Instrument Practice Test
Free, full-length Instrument practice built from the official FAA source material, with every answer verified against the regulation or handbook it cites and weighted to match the real IRA topic mix.
- Questions
- 60 per sitting
- Time limit
- 2.5 hours
- Passing score
- 70%
- Full-length tests
- 4
- Question bank
- 883
Instrument practice tests
What is on the Instrument test
The IRA test draws from these subject areas in roughly these proportions, per the FAA Airman Certification Standards. Your practice exams are weighted to match, so a mock feels like the real sitting.
| Subject area | Share of test | Per sitting |
|---|---|---|
| Preflight Preparation | 24–28% | 16 of 60 |
| Instrument Approach Procedures | 24–28% | 16 of 60 |
| Preflight Procedures | 12–16% | 8 of 60 |
| Flight by Reference to Instruments | 9–13% | 7 of 60 |
| Navigation Systems | 6–10% | 5 of 60 |
| Air Traffic Control Clearances and Procedures | 5–9% | 4 of 60 |
| Emergency Operations | 4–8% | 3 of 60 |
| Postflight Procedures | 1–3% | 1 of 60 |
Answers you can check
A plausible-looking answer can be confidently wrong, and without a source you would have no way to know. Every Instrument answer is tied to the FAA passage it comes from, FAA-H-8083-15 and the Airman Certification Standards, and re-checked against that source before it ships. The citation sits right on the question, so you can see exactly what it is grounded in.