Part 141 Flashcards
(114 cards)
1
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The FAA may issue a pilot school certificate within the … calendar months
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24
2
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Within the 24 calendar months before the date application is made the applicant …
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Has established a pass rate of 80% or higher on the first attempt of all
- knowledge exams
- practical tests
- end of course exams
Has graduated 10 different people from the training courses
3
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Which courses are offered under 141?
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Recreational Private Commercial Instrument ATP CFI CFII Ground instructor Additional category or class Type rating
4
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What special preparation courses are there?
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Pilot refresher FIRC Ground instructor refresher Ag ops Rotorcraft external load Special ops Test pilot course ATP CTP
5
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What must be submitted for the issuance or amendment of a certificate or rating?
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2 copies of each proposed training course curriculum
6
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When does a school certificate expire?
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24 months
7
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What can cause a school certificate to expire?
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Change in ownership
Change in the facilities
If the school in unable to maintain the facilities, aircraft or personnel required for any training course for more than 60 days
8
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When does change of ownership not terminate a school’s certificate?
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If within 30 days after the change in ownership
- an application is made for the appropriate amendment to the certificate
- no change in the facilities, personnel or approved courses is involved
9
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When does examining authority expire?
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On the date that the pilot school certificate expires, surrenders, suspends or revoke s
10
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Where does the certificate have to be located?
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In a place in the school that is normally accessible to the public
11
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A certificate must be made available for inspection upon request by:
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The Administrator
Authorized rep of the NTSB
Federal, state or local law enforcement officer
12
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Why must you allow the administrator to inspect the facilities, personnel, equipment and records?
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To determine:
- eligibility to hold the certificate
- compliance with 49 USC 40102
- compliance with FARs
13
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Advertising limits:
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- no false or misleading statements
- May not advertise unless clearly differentiating between courses that have been approved and the ones that haven’t
14
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When do you have to remove advertisements?
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From vacated premises
When the certificate has expired or has been surrendered, suspended or revoked
15
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Requirements of the business office:
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- Mailing address in the name shown on the certificate
- facilities and equipment must be adequate to maintain the files and records
- May not be shared with or used by another pilot school
- notify FSDO before changing locations
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Requirements for changing locations:
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- submit in writing the change of location at least 30 days before the change
- accompanied by amendments needed for the approved training course outline
17
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When can you conduct training at an operations base other than the one specified in the certificate?
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- The administrator has inspected and approved the base
- The courses of training and any needed amendments have been approved
18
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When may a part 142 training center provide the training, testing and checking for a part 141 pilot school?
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- there’s a training agreement
- training, testing and checking is approved and conducted under part 142
- TCO is approved and includes training, testing and checking to be conducted under part 141 and 142
- upon completion of training under part 142 a copy of the training record is forwarded to the part 141 school and becomes part of the student record
19
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Can a pilot school provide training for an institution of higher education?
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Yes as long as the institution of higher Ed has a LOA under 61.169 and there’s a training agreement with the pilot school
20
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When can you apply for renewal of the school certificate?
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Within 30 days of the expiration
21
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How long is the renewal valid for?
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24 months
22
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What do you have to fulfill to renew your certificate?
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The administrator has to determine that the personnel, aircraft, facility and airport, approved training courses, records and recent training ability and quality meet the requirements of this part
23
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What happens if you don’t meet the renewal requirements?
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You can apply for a provisional pilot school certificate if you meet 141.7
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When can a provisional pilot school apply for a pilot school certificate?
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When it meets the requirements of 141.5
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Can a provisional pilot school renew it provisional pilot school certificate?
No, unless 180 days have passed since the last provisional pilot school certificate expired
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Define continuous use:
- ownership of the facility or airport for 6 calendar months
| - written lease agreement for the facility or airport for at least 6 calendar months
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What personnel requirements do you have to meet?
Adequate personnel to include:
- CFIs
- Ground instructors
- Chief
Have to have ratings for the approved course of training and any aircraft used in that course
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What if you employ dispatchers, aircraft handlers, and line and service personnel?
Must instruct them in the procedures and responsibilities
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Instructor Requirements for instructors used for the ATP CTP?
- ATP with airplane category multi engine class rating
- 2 years of experience under 91.1053, 135.243 or SIC or PIC under part 121
- training in the sim if a sim is used
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When can you designate a check instructor?
- Meet the requirements of 141.37
| - school has an enrollment of at least 10 students
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Requirements for a check instructor:
- must pass a test administered by the chief: teaching methods, AIM, part 61, 91, 141 and objectives and course completion standards
- hold a CPL or ATP and CFI with appropriate category and class and instrument ratings
- pass a proficiency test given by the chief or asst. chief on the flight maneuvers
- meet recency of flight experience 61.57
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How do you designate a check instructor?
In writing by the chief to conduct stage checks, end of course tests and instructor proficiency test
Be approved by the FSDO
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Limitations of a check instructor:
May not conduct stage checks or end of course tests for any student served as the principal instructor or recommended for a stage check or end of course test
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Can you employ former FAA employees?
Not if the person preceding 2 years
- acted as or was responsible for the oversight of a safety inspector
- and had direct oversight or responsibility to inspect the certificate holder
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Chief instructor qualifications:
- CPL or ATP
- CFI
- appropriate category + class + instrument rating
- meet recency requirements
- pass a knowledge test on: teaching methods, AIM, part 61, 91, 141, objectives and approved completion standards of the course
- pass a proficiency test on instructional skills and ability to train students on the flight procedures and maneuvers appropriate
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Chief time requirements for PPL course:
- 1000 PIC
| - CFI experience: 2 years + 500 or 1000
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Chief requirements for instrument course:
- instrument rating
- 100 hours actual or simulated instrument
- 1000 PIC
- CFII experience: 2 years + 250 or 400
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Chief requirements for other than PPL courses:
- 2000 PIC
| - CFI experience: 3 years + 1000 or 1500
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Asst. chief requirements:
- CPL or ATP
- CFI
- category, class and instrument rating
- Recency per 61.57
- Pass a knowledge test on: teaching methods, AIM, 61, 91, 141, objectives and approved course completion standards
- pass a proficiency test on the flight procedures and maneuvers
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Asst. Chief time requirements for PPL:
- 500 PIC
| - CFI experience: 1 year + 250 or 500
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Asst. Chief requirements for instrument:
- 50 hours instrument time
- 500 PIC
- CFII experience: 1 year + 125 or 200
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Asst. Chief time requirements for other than PPL:
- 1000 PIC
| - CFI Experience: 1.5 years + 500 or 750
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Requirements for training airports:
- Continuous use
- One runway to allow training aircraft to make normal TOLs under the following conditions:
- Wind not more than 5 mph
- Temp equal to the mean high temp for the hottest month of the year
- Powerplant, landing gear and flap operation recommended by the manufacturer
- Smooth transition from liftoff to the best rate of climb without exceptional piloting skills
- Clearing all obstacles in the T/O flight path by at least 50 ft
- Wind direction indicator visible from the end of each runway
- If no tower or UNICOM: traffic direction indicator
- If used for night training must have permanent runway lights
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Requirements for training aircraft:
- Civil aircraft of the US
- Standard airworthiness certificate
- Maintained and inspected in accordance to pat 91 subpart E
- Equipped and maintained for IFR is used for IFR training
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Requirements for full flight simulators and training devices:
- Qualified under part 60 and approved by the administrator for the tasks and maneuvers
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Requirements for aviation training devices:
Must be evaluated, qualified, and approved by the administrator
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Requirements for Training aids and equipment:
Listed in approved TCO
| Must be accurate and relevant to the course for which it is used
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Requirements for pilot briefing areas:
- Continuous use at each airport at which training flights originate
- Adequate to shelter students waiting to engage in training flights
- Arranged and equipped to conduct pilot briefings
- Equipped with private landline or phone communication to the nearest FSS
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Limitations of briefing areas:
- May not be used if it is available for use by another pilot school during the same period
- Communication equipmet not required if FSS is located at same field
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Requirements for Ground training facilities:
- Space used for instructional purposes is heated, lighted and ventilated to confrom to local building, sanitation and health codes
- Students should not be distracted by other training, flight or maintenance activities
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When do you not need ground training facilities?
When training is conducted through an internet based medium. However, a permanent business location and phone number are still required.
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How do you apply for a training course?
Submit application in duplicate to the local FSDO
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How far in advance do you have to submit an application for initial or amended training course?
At least 30 days before any training under that course or amendment thereto is scheduled to begin
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How many copies do you have to submit to amend a training course?
2
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For which training courses can you submit an application?
For those listed under 141.11(b)
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What must an application for an initial or amended training course offered through the internet comply with?
- All amendments must be identified numerically by page, date, and screen
- FAA must be provided with an acceptable means to log-in and log-off from a remote location to review all elements of the course and to by-pass the normal attendee restrictions
- School must incorporate adequate security measures (integrity, identification, confidentiality, availability, access control)
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What does each training course for which approval is requested have to meet?
The minimum curriculum requirements, flight and ground training time in accordance with the appropriate appendix
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What must each training course outline contain?
- Description of each room used for ground training including the room's size and the max number of occupants
- A description of each audiovisual aid, projector, tape recorder, mockup, chart, aircraft component and other special training aid used
- A description of each flight simulator or FTD
- A listing of the airports at which training flights originate
- Description of the facilities including pilot briefing areas
- Description of the type of aircraft
- Minimum qualifications and ratings for each instructor
- A training syllabus
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What must a training syllabus contain?
- Prerequisites for enrolling (certificate or rating, training, pilot experience and pilot knowledge)
- Detailed description of each lesson (objectives, standards, planned time for completion)
- Description of what the course is expected to accomplish
- Expected accomplishments and the standards for each stage of training
- Description of the checks and tests to be used for each stage of training
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When may a school request initial approval for a course that does not meet the minimum ground and flight training time requirement?
- For a period of not more than 24 months
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How long must a school have held its certificate to apply for the initial approval for a course that does not meet the minimum ground and flight time requirements?
For a period of at least 24 consecutive calendar months
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What must the training course specify if it doesn't meet the minimum ground or flight time requirement?
Planned ground and flight training time requirements
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What may the school not have or apply for in case a course does not meet the minimum time requirements?
The school does not request the course to be approved for examining authority nor does the school hold examining authority for that course
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Who can administer the practical test or knowledge test for a course that does not meet the minimum time requirements?
- FAA inspector
| - An examiner who is not an employee of the school
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When may a school request final approval for a course that does not meet the minimum ground and flight training time requirement?
- When it has held initial approval for at least 24 calendar months
- Trained at least 10 students in 24 calendar months and recommended those students for a certificate or rating
- At least 80% of those students passed the practical or knowledge test on the first attempt
- The test was given by an FAA inspector or examiner who is not an employee of the school
- The training course specifies planned ground and flight time
- The school does not request or hold examining authority for that course
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What's a special curricula?
A course of airman training for which a curriculum is not prescribed in the appendixes
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When may a school apply for a special curriculum?
When it can show that the training shows features that could achieve a level of pilot proficiency equivalent to that achieved by a training course prescribed in the appendixes or the requirements of part 61
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What prerequisites must a school meet to apply for initial examining authority?
- Complete application
- Must hold a 141 certificate
- Held the rating for at least 24 consecutive calendar months
- Course may not be approved without meeting the minimum ground and flight training time requirements
- 24 months prior to the application the 10 students must've been trained and 90% passed the practical or knowledge test on the first attempt
- The test was administered by an FAA inspector or an examiner who is not an employee of the school
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What must a school meet to retain examining authority?
- Complete application
- Hold a 141 certificate
- Must've held the rating for at least 24 months
- Training course is not approved for less ground and flight training time
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What can a school with examining authority do?
Recommend a person who graduated from a course for the appropriate certificate or rating without taking the knowledge or practical test
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What requirements need to be met in order for a school to recommend the issuance of a certificate or rating under examining authority?
- Person graduated from a training course
- Person completed curriculum requirements satis
- Transfer student didn't receive more than 50% credit
- Transfer student completes knowledge and proficiency test given by receiving school
- Receiving school determines credit and records it in student file
- Person obtained knowledge from another 141 school
- Receiving school retains copy of the persons previous training record
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What do tests under examining authenticity have to meet?
Must be approved by administrator and be at least equal in scope, depth and difficulty to the comparable knowledge and practical tests
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When may a school with examining authority not use its knowledge or pratical tests?
- Knows or has reason to believe that the test has been compromised
- Is notified by the local FSDO that the test may have been compromised
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Record keeping requirements for school with examining authority:
- Record of all temp airman certificates consisting of:
- Chronological listing to include
- Date temp airman cert was issued
- Student to whom temp cert was issued
Students permanent mailing address and phone number
- Course from which student graduated
- Name of person who conducted test
- Type of temp airman cert or rating
- Date the student's airman app was filed with FAA
- Copy of record containing graduation cert, airman app, temp airman cert, knowledge / practical test results
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How long do records for examining authority have to be kept?
1 year
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Who does the school need to submit the students airman app file and training record to when a student passes the knowledge or practical test?
To the FAA unless the school has an airman cert rep
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Privileges of a pilot school:
- Advertise and conduct approved training courses
- Examining authority: recommend a graduate for a certificate or rating without taking FAA knowledge or practical test provided that training has been approved and meets minimum ground and flight time requirements
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What must be carried on A/C used for flight training?
Pretakeoff and prelanding checklist
| POH (or copies if furnished to each student using the A/C)
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When can a pilot school issue a graduation certificate?
- Student has completed the training specified in the TC
- Student passed required final tests
- Student completed all curriculum requirements
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What credit can a pilot school give a student for previous training?
- If the training was conducted under part 141 or 142 not more than 50% of the training requirements of the curriculum
- If the training was conducted under a part other than 141 credit is limited to not more than 25%
- Receiving school must conduct a proficiency and knowledge test
- Completion of previous training must be certified in the students training records
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What information must a record for credit for previous training contain?
- Kind and amount of training provided
| - Results of each stage check and end-of-course test
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Who can provide flight training?
- CFI who has ratings and minimum qualifications as specified in approved TCO
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Limitations for student pilots:
No student pilot may be authorized to start solo until the flight has been approved by a CFI
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What flight training do chief and asst. chief need?
Every 12 calendar months an approved syllabus of training consisting of ground or flight training or both or a FIRC
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What must each CFI complete before allowed to start training?
- Accomplish a review of and receive briefing on the objectives and standards of that training course
- Accomplish a proficiency check in each MM of aircraft used in that training
- Recurrent proficiency check every 12 months in a airplane
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Who can give ground training?
- CFI
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Can a person who does not hold a CFI do ground training?
- Yes, if the chief finds that person qualified and the training
- is supervised by the chief or assistant chief
- Has been briefed on the objectives and standards of that course
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What quality requirements must a pilot school meet?
- Comply with approved training course
- Provide quality training as per 141.5
- Failure to meet those requirements may be basis for suspension or revocation of that schools certificate
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Can the FAA administer a knowledge test, practical test, stage check or end-of-course test?
Yes
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If a student has not completed the training course yet but the FAA administers the test what will it be based on?
The standards prescribed in the schools approved training course.
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If a student has completed the training course and the FAA administers the test what will it be based on?
The areas of operation approved by the Administrator
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Chief instructor responsibilities:
- Certifying each students:
- Training record
- Graduation certificate
- Stage check
- End-of-course test
- Recommendation of course completion
These duties can be assigned to an asst. chief
- Ensuring that each instructor passes initial proficiency check and recurrent every 12 months
- Ensuring that each student accomplishes the required stage checks and end-of-course tests
- Maintain training techniques, procedures and standards that are acceptable to the administrator
- Must be available at school or reachable by phone or other electronics means during training times
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What duties may a chief delegate to the asst. chief or check instructor?
- Stage checks
- End-of-course tests
- CFI proficiency checks
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What happens when a school changes chief instructor?
- Immediately notify local FSDO
- Continue training for not more than 60 days
- Have stage checks and end-of course tests administered by:
- Asst. chief
- CHeck insttructor
- FAA inspecotr
- An examiner
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What happens if a pilot school is without chief instructor for more than 60 days?
Must cease operations and surrender certificate
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When a pilot school have its certificate reinstated after having been without chief for more than 60 days?
- Designating and approving another chief
- Showing it meets requirements of 141.27(a)(2)
- Applied for reinstatement
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What does a pilot school have to ensure to enroll students in a course of training?
- Each airport, aircraft and facility meets the standards specified in the TCO and part 141
- Each chief, asst. chief, check instr. or instructor meets the qualifications of the TCO and of part 141
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When can you conduct training at a base other than the main operations base (i.e. satellite):
- An asst. chief is designated for each satellite base and is available at that base or reachable by electornic means during the time training is conducted
- Meet the requirements of subpart B (i.e. same requirements as main base)
- Instructors are under direct supervision of chief or asst. chief
- Local FSDO is informed if training is conducted for more than 7 consecutive days
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What does a pilot school have to furnish a student at the time of enrollment?
- Enrollment certificate containing the name of the course and date of enrollment
- Copy of the syllabus
- Copy of the safety procedures and practices
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What do the safety procedures and practices have to contain?
- Weather minimums for dual and solo flights
- Procedures for starting and taxiing on the ramp
- Fire precautions
- Redispatch procedures
- Aircraft discrepancies and approval for RTS
- Securing aircraft
- Fuel reserves
- Collision avoidance
- Minimum altitude limitations and simulated emergency instructions
- Description of and use of assigned practice areas
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What does a pilot school need to maintain?
Current monthly roster of each person enrolled in a training course
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Does a school have to issue a graduation certificate?
Yes
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What information needs to be on the graduation certificate?
- Name and certificate number of school
- Name of graduate
- Course of training
- Date of graduation
- Statement that the student has satisfactorily completed each stage
- Certification of the information by the chief instructor
- Statement showing the cross-country training received
- Certificates issued upon graduation from a course based on internet media must be uniquely identified using an alphanumeric code specific to that student
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Requirements for training records:
- Date the student was enrolled
- Chronological log of attendance, subjects, flight operations and names and grades of any tests
- Date the student graduated, terminated or transferred
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Is the students logbook sufficient as a training record?
No
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Who has to certify the training records if a student graduates, terminates or transfers?
Chief
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How long is a school required to keep training records?
At least 1 year from the date the student graduates, terminates or transfers
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What if a student requests a copy of his training records?
School has to furnish a copy
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What is a check instructor allowed to do?
Conduct:
- Stage checks
- End-of-course tests
- Proficiency tests
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Does the syllabus have to be in the TCO?
No. It may be a separate document. It should be identified in the TCO by name and current version identification number.
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Who do schools need to provide information to in the event of an accident or incident?
NTSB
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What information should be included in the syllabus?
Prerequisities:
- minimum pilot certificates and ratings
- class of medical
- training, experiences or special knowledge
- description of objectives and standards
- Stages and completion standards
- Lessons to include completion standards and objectives
- Desired student outcomes
- Description of stage checks and end of course tests
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What may the completion standards never be?
Less than those outlined in part 61, the ACS or PTS
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Does time from a stage check or end of course test count towards total training time?
Yes
