Create a personalised ATP/ADX study plan

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Purpose

What this workflow does

Turns your exam date, available study hours and current subject confidence into a week-by-week study sequence with specific sessions rather than a list of topics.

Timing

When it is useful

At the start of your preparation, and again whenever your exam date moves or a diagnostic shows your weak areas have shifted.

Method

Step by step

01Write down your target exam date and the number of hours you can realistically study each week. Be honest rather than aspirational.
02Rate your confidence in each of the ten ATP/ADX subjects from 1 to 5.
03Paste the prompt below and fill in the bracketed sections with your real figures.
04Ask the model to explain why it sequenced the subjects the way it did. If the reasoning is weak, the plan is weak.
05Check the plan against the FAA Airman Certification Standards for your certificate to confirm nothing examinable has been dropped.
06Move the plan into a calendar or tracker. A plan that stays in a chat window does not get followed.

Copy and use

The prompt

You are helping me build a study plan for the FAA [ATP / Aircraft Dispatcher (ADX)] knowledge examination.

My situation:
- Target exam date: [DATE]
- Study time available: [HOURS] hours per week, usually on [DAYS]
- Background: [YOUR AVIATION BACKGROUND, OR "none"]
- Confidence by subject, rated 1 (weak) to 5 (strong):
  Regulations: [1-5]
  Aviation weather: [1-5]
  Weather reports and forecasts: [1-5]
  Weight and balance: [1-5]
  Aircraft performance: [1-5]
  Navigation: [1-5]
  Flight planning: [1-5]
  Fuel requirements: [1-5]
  Dispatch procedures: [1-5]
  Human factors: [1-5]

Produce:
1. A week-by-week plan from today to my exam date, with each week broken into named study sessions that fit my available hours.
2. For each session: the specific topic, the intended outcome, and how I will know I have met it.
3. A rationale explaining your sequencing decisions, especially which subjects you front-loaded and why.
4. Two checkpoint weeks with a self-assessment I can use to re-plan.
5. A list of what you have assumed about my situation and what you were unsure about.

Constraints:
- Weight the plan toward my weakest subjects but do not leave any subject untouched.
- Prefer active recall and worked problems over passive reading.
- Do not promise or imply any particular exam result.
- Tell me plainly where your knowledge of current FAA material may be out of date and what I should verify myself.

Your input

What you must provide

Your exam date and which examination you are sitting.
Realistic weekly study hours and which days you can use.
A self-rating for each of the ten subjects.
Any prior aviation experience or training that changes your starting point.

Before you rely on it

Verification steps

Check the subject coverage against the current FAA Airman Certification Standards for your certificate.
Confirm that every subject appears somewhere in the plan, not only your weak ones.
Sanity-check the total hours against your actual calendar before committing.
Re-run the plan after each checkpoint rather than trusting the original sequence to the end.

Boundaries

Aviation safety limitations

A study plan is a schedule, not a prediction. No plan, and no tool, can guarantee an examination result.
The model may not know the current test structure or recent ACS revisions. Verify the syllabus against FAA sources.
The model does not know your real comprehension. Your self-rating drives the output, so an inaccurate rating produces an inaccurate plan.

Verify before use · AI-generated information must always be verified against current regulations, approved manuals, official weather products and company procedures.

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