Checklist Content Review

Deck	ACS edition	Date verified
Commercial maneuvers	FAA-S-ACS-7B	8 September 2026
Private maneuvers	FAA-S-ACS-6C	8 September 2026
Instrument procedures	FAA-S-ACS-8C	8 September 2026

The active edition for each deck is also shown on the deck itself — on the page, in the downloaded .txt file, and on every printed card and quick-reference sheet — as long as the deck's definition has not been edited from the shipped template. An edited definition is content nobody has reviewed, so it carries no verification claim.

A deck is re-reviewed when the FAA publishes a new or revised edition of the Airman Certification Standards document it draws from (the Private, Commercial, or Instrument ACS), or when there is a credible report that a card's wording does not match the ACS Task it claims to. It is not reviewed on a fixed calendar — the ACS revises on its own timeline, and a calendar-based trigger would either re-check decks that have not changed or miss a revision that lands mid-cycle.

When a new edition is published, every card in the affected deck is re-checked against it before that deck's ACS-edition label is updated. The label is changed only once the content behind it has been re-verified against the new edition — bumping the label without re-verifying the content would be worse than leaving the old label in place.

The commercial maneuvers deck's first draft was checked against the ACS a second time, and these 8 items were corrected before it shipped:

1. Emergency Descent — the airspeed tolerance is asymmetric, +0/−10 kt, not a symmetric ±10 kt. A symmetric tolerance would have permitted the dangerous direction (faster than the POH limitation).
2. Slow Flight and Stalls — altitude floors — 1,500 ft AGL for single-engine airplanes and 3,000 ft AGL for multiengine airplanes. These are two different numbers keyed to airplane class, not one shared floor.
3. Stall recovery point — commercial stalls are recovered at the first indication of a stall, or after a full stall, as the evaluator specifies — not always to the full stall (that is the private-pilot standard, which runs the other way).
4. Eights-on-Pylons bank — not to exceed 40°. The ACS states only an upper bound.
5. Engine Failure After Liftoff — airspeed ±5 kt, with no altitude or bank tolerance specified by the Task.
6. Approach and Landing with an Inoperative Engine — touchdown within the first one-third of the available runway, not a fixed-distance window.
7. Maneuvering with One Engine Inoperative — recovery allows for minimum sink rate as an alternative to a hard altitude number where applicable.
8. Vmc Demonstration — recovery heading tolerance is within 20° of the entry heading, not the ±10° used elsewhere in the deck.

These decks summarize the Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3C) or the Instrument Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-15B); they do not quote either source document verbatim. This tool is a reference aid, not a source of authority, and it is not a substitute for the approved checklist or Pilot's Operating Handbook for your airplane. Check the editions in force before a practical test.