What documents are mandatory for aircraft?

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires commercial aircraft in the US to have four pieces of paperwork onboard before it can fly. These are the airworthiness certificate, registration certificate, operating manual, and weight & balance. The regulatory authorities use the acronym AROW for this requirement.



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We'll start on familiar ground, with the mnemonic AROW. The letters stand for the documents that must be carried aboard an airplane. They are an airworthiness certificate, registration certificate, operating limitations, and weight and balance information.

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You have all of the required essentials with you: Logbook with signed endorsement from your instructor, third class medical certificate, student pilot certificate, and one government issued photo ID. You're legal to fly. As a private pilot, you'll be flying farther than the pattern for a few touch and go-s.

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Date. Total flight time or lesson time. Location where the aircraft departed and arrived, or for lessons in a flight simulator or flight training device, the location where the lesson occurred. Type and identification of aircraft, flight simulator, flight training device, or aviation training device, as appropriate.

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The FAA doesn't lay out exactly how you should log your hours, even those hours that the rules require. While commercially available paper pilot logbooks have been the standard for decades, nothing specifically says a digital one won't do.

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Generally the logbook entries are not checked, however, the consequences of false entries being detected are severe-you will be fired from a piloting joib and likely have your pilot's license suspended or revoked.

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If you prefer or consider changing to digital logbook, you can store and manage the flight data without carrying a printed logbook with you. Most pilots rightfully fear from losing their flight records. By using a modern digital logbook this can be easily avoided.

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You need a medical certificate before flying solo in an airplane, helicopter, gyroplane, or airship. We suggest you get your medical certificate before beginning flight training.

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