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What does the IMSAFE checklist assess?

Choices

  • ✓ Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, and Emotioncorrect

    IMSAFE is a personal fitness self-assessment of these six items.

  • Instruments, Magnetos, Switches, Avionics, Fuel, Engine

    That is an invented list; IMSAFE covers pilot fitness, not the aircraft.

  • The aircraft weight and balance

    IMSAFE assesses the pilot, not aircraft loading.

  • The route, altitude, and fuel plan

    Those are navigation items, not the IMSAFE checklist.

Why

IMSAFE stands for Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, and Emotion — a preflight self-assessment of the pilot’s fitness to fly on that day.

FAA source: PHAK Ch. 2 / IMSAFE checklistbrowse the reference library →

This is taught in Personal Fitness to Fly: Alcohol, Drugs, Fatigue and IMSAFE — 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.

What does the IMSAFE checklist assess? · PPL Free Ground School