Free printables

31 print-ready sheets for the ground. Read them here, print them, or take the PDF — free, no signup. Each names its sources, and every quote names its edition.

Study plan & checkride

What you are tested on, where to read it, and what to have in hand on the day.

PPL Study Plan

For: Student

What the private pilot tests cover and where to read it: a reading plan flagged Core, Skim or Skip, the regulations, and every ACS task.

2 PDFs, 22 and 44 pagesRead or print →

ACS Maneuver Tolerances

For: Student · CFI

Every numeric standard in the private pilot ACS as one chart — altitude, airspeed, heading, bank — with element codes, plus the numbers cheat sheets print that the ACS lacks.

PDF, 2 pagesRead or print →

PPL Checkride Ready

For: Student

Everything to have done, current and in hand for the checkride, in the order you do it — weeks before, the night before, the morning of, and what to bring.

Fill in on screen · PDF, 1 pageRead or print →

Rules & regulations

The rules a VFR pilot is held to, each cited to the regulation that sets it.

Airspace: Entry, Equipment, Minimums

For: Student · Pilot

What each class of airspace takes to enter, the equipment it demands, the speed limits, the complete VFR weather-minimums table, and Special VFR.

PDF, 3 pagesRead or print →

VFR Quick Reference

For: Student · Pilot

The kneeboard numbers: cruising altitudes, VFR fuel, right-of-way, the light-gun signals, and the transponder and ADS-B rules kept apart.

PDF, 2 pagesRead or print →

Currency & Experience Audit

For: Student · Pilot

Check yourself with your logbook open: medical duration, flight review, day and night passenger currency, and the private pilot experience requirements for a single-engine airplane.

Fill in on screen · PDF, 3 pagesRead or print →

Night Ops: The Three Nights

For: Student · Pilot

Night means three different things — for logging, for carrying passengers, and for position lights. Each rule quoted, with night fuel and equipment alongside.

Print from the pageRead or print →

Documents & Inspections

For: Student · Pilot

What has to be aboard and what has to have been inspected, and when — ARROW and AV1ATE with the regulation behind each item attached.

PDF, 3 pagesRead or print →

Aeromedical Numbers

For: Student · Pilot

Alcohol and drugs, supplemental oxygen, and flying while unwell — the rules quoted in full, with the AIM's symptom lists kept apart from them.

PDF, 3 pagesRead or print →

Inoperative Equipment: The § 91.213(d) Flow

For: Student · Pilot

Something on the panel doesn't work and there is no MEL: the rule as a step-by-step flowchart, every step quoted, including where the regulation itself is unclear.

PDF, 4 pagesRead or print →

NTSB 830: Is It Reportable?

For: Student · Pilot

Accident, incident, or neither? The definitions, what needs immediate notification, preserving the wreckage, and the report that follows — plus scenarios to test yourself.

PDF, 5 pagesRead or print →

Weather

Reading the reports, and the weather behind them.

METAR & TAF Decoder

For: Student · Pilot

Wind, visibility, weather, sky and the TAF change groups, decoded from the Aviation Weather Handbook's own tables — plus flight categories and the codes it does not define.

PDF, 3 pagesRead or print →

Weather Theory: Fronts, Air Masses, Pressure

For: Student · Pilot

Air masses, pressure systems and fronts, one card each, with figures — and for every front, what to expect and what can hurt you.

PDF, 15 pagesRead or print →

ATC & Flight Service

Who you talk to, what to say, and what Flight Service still does.

The ATC System

For: Student · Pilot

Who you're talking to, facility by facility: what each one handles, what it does for VFR traffic, and when calling is required rather than advised.

PDF, 3 pagesRead or print →

ATC Phraseology

For: Student · Pilot

Radio calls, quoted word for word where the AIM and FAA guidance script them, and clearly labeled as convention where they don't.

PDF, 2 pagesRead or print →

Flight Service Today

For: Student · Pilot

What Flight Service still does and how to reach it: the briefing types, VFR flight plans from filing to closing, and how to encode a PIREP.

PDF, 3 pagesRead or print →

Preflight & planning

The checks and fill-in sheets for the planning you do before a flight.

Pilot Safety Check

For: Student · Pilot

The preflight mnemonics — IM SAFE, PAVE, ARROW and the rest — in flying order, each tied back to its source, with guidance never passed off as rule.

PDF, 2 pagesRead or print →

Personal Minimums Sheet

For: Student · Pilot

Set your own limits on the PAVE checklist — pilot, aircraft, day and night weather numbers, outside pressures. Fill it in here or print it blank.

Fill in on screen · PDF, 1 pageRead or print →

Weight & Balance Worksheet

For: Student · Pilot

A fill-in weight and balance grid for any trainer, ramp weight to landing weight, with the limits left where they belong: your airplane's own records.

Fill in on screen · PDF, 1 pageRead or print →

Cross-Country Navlog

For: Student · Pilot

A fill-in navlog for the classic paper flow — checkpoints, the wind-triangle columns, times and fuel — with the E6B one tab away.

Fill in on screen · PDF, 1 pageRead or print →

Endorsements & instructor sheets

Endorsement wording for CFIs, the student's matching tracker, and sheets for practice orals and the pre-solo test.

CFI Endorsements: The PPL Track

For: CFI

Every endorsement from pre-solo to the practical test in the advisory circular's own words, with the rule each one satisfies and what expires when.

Print from the pageRead or print →

Endorsement Tracker

For: Student

The student's side of the endorsement sheet: which endorsements you hold, who signed them, and which ones lapse on their own.

Fill in on screen · Print from the pageRead or print →

Mock-Oral Scorecard

For: CFI

A practice-oral scoring sheet laid out by ACS Area of Operation: score each task, note what to fix, and make a readiness call backed by evidence.

Fill in on screen · PDF, 1 pageRead or print →

Pre-Solo Test Template

For: CFI

The pre-solo knowledge test as the regulation frames it: starter questions with cited answers to keep or strike, plus blanks for your airport and your airplane.

Fill in on screen · PDF, 3 pagesRead or print →

Glossaries

Aviation terms in the FAA's own words, as printable sheets and flashcard decks.

Glossary: Private Pilot

For: Student

The 108 Pilot/Controller Glossary terms the private pilot ACS uses, picked by a CFI, in the FAA's own words — as a sheet and a flashcard deck.

PDF, 7 pagesRead or print →

Glossary: Instrument Rating

For: Pilot

The 110 Pilot/Controller Glossary terms the instrument ACS uses, picked by a CFI — approach, clearance and separation language, verbatim, as a sheet and a deck.

PDF, 7 pagesRead or print →

Glossary: Commercial Pilot

For: Pilot

The 102 Pilot/Controller Glossary terms the commercial ACS uses, picked by a CFI — the vocabulary the commercial standard assumes you already speak, verbatim.

PDF, 7 pagesRead or print →

Glossary: Flight Instructor

For: CFI

The 100 Pilot/Controller Glossary terms the flight instructor ACS uses, picked by a CFI — the ones you will be asked to define, in the FAA's own words.

PDF, 7 pagesRead or print →

Glossary: FAA Frequently-Used Terms

For: Student · Pilot

The 116 terms the FAA itself flags as frequently used — nobody curated this list, which is the point. Verbatim definitions, as a sheet and a deck.

PDF, 6 pagesRead or print →

Glossary: 14 CFR § 1.1 Definitions

For: Student · Pilot

All 195 terms the regulations define for themselves — night, pilot in command, category, class — verbatim from the eCFR, as a sheet and a deck.

PDF, 8 pagesRead or print →

Glossary: PHAK, Letter by Letter

For: Student

The Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge glossary — 864 entries, the vocabulary of the knowledge test — as one printable sheet and one deck per letter.

23 PDFs, 1–3 pages eachRead or print →

Each sheet names the source behind its claims, and wherever a source is quoted the sheet names the edition the words came from — for the regulations, the AIM pages and Pilot/Controller Glossary letters, the advisory circulars, and the Aviation Weather Handbook, down to the date the text was retrieved and frozen. Check anything here against the current primary source before you rely on it — that is what the citations are for.