PHAK chapter 3 Aircraft Certification and Airworthiness - flight training
Welcome back, you curd nerds! In this episode of PHAK in Plain English, we dive into one of the most important — and most overlooked — parts of being a pilot: how airplanes get certified and declared airworthy.
From type certificates to production certificates, from concrete-loaded wings to STCs and the Miracle on the Hudson, this episode has it all. We’ll break down the FAA’s aircraft certification process in simple, digestible language — including real-world stories, personal anecdotes from my own Lake 200, and how understanding these systems could literally save lives.
🎯 Topics Covered:
The 6-step process of FAA certification
Type certificates, production certificates, and STCs
Experimental and light sport aircraft regulations
Sully and the Miracle on the Hudson as an ADM case study
What it really means when you call an airplane “airworthy”
A practical example with Garmin G5s in a rental 172
🧀 If you're a student pilot trying to make sense of the Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, this is the episode that ties a lot of the early confusion together with real-world application.
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