Aviate - Navigate - Communicate
Chapter 1   Aviate – Skills Assessment
This course outlines the use of a Personal Skills Assessment for Private
Pilot Airplane tasks. The same process can be applied other certificates
and ratings
In this chapter we will use the PTS to determine a pilot’s current state of
demonstrated Aviate skills.
This is accomplished by identifying the PTS tasks that relate to the Aviate
functions, for the ratings currently held.   The Private Pilot PTS Areas of
Operation that outline many Aviate skills are:
 Takeoffs, Landings, and Go-Arounds
  Performance Maneuver
  Ground Reference Maneuvers
  Slow Flight and Stalls
  Basic Instrument Maneuvers
  Emergency Operations