hey everyone Jason Shaffer here welcome
into mock check Ride May and in this
video well being prepared for your check
ride is all about knowing what's changed
from the FAA I'm going to share with you
eight things the FAA has changed over
the past year
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what is happening m0a online Ground
School Jason Shaffer here welcome into a
video where I'm going to share with you
eight things the FAA has fairly recently
some of them changed so you can walk
into your check ride better prepared
speaking of walking into your check ride
better prepared and not just your check
ride by the way part of being a safe
Good Pilot who's always learning is
staying up to date on FAA changes so
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know part of check ride preparation it's
being aware of all the FAA updates and
all the FAA changes truly the only
constant in aviation is change so let's
start with number one here it's a
classic it's the aviation weather
handbook it's uh it's a large
comprehensive source and it's published
in current as of December 21st of 2022.
however what it's done is it's
Consolidated info from so many different
advisories circulars on weather so it
canceled a number of advisories circular
CF FIS really pay attention if your
lesson plans quote any of the following
advisory circulars Aviation Weather
Services aviation weather that's
ac00-6 hazardous Mountain winds
thunderstorms clear air turbulence
avoidance Pilot's guide to wind shear
please don't quote those advisory
circulars because they are effectively
canceled by the way in the new book
there's a really fun and clever appendix
in the back of it that shows cloud types
and other reference information we'll
link to the new reference in the
description below as well here's another
one did you know the FAA adopted a final
rule requiring commercial hot air
balloon Pilots add that to my one to-do
list commercial balloon Pilots to hold a
medical certificate when flying paying
passengers this was issued again
November of last year November of 2022 a
second class medical is required now
just like any other commercial pilots
balloon piles were previously exempt
from the medical requirement and this
again is a step to increase the safety
of hot air balloon tourism reference
again down below here's a big one some
knowledge tests changes and this just
happened last month as of April 24th of
2023 your Private Pilot Knowledge Test
the time is reduced from 150 minutes to
complete the test to now just 120
Minutes your commercial written test
time is now reduced from 180 minutes to
150 minutes now here's another thing
there are now five unscored validation
questions that are going to be added so
this is increase in the Private Pilot
Knowledge Test from 60 to 65 questions
the same with commercial five new
unscored validation questions taking it
from 100 questions to 105. now here's
the kicker these unscored questions
they're not going to count towards the
test taker's score in fact they're
randomized you may not even know with
this one you're working so hard on is
one of those new unscored questions the
FAA is trying to update the question
database yet again and they're trickling
in these test questions they're of no
consequence they just want to see wow
everybody bombed it on this one we maybe
wrote that question not that well let's
fix it so they're using this to test and
I guess we are their guinea pigs in a
way so if you're ever and maybe you're
an online Ground School member of ours
and we've had uh we've had some more
ground swimmers reach out to us already
Saint Jason I went through the entire
private Hall ground school I went
through the entire private pop boot camp
and you said I'd see every question in
your ground school I got to the test and
there was a new question I didn't see
well that was probably one of the new
questions they're working to try to
validate and it had no consequence to it
so keep that in mind if you get to the
test and you see a question you have
never even seen before it's probably one
of those new questions don't take it
lightly just in case still do your best
on it now that's for private and
Commercial there are no changes to
instrument at this time here's another
one for those that live in areas like
Alaska the FAA has a very cool program
they use called the FAA weather camera
program and they've enhanced this
through the new visibility estimation
through image analytics or via algorithm
it's actually been approved by the FAA
and is very soon going to be available
for use and this works with actually
learning landmarks with a known distance
and comparing it to the current images
to Ideal images and through that it
estimates the visibility the same way
you and I do with the human eye
validating via results against the
automatic service observation system
your Asos readings found via to actually
be 90 percent more accurate in detecting
low visibility now for those who aren't
familiar the fa's weather camera program
it started actually about two decades
ago in Alaska as to give Pilots kind of
an eyes on review
for looking at weather in some remote
areas that may not produce a Metar Asos
awos anything like that thus giving
enhanced situational awareness so it
just helps fill gaps in coverage for
these pilots and a reference to that
down below as well in addition to this
also in Alaska the FAA is publishing 54
GPS guided routes in Alaska this is
allowing Pilots to navigate direct now
with some direct flight paths at lower
altitudes to help them avoid icing
conditions it's technically 30 new
routes and 24 amended terminal
transition routes my instrument Pilots
know that as T routes and that's a part
of the faa's Alaska Aviation safety
initiative a source is down below for
that if you want to learn more about it
here's a big one where my remote Pilots
at remote Pilots you've heard about this
let me do my best to break this down
into plain English now under federal law
recreational drone Flyers must follow
the safety guidelines of an FAA
recognized community-based organization
CBO is the buzzword for that now
regardless if recreational you must
follow the regulations the FAA issued
guidance in advisory circular
9157 Charlie and they did this back in
October on how to become an FAA
recognized community-based Organization
for recreational drone flying now the
organization is required to develop its
safety guidelines in coordination with
the FAA and an applicant may wish to
tailor them to their particular type of
unmanned flying again that's advisory
circular 9157c or Charlie that explains
how the recreational flyer of the
unmanned aircraft May comply with the
statutory requirements of title 489 it
also explains how to become a CBO and
how to become a fixed site that's
another buzzword for you by the way a
fixed site is just a location with a
standing airspace authorization for
recreational flying while a Fria is a
location where an unmanned aircraft May
operate without remote identification in
some places where an airspace
authorization is required for
recreational flying such as controlled
airspace and where a CBO has obtained
approval for a Fria a Freya and a fixed
site may actually overlap so don't
confuse your definitions here if a CBO
has obtained authorization for a fixed
site but has not obtained approval for a
Fria guess what remote ID it still
applies so just keep that in mind as
well here's another one I think we're on
number seven now maybe addendum to the P
hack Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical
Knowledge they updated a paragraph in
the flight instrument section it reads
as follows the pitch and Bank limits of
an attitude indicator depend upon the
make and model of the instrument some
attitude caters have limits in the
banking plane from 100 to 110 degrees
and the pitch limits can be from 60 to
70. here's the part they added for those
attitude indicators that display only
pitch information of plus or minus 25
degrees vertically the instrument could
Peg meaning stop and remain at this
pitch indication until it no longer
exceeds limitations right that literally
tumbles is what they're saying here and
provides erroneous pitch and Bank
indications when the aircraft exceeds
these limits now this may be extremely
hazardous when the aircraft is operating
in instrument conditions or can a
confused pilot during unusual attitude
recovery a number of modern ads
indicators do not have this problem by
the way and I'm proud of the FAA because
this was actually an NTSB recommendation
remember through a lot of our accidents
the FAA makes safety recommendations it
was related to a helicopter crash doing
search and rescue in Alaska and it's
safety recommendation
a-14-109 referenced down below but super
proud of the FAA for taking that safety
recommendation say hey we're adding it
to the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical
Knowledge last little thing here for you
I'm always proud to brag on our Ground
School members so every year the FAA
publishes their average scores on their
written tests so there are almost 40 000
Private Pilot written tests taken in
2022 with an average score of just 82
percent did you know m0a online Ground
School members score seven points higher
above the FAA national average and
you'll continue if you're in the m-sary
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95s and several 100s each and every week
so uh average score by the way for
instrument pilot 86 percent commercial
pilot 88 and this is the shocking one to
me remember pilot just 80 percent and
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here today I hope you did I hope you'll
take some this knowledge cfis into your
lesson plans to your learners I hope
those of you prepping for a check writer
to say listen check got that now I know
for my check ride as well can't wait to
read your comments down below what did
you learn let me know in the comments
Below have a blessed abundant
outstanding rest your day and most
importantly remember that a good pilot
is always learning have a great day
everybody I'll see you
thank you
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