[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: 14CFR141.79]



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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 E_Operating Rules

 

Sec. 141.79  Flight training.



    (a) No person other than a certificated flight instructor or 

commercial pilot with a lighter-than-air rating who has the ratings and 

the minimum qualifications specified in the approved training course 

outline may give a student flight training under an approved course of 

training.

    (b) No student pilot may be authorized to start a solo practice 

flight from an airport until the flight has been approved by a 

certificated flight instructor or commercial pilot with a lighter-than-

air rating who is present at that airport.

    (c) Each chief instructor and assistant chief instructor assigned to 

a training course must complete, at least once every 12 calendar months, 

an approved syllabus of training consisting of ground or flight 

training, or both, or an approved flight instructor refresher course.

    (d) Each certificated flight instructor or commercial pilot with a 

lighter-than-air rating who is assigned to a flight training course must 

satisfactorily complete the following tasks, which must be administered 

by the school's chief instructor, assistant chief instructor, or check 

instructor:

    (1) Prior to receiving authorization to train students in a flight 

training course, must--

    (i) Accomplish a review of and receive a briefing on the objectives 

and standards of that training course; and

    (ii) Accomplish an initial proficiency check in each make and model 

of aircraft used in that training course in which that person provides 

training; and

    (2) Every 12 calendar months after the month in which the person 

last complied with the requirements of paragraph (d)(1)(ii) of this 

section, accomplish a recurrent proficiency check in one of the aircraft 

in which the person trains students.



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

July 30, 1997]