[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: 14CFR141.85]



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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. 141.85  Chief instructor responsibilities.



    (a) Each person designated as a chief instructor for a pilot school 

or provisional pilot school shall be responsible for:

    (1) Certifying each student's training record, graduation 

certificate, stage check and end-of-course test report, recommendation 

for course completion, and application;

    (2) Ensuring that each certificated flight instructor, certificated 

ground instructor, or commercial pilot with a lighter-than-air rating 

passes an initial proficiency check prior to that instructor being 

assigned instructing duties in the school's approved training course, 

and thereafter that the instructor passes a recurrent proficiency check 

every 12 calendar months after the month in which the initial test was 

accomplished;

    (3) Ensuring that each student accomplishes the required stage 

checks and end-of-course tests in accordance with the school's approved 

training course; and

    (4) Maintaining training techniques, procedures, and standards for 

the school that are acceptable to the Administrator.

    (b) The chief instructor or an assistant chief instructor must be 

available at the pilot school or, if away from the pilot school, be 

available by telephone, radio, or other electronic means during the time 

that training is given for an approved training course.

    (c) The chief instructor may delegate authority for conducting stage 

checks, end-of-course tests, and flight instructor proficiency checks to 

the assistant chief instructor or a check instructor.



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

July 30, 1997]