FAA Fast Team Notice - 6/20/2016
FAA Safety Team | Safer Skies Through Education
FAAST Blast ACS is Here!, FAA Offers ADS- B Rebate, GA Survey, eLogbook Logistics
Notice Number: NOTC6589
FAAST Blast Week of June 13, 2016 June 19, 2016
Biweekly FAA Safety Briefing News Update
Its Here! ACS for Private and Instrument Airplane Start This Week
On June 15, the FAA replaces the Practical Test Standards (PTS) for the private pilot airplane certificate and the instrument-airplane rating with the corresponding Airman Certification Standards (ACS). You will find copies of the ACS documents and detailed information for applicants, instructors, and evaluators at: www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs/. If you have a question not answered in the FAQs, email the FAAs ACS Focus Team: 9-AVS-ACS-Focus-Team@faa.gov.
FAA Offers ADS-B Rebate
Starting this Fall, the FAA is offering a monetary incentive to help owners of general aviation aircraft equip with the required avionics that comply with the ADS-B Out rule that will take effect Jan. 1, 2020. The agency will offer a $500 rebate to eligible aircraft owners. To be eligible, your aircraft must be a fixed-wing, single-engine piston aircraft that is U.S.-registered and not currently equipped with Version 2 ADS-B Out. Go to www.faa.gov/go/rebate for more information on the program rules.
General Aviation Survey Needs Your Help
The 38th annual General Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey (GA Survey) is currently underway. If you have received an invite to participate, please respond, even if you did not fly your aircraft in 2015. Your participation is very important. The GA Survey is the FAAs primary source of information about the size and activity of the GA and on-demand Part 135 fleet.
The information collected will be used only for statistical purposes and will not be released in any form that would reveal an individual participant. Tetra Tech is an independent research firm that conducts the survey on behalf of the FAA. You can contact them with questions at 1-800-826-1797 or via email infoaviationsurvey@tetratech.com.
eLogbook Logistics
Pilots: Do you record your flight experience in a paper or digital logbook? Keep in mind that how you document and record is not as important as what you document and record. Learn more about keeping your pilot logbook legal in the current issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine online at http://1.usa.gov/FAA_ASB. And if you have any particular tricks or techniques you'd like to share in connection with electronic logbooks, multimedia or otherwise, let us know and well share your comments.
Produced by the FAA Safety Briefing editors, http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/
Address questions or comments to: SafetyBriefing@faa.gov.
Follow us on Twitter @FAASafetyBrief or https://twitter.com/FAASafetyBrief
FAAST Blast ACS is Here!, FAA Offers ADS- B Rebate, GA Survey, eLogbook Logistics
Notice Number: NOTC6589
FAAST Blast Week of June 13, 2016 June 19, 2016
Biweekly FAA Safety Briefing News Update
Its Here! ACS for Private and Instrument Airplane Start This Week
On June 15, the FAA replaces the Practical Test Standards (PTS) for the private pilot airplane certificate and the instrument-airplane rating with the corresponding Airman Certification Standards (ACS). You will find copies of the ACS documents and detailed information for applicants, instructors, and evaluators at: www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs/. If you have a question not answered in the FAQs, email the FAAs ACS Focus Team: 9-AVS-ACS-Focus-Team@faa.gov.
FAA Offers ADS-B Rebate
Starting this Fall, the FAA is offering a monetary incentive to help owners of general aviation aircraft equip with the required avionics that comply with the ADS-B Out rule that will take effect Jan. 1, 2020. The agency will offer a $500 rebate to eligible aircraft owners. To be eligible, your aircraft must be a fixed-wing, single-engine piston aircraft that is U.S.-registered and not currently equipped with Version 2 ADS-B Out. Go to www.faa.gov/go/rebate for more information on the program rules.
General Aviation Survey Needs Your Help
The 38th annual General Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey (GA Survey) is currently underway. If you have received an invite to participate, please respond, even if you did not fly your aircraft in 2015. Your participation is very important. The GA Survey is the FAAs primary source of information about the size and activity of the GA and on-demand Part 135 fleet.
The information collected will be used only for statistical purposes and will not be released in any form that would reveal an individual participant. Tetra Tech is an independent research firm that conducts the survey on behalf of the FAA. You can contact them with questions at 1-800-826-1797 or via email infoaviationsurvey@tetratech.com.
eLogbook Logistics
Pilots: Do you record your flight experience in a paper or digital logbook? Keep in mind that how you document and record is not as important as what you document and record. Learn more about keeping your pilot logbook legal in the current issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine online at http://1.usa.gov/FAA_ASB. And if you have any particular tricks or techniques you'd like to share in connection with electronic logbooks, multimedia or otherwise, let us know and well share your comments.
Produced by the FAA Safety Briefing editors, http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/
Address questions or comments to: SafetyBriefing@faa.gov.
Follow us on Twitter @FAASafetyBrief or https://twitter.com/FAASafetyBrief
Scott Sherer
Wright Brothers Master Pilot, FAA Commercial Pilot