[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 81 (Monday, April 28, 1997)]
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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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