[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 81 (Monday, April 28, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 23120]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10632]
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Part X
Department of Transportation
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Federal Aviation Administration
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14 CFR Part 121
Training and Qualification Requirements for Check Airmen and Flight
Instructors: Correction and Editorial Changes; Final Rule
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 121
[Docket No. 28471; Amendment No. 121-264]
RIN 2120-AF08
Training and Qualification Requirements for Check Airmen and
Flight Instructors: Correction and Editorial Changes
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Final rule; correction.
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SUMMARY: This amendment makes corrections and minor editorial changes
to regulations published on June 17, 1996 (61 FR 30734). This amendment
will not impose any additional restrictions on persons affected by
these regulations. The final rule published on June 17, 1996,
established separate requirements for check airmen who check only in
flight simulators and flight instructors who instruct only in flight
simulators. In addition this rule allows check airmen and flight
instructors to obtain all of their flight training in simulators, as
opposed to the current scheme in which initial and transition flight
training must include an in-flight element.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 28, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom Toula, Telephone (202) 267-3766.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 17, 1996, the FAA published a regulation that established
separate requirements for check airmen who check only in flight
simulators and flight instructors who instruct only in flight
simulators. A reference to Sec. 121.411 in current Sec. 121.409(b)(4)
is no longer appropriate. Flight instructor qualification requirements
have been moved to new Sec. 121.412. This correction will change the
reference in Sec. 121.409(b)(4) to Sec. 121.412.
It was the intent of this rule to have the requirements of
Sec. 121.412(e) virtually identical to those in Sec. 121.411(e). Upon
further review there appears to be a difference between Sec. 121.411(e)
and Sec. 121.412(e) in that Sec. 121.412(e) prohibits a flight
instructor who has reached his or her 60th birthday from serving as an
instructor. By this correction, the requirements will be identical.
Under Sec. 121.413(d), the last word of the paragraph was rendered as
``transaction'' instead of ``transition'' as the FAA had specified.
List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 121
Air carriers, Aircraft, Airmen, Aviation safety, Safety, Reporting
and recordkeeping requirements, Transportation.
Accordingly, Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part
121 is amended as follows:
PART 121--OPERATING REQUIREMENTS: DOMESTIC, FLAG, AND SUPPLEMENTAL
OPERATIONS
1. The authority citation for part 121 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 40119, 44101, 44701-44702,
and 44705, 44709-44711, 44713, 44716-44717 44722, 44901, 44901-
44904, 44912, 46105.
2. Section 121.409 is amended by revising paragraph (b)(4) (the
undesignated paragraph following paragraph (b)(4) remains unchanged) to
read as follows:
Sec. 121.409 Training courses using airplane simulators and other
training devices.
(b) * * *
(4) Is given by an instructor who meets the applicable requirements
of Sec. 121.412.
* * * * *
3. Section 121.412 is amended by revising paragraph (e) to read as
follows:
Sec. 121.412 Qualifications: Flight instructors (airplane) and flight
instructors (simulator).
* * * * *
(e) Flight instructors who have reached their 60th birthday, or who
do not hold an appropriate medical certificate, may function as flight
instructors, but may not serve as pilot flight crewmembers in
operations under this part.
4. Section 121.413 is amended by revising paragraph (d) to read as
follows:
Sec. 121.413 Initial and transition training and checking
requirements: Check airmen (airplane), check airmen (simulator).
* * * * *
(d) The transition ground training for check airmen must include
approved methods, procedures, and limitations for performing the
required normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures applicable to the
airplane to which the check airman is in transition.
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Issued in Washington, DC, on April 21, 1997.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel, Regulations Division.
[FR Doc. 97-10632 Filed 4-25-97; 8:45 am]
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