The National Association of Flight Instructors and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association have asked the FAA to clarify or rescind apparent changes to airman knowledge test-bank questions that the agency made without notifying industry stakeholders.
The request comes after an unusually high numbers of pilot-applicant failures in recent weeks. Some testing centers recorded quadruple the failure rate, as compared to before the changes.
“We learned last week that the FAA’s Airman Testing Standards Branch recently implemented changes to the banks of questions the agency uses to compile knowledge tests for pilot candidates,” said NAFI Executive Director Jason Blair. “These include the airline transport pilot, flight engineer, and fundamentals of instruction tests—and possibly more—and they involved significant revisions to test-bank questions.” Continue reading
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