PLT449: Proficiency Check Requirements
What code PLT449 covers, why the FAA tests it, and how to study Proficiency Check Requirements before your checkride.
Recall regulations - proficiency check requirements
What this means for your checkride
No certificate holder may use, and no person may serve as, a required pilot flight crewmember unless that person has satisfactorily completed a proficiency check or an approved simulator course of training. For a pilot in command, a proficiency check is required within the preceding 12 calendar months in the aircraft type in which the person is to serve, with additional recurring requirements. These checks confirm continued competence to serve in the assigned crew position.
Pilots must know the recurring proficiency check requirement that keeps them qualified to serve in air carrier operations.
Where to study it
A code on your test report is an area of deficiency. An authorized instructor must review it with you and endorse that review before you take the practical test, and the examiner may revisit it during the oral. Study it until you can explain it out loud, not just recognize the answer.