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Flight Instructor Practical Test Standards for Airplane (FAA-S-8081-6D) is current in 2024. This book includes Section 2 only, covering multi-engine airplanes.

ASA reprints the most current FAA Practical Test Standards (PTS) in this series of handy cockpit-sized guides. The PTS guide students, instructors, and FAA-designated examiners through checkrides. Written by the FAA, these books list the knowledge and experience prerequisites, the levels of skill that must be demonstrated before an examiner can issue a certificate or rating to an applicant, and describe background study and reference materials.