[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 14CFR65.49]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                               (CONTINUED)

 

PART 65_CERTIFICATION: AIRMEN OTHER THAN FLIGHT CREWMEMBERS--Table of 

Contents

 

              Subpart B_Air Traffic Control Tower Operators

 

Sec. 65.49  General operating rules.



    (a) Except for a person employed by the FAA or employed by, or on 

active duty with, the Department of the Air Force, Army, or Navy, or the 

Coast Guard, no person may act as an air traffic control tower operator 

under a certificate issued to him or her under this part unless he or 

she has in his or her personal possession an appropriate current medical 

certificate issued under part 67 of this chapter.

    (b) Each person holding an air traffic control tower operator 

certificate shall keep it readily available when performing duties in an 

air traffic control tower, and shall present that certificate or his 

medical certificate or both for inspection upon the request of the 

Administrator or an authorized representative of the National 

Transportation Safety Board, or of any Federal, State, or local law 

enforcement officer.

    (c) A certificated air traffic control tower operator who does not 

hold a facility rating for a particular control tower may not act at any 

operating position at the control tower concerned unless there is 

maintained at that control tower, readily available to persons named in 

paragraph (b) of this section, a current record of the operating 

positions at which he has qualified.

    (d) An air traffic control tower operator may not perform duties 

under his certificate during any period of known physical deficiency 

that would make him unable to meet the physical requirements for his 

current medical certificate. However, if the deficiency is temporary, he 

may perform duties that are not affected by it whenever another 

certificated and qualified operator is present and on duty.

    (e) A certificated air traffic control tower operator may not 

control air traffic with equipment that the Administrator has found to 

be inadequate.

    (f) The holder of an air traffic control tower operator certificate, 

or an applicant for one, shall, upon the reasonable request of the 

Administrator, cooperate fully in any test that is made of him.



[Doc. No. 1179, 27 FR 7973, Aug. 10, 1962, as amended by Amdt. 65-31, 52 

FR 17519, May 8, 1987]