Transport i lotnictwo · 22.02.1996

Training and Qualification Requirements for Check Airmen and Flight Instructors

Some experienced pilots who would otherwise qualify as flight instructors or check airmen but who are not medically eligible to hold the requisite medical certificates, cannot perform flight instructor or check airmen functions even in simulators. This proposed rule would establish separate categories of requirements for check airmen who check only in flight simulators and flight instructors who instruct only in flight simulators. To ensure an equivalent level of safety, the affected check airmen and flight instructors would have to accomplish the following, which could be demonstrated in a flight simulator or flight training device: recency of experience requirements; biannual observation checks of their check airman/instructor abilities; and required training, including recurrent ground and flight training. A flight instructor (simulator) or check airman (simulator) would be required to meet recency of experience requirements, in the 12-month period preceding the performance of flight instruction or check airman functions, by flying two flight segments as a required crewmember for the type aircraft involved, if medically qualified and certificated, or by participating in a line-o