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Private Pilot Quick-Review Study Guide

The final-weeks companion for your checkride: every ASEL task of the ACS, in the order the oral actually flows. $24 · PDF · ACS-organized (FAA-S-ACS-6C, ASEL)

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Draft v0.3 (August 2026) is being reviewed page by page by the CFI who signs off on every claim; nothing sells before that. Join the list for the launch note and launch pricing.

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Verified against current FAA sources

Every regulatory and technical claim is checked against the live eCFR, current handbooks (PHAK, AFH, Aviation Weather Handbook), and FAA-S-ACS-6C — with the source cited. No recycled folklore.

CHECKRIDE TRAP callouts

The places applicants actually stumble — the three different “nights,” the 91.213(d) flow, calendar-month math, carb-heat-makes-it-worse — flagged in red where they live.

FLY IT links into live sims

Read the ground-reference chapter, then click straight into the wind sim and fly it. The guide and the sims are one product.

Look inside

Three real pages from the v0.2 draft (the v0.3 draft under review keeps the same design and adds visible FAR/AIM references on every block) — this is what the whole guide looks like.

Guide page: Pilot Qualifications & Currency — oral-style questions and answers on required documents and private pilot privileges, with two red CHECKRIDE TRAP callout boxes.
Oral-style Q&A with CHECKRIDE TRAP callouts
Guide page: Airspace & Sectional Charts — a table of all six airspace classes with entry requirements and VFR minimums, a 3-152 memory aid, and a CHECKRIDE TRAP on Class B clearance wording.
The tables that are the chapter
Guide page: Maneuvers Quick-Reference — tables of maneuver setup keys and ACS standards for steep turns, ground reference, slow flight and stalls, with a FLY IT box linking to the runuplab.com wind sim.
ACS tolerances plus FLY IT links into the sims

What's inside

  1. Pilot Qualifications & Currency
  2. Aircraft Documents & Airworthiness
  3. Aircraft Systems
  4. Performance & Limitations
  5. Weather
  6. Airspace & Sectional Charts
  7. Navigation & Cross-Country Planning
  8. Operating Rules & Legal Responsibilities
  9. Human Factors & ADM
  10. Preflight, Airport & Postflight Operations
  11. Maneuvers Quick-Reference (with ACS tolerances)
  12. Emergency Operations
  13. Night Operations
  14. Appendices: V-speeds, squawk codes, personal minimums

Wondering about the free stuff? The sims stay free, and the PPL Checkride Ready checklist is a free download.