# Pilot Qualifications ## Certification requirements, recent flight experience, and recordkeeping ## Privileges and limitations ## Medical certificates: class, expiration, privileges, temporary disqualifications ## Documents required to exercise commercial pilot privileges ## Part 68 BasicMed privileges and limitations ## Proficiency versus currency ## Flying unfamiliar aircraft or operating with unfamiliar flight display systems and avionics # Airworthiness Requirements ## General airworthiness requirements and compliance for airplanes, including: 1. Location and expiration dates of required aircraft certificates 2. Required inspections and airplane logbook documentation 3. Airworthiness Directives and Special Airworthiness Information Bulletins 4. Purpose and procedure for obtaining a special flight permit ## Pilot-performed preventive maintenance ## Equipment requirements for day and night VFR flight, including: 1. Flying with inoperative equipment 2. Using an approved Minimum Equipment List (MEL) 3. Kinds of Operation Equipment List (KOEL) 4. Required discrepancy records or placards ## Special airworthiness certificate aircraft operating limitations, if applicable ## Inoperative equipment discovered prior to flight ## Locate and describe airplane airworthiness and registration information ## Determine the airplane is airworthy in the scenario given by the evaluator ## Apply appropriate procedures for operating with inoperative equipment in the scenario given by the evaluator # Weather Information ## Sources of weather data (e.g., National Weather Service, Flight Service) for flight planning purposes ## Acceptable weather products and resources required for preflight planning, current and forecast weather for departure, en route, and arrival phases of flight such as: 1. Airport Observations (METAR and SPECI) and Pilot Observations (PIREP) 2. Surface Analysis Chart, Ceiling and Visibility Chart (CVA) 3. Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAF) 4. Graphical Forecasts for Aviation (GFA) 5. Wind and Temperature Aloft Forecast (FB) 6. Convective Outlook (AC) 7. Inflight Aviation Weather Advisories including Airmen's Meteorological Information (AIRMET), Significant Meteorological Information (SIGMET), and Convective SIGMET ## Meteorology applicable to the departure, en route, alternate, and destination under visual flight rules (VFR) in Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC), including expected climate and hazardous conditions such as: 1. Atmospheric composition and stability 2. Wind (e.g., windshear, mountain wave, factors affecting wind, etc.) 3. Temperature and heat exchange 4. Moisture/precipitation 5. Weather system formation, including air masses and fronts 6. Clouds 7. Turbulence 8. Thunderstorms and microbursts 9. Icing and freezing level information 10. Fog/mist 11. Frost 12. Obstructions to visibility (e.g., smoke, haze, volcanic ash, etc.) ## Flight deck instrument displays of digital weather and aeronautical information ## Making the go/no-go and continue/divert decisions, including: 1. Circumstances that would make diversion prudent 2. Personal weather minimums 3. Hazardous weather conditions, including known or forecast icing or turbulence aloft ## Use and limitations of: 1. Installed onboard weather equipment 2. Aviation weather reports and forecasts 3. Inflight weather resources # Cross Country Flight Planning # National Airspace System # Performance and Limitations # Operation of Systems # Human Factors