Free printables

Eight preflight mnemonics in flying order — IM SAFE, PAVE, ARROW, AV1ATES, NWKRAFT, A TOMATO FLAMES, FLAPS, SAFETY — each carried back to the regulation it comes from, with AIM guidance kept on its own line so it never reads as a rule.

Work down it with your logbook open: medical duration by class and age, the flight review and the four things that satisfy it, day and night passenger currency, and the § 61.109 experience buckets — plus five things about all of it that get stated wrongly constantly.

Every numeric standard in FAA-S-ACS-6C by Area of Operation, each with its element code, in the ACS's own notation — including the three cells cheat sheets routinely get wrong, and the four numbers commonly printed that the ACS does not contain at all.

What it takes to enter Class A through G, what equipment each demands, the speed limits, the complete § 91.155 weather-minimums table cell for cell, and Special VFR — a clearance you request, not a lower-minimums default — including the Class G night rows that are identical to Class C, D and E, and the two 10,000-foot equipment rules that are not the same rule.

Something on the panel is dead and there is no MEL. The rule worked in order — which path you are on, whether the aircraft qualifies, the four separate tests that must all come back “no”, then placard and record — every step quoted verbatim, plus an honest account of the one test the regulation does not settle.

The run-up before your checkride: everything to have done, current, and in hand before you meet the examiner — your paperwork, the airplane's, the night before, the morning of. Tick it off here or print it.

A CFI's scoring sheet for a practice oral, laid out by ACS Area of Operation with each task's knowledge and risk element counts. Score each task, note the deficiency, and make a readiness call backed by evidence.

A fill-in worksheet organized on the FAA PAVE checklist — pilot currency, aircraft, a day/night table for ceiling, visibility, wind, crosswind and density altitude, and external pressures. Fill it in on screen, or print it blank.

The kneeboard numbers: § 91.159 cruising altitudes, § 91.151 fuel, § 91.113 right-of-way in the rule's own order, the full § 91.125 light-gun table, and the § 91.215/§ 91.225 airspace lists kept apart.

Every endorsement from pre-solo to practical test in AC 61-65K's own words — appendix number, the FAR each satisfies, and what expires when, cited to the rule.

Logging night time, night passenger currency, and position lights run on three different clocks — § 1.1, § 61.57(b), § 91.209 — each quoted verbatim, with night fuel and equipment alongside.

The student-side record of the CFI endorsement sheet: which endorsements you hold, who gave them, and which ones lapse on their own — the solo endorsement's clock and the per-flight solo cross-country — straight from the same cited data.

A fill-in W&B grid for any trainer — stations, arms, moments, ramp through landing weight, and a CG line — with the limits left where they belong: in your airplane's own records. Check your numbers against the live W&B tool.

A fill-in navlog for the classic paper flow — checkpoints, the full wind-triangle column run, times and fuel — with § 91.103's preflight-action requirement quoted at the top and the E6B one tab away.

Who you're talking to, facility by facility — what each one owns, what it does for VFR traffic, and when calling is the regulation versus good practice, with the required/advised line drawn in the sources' own words.

Radio calls in two honest columns: the ones the AIM and AC 90-66C actually script, quoted word for word — and the conventional calls they don't, composed on the AIM's own format and labeled as convention, never dressed up as regulation.

What FSS still does and how to reach it — briefing types in the AIM's own words, filing and closing VFR flight plans, and the full PIREP encoding table, with the phone-and-website facts dated instead of dressed up as rules.

NTSB Part 830, quoted: what counts as an accident or a listed incident, the immediate-notification list item for item, what “substantial damage” excludes, wreckage preservation, and the report that follows — the sheet to have before you need it.

Alcohol, oxygen, and flying while unwell — § 91.17, § 91.211 and § 61.53 quoted in full, with the cabin-pressure-altitude wording most summaries drop, and the AIM's symptom lists kept clearly apart from the rules.

ARROW and AV1ATE with the regulations attached: what has to be aboard, what has to have been inspected and when, which rows are for-hire or IFR only — every interval quoted from the rule that sets it, not from a mnemonic.

Every code on the observation and the forecast — wind, visibility, weather, sky, TAF change groups, flight categories — decoded from the current Aviation Weather Handbook's own tables, with an honest list of the codes it doesn't define.

The pre-solo knowledge test as § 61.87(b) actually frames it: the three required areas quoted, the student-pilot limitations item for item, a starter set of general-regulation questions with cited answers you can strike or keep — and blank blocks for the parts only your airport and your airplane can fill.

The 108 Pilot/Controller Glossary terms FAA-S-ACS-6C uses, chosen by a CFI — every definition in the FAA's own words, as a printable sheet and a flashcard deck.

The 110 Pilot/Controller Glossary terms FAA-S-ACS-8C uses, chosen by a CFI — approach, clearance and separation language in the FAA's own words, printable or as flashcards.

The 102 Pilot/Controller Glossary terms FAA-S-ACS-7B uses, chosen by a CFI — the vocabulary the commercial standard assumes you already speak, verbatim.

The 100 Pilot/Controller Glossary terms FAA-S-ACS-25 uses, chosen by a CFI — the terms you will be asked to define, in the words the FAA defines them with.

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

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

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, the handbook's own words.