# 2025-08453: FAA Checks Whether Student Pilots Can Swim Before Survival Training

2025-08453, Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of New Approval of Information Collection: Basic Survival Skills for General Aviation Training Record, is a Federal Register notice from Transportation Department, Federal Aviation Administration published 2025-05-14 (as of 2026-10-20).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-08453
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of New Approval of Information Collection: Basic Survival Skills for General Aviation Training Record
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Transportation Department; Federal Aviation Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 20549
- Published: 2025-05-14
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-20

## In one line

FAA Checks Whether Student Pilots Can Swim Before Survival Training

## Summary

The FAA wants to collect new info about pilots’ swimming skills to make survival training safer and more useful. This affects general aviation students who take post-crash survival courses. They’re asking for public feedback by July 14, 2025, and this won’t cost students extra money but helps keep everyone safer.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for a new information collection. The information collected on the Basic Survival Skills for General Aviation Training Record is to provide information that the instructor will use to make the course more applicable to those students in attendance while also ascertaining their swimming capability to ensure safety during the training course. The information collected is required to assess and verify a student's ability to attend the post- crash survival course.

## Effects PRIA read

- FAA Will Collect Students' Swimming Skills: cost, low. If you are a pilot-in-training, the FAA plans to collect information about your swimming ability on a new "Basic Survival Skills for General Aviation Training Record" so instructors can tailor the post-crash survival course and verify you can attend. Instructors will also be involved in using and r…

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## Sources
- [2025-08453 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/14/2025-08453/agency-information-collection-activities-requests-for-comments-clearance-of-new-approval-of)
- [2025-08453 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-14/pdf/2025-08453.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08453 (as of 2026-10-20).