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Airmen Certification Standards (ACS)

ACS

  • Unlike the PTS, each ACS has three components for each topic:
    • Knowledge
    • Risk Management
    • Skills
  • Examiners usually ask a single item from the risk management, then all the skills
  • ACS have standards areas for the written tests and the practical tests

FAA ACS vs PTS

ACS Companion Guide

The new ACS companion guide has pertinent information common to all ACS documents, including

  • the practical test checklist
  • archived knowledge test codes
  • the list of official references

ACS Companion Guide