Disapprovals (Failed Practical Tests)

You use the Disapprovals page to view any failed practical tests on file for your pilot certificate in the FAA Comprehensive Airman Information System (CAIS). Notices of disapproval in the PRD are limited to those occurring on or after August 1, 2010. Prior to that date, practical test failures can be obtained from the FAA by completing AC Form 8070-72, FOIA Request for Copies to 3rd Party.

The Disapprovals page can be accessed at any time during your use of the PRD Airman Records portal by clicking Disapprovals on the top-level menu. The Disapprovals page displays.

Note

The Pilot Inbox page is the home (or landing) page for Pilot users, i.e., the page that displays following your role selection on the Select Access Criteria page. To return to the Select Access Criteria page and log in to the application using a different role, click Pilot Info on the top-level menu, then click the Back to Role Selection Page hyperlink just below the menu bar and header row.

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The title bar displays the application name, "Pilot Records Database," at the top of the page below the standard FAA page header. The Home, User Guide, Help and Sign Out links are displayed in the top-right corner of the FAA page header. The Home link navigates you to your landing (or home) page, Pilot Inbox. The User Guide link opens the PRD Pilot User Guide, which is the secondary resource for PRD Airman Records portal user procedures and reference information. The system Help link opens the top-level help topic, Welcome. The Sign Out link logs you out of PRD and displays the Sign Out page. Your name displays at the bottom of the FAA page header, right justified.

The top-level navigation menu displays at the top of the page (below the title bar) and contains links that provide access to the pilot functions: Pilot Inbox, Pilot Info, Disapprovals, Enforcement, Accidents/Incidents, Experience, Consent, Notifications, Correction and User Profile. The page-level Help link on the top-level menu opens the Help file to the help topic specific to the current page.

Below the menus, the header section displays your first name, last name, certificate number and the date you last visited the page in the PRD Airman Records portal. This header displays on each of the pilot information pages in PRD.

Below the header are the following notices: (1) A search of the FAA Comprehensive Airman Information System (CAIS) on the date of this report revealed the following failed practical tests on file for the certificates listed. If inaccuracies are discovered in the information shown below, refer to Advisory Circular 120-68 (latest edition) for instructions; and (2) The table below will indicate any unsatisfactory practical tests dated August 1, 2010 or later. To request records dated prior to August 2010, complete FAA Form AC-8060-72.

If there are no failed practical tests on file, the following notice displays: A search of the FAA Comprehensive Airman Information System (CAIS) on the date of this report, revealed no failed practical tests on file for the certificates listed. If inaccuracies are discovered in the information shown below, refer to Advisory Circular 120-68 (latest edition) for instructions.

CAIS Service Note

If the CAIS service is offline, a message displays on the screen to indicate that the service is not available. In this circumstance you will not be able to access any Disapproval data.

View Failed Practical Tests

Any failed practical tests on file in CAIS dated August 1, 2010 or later are displayed in the Failed Practical Test data grid. Just above the data grid is the following notice: "The table below will indicate any unsatisfactory practical tests dated August 1, 2010 or later. To request records dated prior to August 2010, complete FAA Form AC 8060-72." Clicking the form link takes you to the following URL https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Form/AC8060-72.pdf where you can download the form to request copies of any notices of disapproval.

Below this notice, the Failed Practical Tests data grid displays.

Working with the Failed Practical Test Data Grid

The column-heading row displays the descriptive text for the column contents. Each column heading is also used to sort the data in ascending or descending order. For more information on working with the data grid functions, see Working With Data Grids.

The default display for the data in the grid is as follows:

To export the data grid content, click Export To Excel or Export To PDF; see Exporting Data.