preflight, the pilot realizes there is a flat tire
- Who's responsibility is it to repair? Who can repair it?
- While conducting a preflight, the pilot realizes there is no oil
- Who's responsibility is it to repair? Who can repair it?
- While conducting a preflight, the pilot realizes the EGT guage is inoperative
- Who's responsibility is it to repair? Who can repair it?
- If it is not repaired, what steps must be taken before flight?
- While conducting a preflight, the pilot realizes the vertical speed indicator is inoperative
- Who's responsibility is it to repair? Who can repair it?
- If it is not repaired, what steps must be taken before flight?
- While conducting a preflight, the pilot realizes the airworthiness certificate is missing, but they saw it the other day and have a picture from a previous lesson
- Who's responsibility is it to replace?
- Can the pilot legally fly?
- In conjunction with a preflight:
- Locate and review the documents required: airworthiness and registration certificate, radio certificate (if applicable), operators manual, and weight and balance for accuracy and expiration
- Discuss the types of airworthiness certificates
- Review an aircraft maintenance logbook with an A&P and discuss:
- What the required inspections are and how they can be found/are logged in the aircraft logbook
- What Airworthiness Directives exist, how to find them, and how they've been complied with and logged
- What Special Airworthiness Information Bulletins exist, how to find them, and how they've been complied with and logged
- Locate and review the documents required: airworthiness and registration certificate, radio certificate (if applicable), operators manual, and weight and balance for accuracy and expiration
- Still with an A&P, while conducting a preflight discuss provide examples of what maintenance requirements may be discovered and who must perform them
- Discuss inoperative equipment found during preflight:
- Do the items appear on a minimum equipment list? (if applicable)
- If not applicable, use an example
- Do the items appear on a kinds of equipment list? (if applicable)
- If not applicable, use an example
- What are the items required for VFR operations?
- In any case, how must these items be placarded when found?
- Do the items appear on a minimum equipment list? (if applicable)
- Discuss if a discrepancy was noted on the ground, but could not be fixed, how a special airworthiness certificate could be obtained?
- Provide a scenario where the pilot has determined the aircraft is airworthy, but various items start to fail
- At what point must the aircraft be legally terminated? (VFR required equipment/unairworthy)
- What are other considerations to an aircraft that has multiple pieces of equipment fail together or on the same flight?
- Related scenarios:
Commercial Pilot (Airplane) Airworthiness Requirements Airman Certification Standards:
- Objective: To determine whether the applicant exhibits satisfactory knowledge, risk management, and skills associated with airworthiness requirements, including airplane certificates
- References: 14 CFR parts 39, 43, 91; FAA-H-8083-2 (Risk Management Handbook), FAA-H-8083-3 (Airplane Flying Handbook), FAA-H-8083-25 (Pilot Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge)
Commercial Pilot (Airplane) Airworthiness Requirements Knowledge:
The applicant demonstrates an understanding of:-
CA.I.B.K1:
General airworthiness requirements and compliance for airplanes, including:-
CA.I.B.K1a:
Location and expiration dates of required aircraft certificates. -
CA.I.B.K1b:
Required inspections and airplane logbook documentation. -
CA.I.B.K1c:
Airworthiness Directives and Special Airworthiness Information Bulletins. -
CA.I.B.K1d:
Purpose and procedure for obtaining a special flight permit.
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CA.I.B.K2:
Pilot-performed preventive maintenance. -
CA.I.B.K3:
Equipment requirements for day and night VFR flight, including:-
CA.I.B.K3a:
Flying with inoperative equipment. -
CA.I.B.K3b:
Using an approved Minimum Equipment List (MEL). -
CA.I.B.K3c:
Kinds of Operation Equipment List (KOEL). -
CA.I.B.K3d:
Required discrepancy records or placards.
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CA.I.B.K4:
Special airworthiness certificate aircraft operating limitations, if applicable.
Commercial Pilot (Airplane) Airworthiness Requirements Risk Management:
The applicant is able to identify, assess, and mitigate risk associated with:-
CA.I.B.R1:
Inoperative equipment discovered prior to flight.
Commercial Pilot (Airplane) Airworthiness Requirements Skills:
The applicant exhibits the skills to:-
CA.I.B.S1:
Locate and describe airplane airworthiness and registration information. -
CA.I.B.S2:
Determine the airplane is airworthy in the scenario given by the evaluator. -
CA.I.B.S3:
Apply appropriate procedures for operating with inoperative equipment in the scenario given by the evaluator.
Re-Motivation:
- Still looking for something? Continue searching:
Closure:
- Advise students that this lesson will be used as a starting point for the next lesson
- Assign study materials for the next lesson
Conclusion:
- Hard copies of the ACS and Oral Exam Guides are available on Amazon.
- Digital copies of the ACS are available on the FAA's website.
- The FAA provides test-taking guidance and test guides on its website.
- To learn more about earning the practical test, visit the checkride page.