Your FAA Form 8710-1 lives in IACRA. Uploading a PDF of it to your checkride checks off the IACRA items on your pre-checkride checklist, gives you, your instructor, and your DPE one copy to review and sign, and is a backup in case IACRA is down on the day of your checkride. Here is how to get the PDF out of IACRA and upload it.

1. Sign In to IACRA

Go to iacra.faa.gov, enter your IACRA username and password, and click Login.

The IACRA home page, with the Username and Password boxes and the Login button

2. Accept the Terms of Service as an Applicant

IACRA shows its Terms of Service and asks which role you are signing in as. Click the Accept TOS as button next to APPLICANT.

I agree to the Terms of Service & select: Accept TOS as APPLICANT, or as RECOMMENDING INSTRUCTOR

3. Find Your Application

The Applicant Console opens. Under Your Existing Applications, find the application for this checkride. The Certificate Type column tells them apart, for example ATP > Standard > CFR 61 > Original. If you have more applications than fit, the older ones are on the pages numbered below the table.

The IACRA Applicant Console: Start New Application, and Your Existing Applications with each application's certificate type, status, and Available Actions

4. Choose View/Print, Then Go

In that application's Available Actions menu, choose View/Print, then click Go next to it.

An application's Available Actions menu open, offering Continue, View/Print, and Delete, with View/Print chosen
The application's row with View/Print chosen and the Go button next to it
Delete is in the same menu, just below View/Print. Check that View/Print is the one showing before you click Go.

5. Open the PDF

IACRA opens its copy of your FAA Form 8710-1 in a new window. Click View/Print PDF at the top.

IACRA's copy of the form, headed Airman Certificate and/or Rating Application, with an arrow pointing to View/Print PDF among the Print, Close, Save as Tiff, Rotate, and Zoom controls above it

If no window opens, your browser has blocked it. Allow pop-ups for iacra.faa.gov and click Go again.

6. Save the PDF

The PDF opens in your browser. Save it to your computer or phone with the PDF viewer's download button: in Firefox and Chrome, it's the arrow at the top right.

The 8710-1 PDF open in Firefox, with an arrow pointing to the Save button at the top right of the viewer

7. Upload It to Your Checkride

In DPE Waitlist, open the checkride (or Checkride Prep) from your Checkrides page. Under Attached Documents, click Attach Document and choose the PDF you saved. Then choose 8710-1 as the Document Type and click Upload. Only one 8710-1 can be attached to a checkride or prep, so if you change your application in IACRA afterwards, delete the old copy and upload the new one.

Attached Documents on a checkride, with an 8710 and Attach Document
Attached Documents on a checkride, with an 8710 and Attach Document

The platform reads the form, usually within a minute. It checks off the IACRA items on your checklist and fills in what it can from the form, such as the aircraft type and your flight hours. Then you, your instructor, and your DPE sign it: see Signing Your FAA Form 8710-1.

If your application shows your Social Security number, the platform prints DO NOT USE over it on the stored copy, the way IACRA prints it when you don't give one.