[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR141.41]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                               (CONTINUED)

 

PART 141_PILOT SCHOOLS--Table of Contents

 

       Subpart B_Personnel, Aircraft, and Facilities Requirements

 

Sec. 141.41  Flight simulators, flight training devices, and training 

aids.



    An applicant for a pilot school certificate or a provisional pilot 

school certificate must show that its flight



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simulators, flight training devices, training aids, and equipment meet 

the following requirements:

    (a) Flight simulators. Each flight simulator used to obtain flight 

training credit allowed for flight simulators in an approved pilot 

training course curriculum must--

    (1) Be a full-size aircraft cockpit replica of a specific type of 

aircraft, or make, model, and series of aircraft;

    (2) Include the hardware and software necessary to represent the 

aircraft in ground operations and flight operations;

    (3) Use a force cueing system that provides cues at least equivalent 

to those cues provided by a 3 degree freedom of motion system;

    (4) Use a visual system that provides at least a 45-degree 

horizontal field of view and a 30-degree vertical field of view 

simultaneously for each pilot; and

    (5) Have been evaluated, qualified, and approved by the 

Administrator.

    (b) Flight training devices. Each flight training device used to 

obtain flight training credit allowed for flight training devices in an 

approved pilot training course curriculum must--

    (1) Be a full-size replica of instruments, equipment panels, and 

controls of an aircraft, or set of aircraft, in an open flight deck area 

or in an enclosed cockpit, including the hardware and software for the 

systems installed that is necessary to simulate the aircraft in ground 

and flight operations;

    (2) Need not have a force (motion) cueing or visual system; and

    (3) Have been evaluated, qualified, and approved by the 

Administrator.

    (c) Training aids and equipment. Each training aid, including any 

audiovisual aid, projector, tape recorder, mockup, chart, or aircraft 

component listed in the approved training course outline, must be 

accurate and appropriate to the course for which it is used.



[Doc. No. 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997; Amdt. 141-9, 62 FR 40908, 

July 30, 1997]