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What are the 5 Ps used to re-evaluate risk during a flight?

Choices

  • ✓ Plan, Plane, Pilot, Passengers, Programmingcorrect

    The 5 Ps are Plan, Plane, Pilot, Passengers, and Programming.

  • Pilot, Position, Power, Pitch, Performance

    That is not the 5 Ps model.

  • Plan, Practice, Patience, Precision, Proficiency

    These are not the 5 Ps.

  • Preflight, Pushback, Pattern, Pilotage, Parking

    These are unrelated to the 5 Ps risk model.

Why

The 5 Ps — Plan, Plane, Pilot, Passengers, and Programming — prompt a pilot to reassess risk at key decision points in flight.

FAA source: Risk Management Handbook / the 5 Psbrowse the reference library →

This is taught in Risk Frameworks: PAVE, the 5 Ps and DECIDE — study the lessons free, then practice with grading and mastery tracking.

Original study question written for this course — representative of FAA knowledge-test topics, not an actual current FAA exam question.

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