Rule2024-30939
Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement; Correction
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Published
December 27, 2024
Effective
December 27, 2024
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
On June 18, 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a final rule titled "Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement," which was corrected on July 16, 2024. That final rule removed inconsistencies applicable to the qualification requirements for check pilots and flight instructors in domestic, flag, and supplemental operations and flight instructors in commuter and on demand operations so that check pilots, check flight engineers, and flight instructors can continue to perform their functions in aircraft without a medical certificate unless they are serving as required flightcrew members. It also removed the medical certificate requirement for flight instructors in commuter and on-demand operations who perform their functions in aircraft and are not serving as required flightcrew members. The final rule inadvertently failed to revise two section headings. This document makes those corrections.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 248 (Friday, December 27, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 105447-105448]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-30939]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 135
[Docket No. FAA-2019-0360; Amdt. No. 135-145A]
RIN 2120-AL12
Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement;
Correction
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Correcting amendments.
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SUMMARY: On June 18, 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
published a final rule titled ``Removal of Check Pilot Medical
Certificate Requirement,'' which was corrected on July 16, 2024. That
final rule removed inconsistencies applicable to the qualification
requirements for check pilots and flight instructors in domestic, flag,
and supplemental operations and flight instructors in commuter and on
demand operations so that check pilots, check flight engineers, and
flight instructors can continue to perform their functions in aircraft
without a medical certificate unless they are serving as required
flightcrew members. It also removed the medical certificate requirement
for flight instructors in commuter and on-demand operations who perform
their functions in aircraft and are not serving as required flightcrew
members. The final rule inadvertently failed to revise two section
headings. This document makes those corrections.
DATES: This correction is effective December 27, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joshua Jackson, Aviation Safety
Inspector, Air Transportation Division, Flight Standards Service,
Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20591; telephone: 202-267-8166; email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#afc5c0dcc7dace81c5ceccc4dcc0c1efc9cece81c8c0d9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e983869a819c88c783888a829a8687a98f8888c78e869f">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 18, 2024, the FAA published a final
rule titled ``Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement.''
\1\ That final rule removed inconsistencies applicable to the
qualification requirements for check pilots and flight instructors in
domestic, flag, and supplemental operations and flight instructors in
commuter and on demand operations so that check pilots, check flight
engineers, and flight instructors can continue to perform their
functions in aircraft without a medical certificate unless they are
serving as required flightcrew members. It also removed the medical
certificate requirement for flight instructors in commuter and on-
demand operations who perform their functions in aircraft and are not
serving as required flightcrew members. This is the second set of
corrections. The first set of corrections was published in the Federal
Register on July 16, 2024 (89 FR 57729). This document augments the
previously published corrections.
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\1\ Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement final
rule, 89 FR 51416 (Jun. 18, 2024), corrected at 89 FR 57729 (Jul.
16, 2024).
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After publication of the final rule, the FAA determined that the
revisions to the section headings for Sec. Sec. 135.339 and
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135.340 had inadvertently not been made. The final rule intended to
revise the section heading for Sec. 135.339 by removing the obsolete
terminology ``check airmen (aircraft), check airmen (simulator)'' and
replacing them with ``check pilots.'' This would rename the heading to
that section from ``Sec. 135.339 Initial and transition training and
checking: Check airmen (aircraft), check airmen (simulator),'' to
``Sec. 135.339 Initial and transition training and checking: Check
pilots.'' Similarly, the section heading for Sec. 135.340 was also
intended to be revised by removing the obsolete terminology ``flight
instructors (aircraft)'' and ``flight instructors (simulator)'' and
replacing those terms with ``flight instructor. This would rename the
heading to that section from ``Sec. 135.340 Initial and transition
training and checking: Flight instructors (aircraft), flight
instructors (simulator)'' to ``Sec. 135.340 Initial and transition
training and checking: Flight instructors.'' However, the FAA failed to
include the instruction to revise the section heading in the amendatory
instructions for both sections. This document makes those corrections.
List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 135
Aircraft, Airmen, Aviation safety, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Accordingly, 14 CFR part 135 is corrected by making the following
correcting amendments:
PART 135--OPERATING REQUIREMENTS: COMMUTER AND ON DEMAND OPERATIONS
AND RULES GOVERNING PERSONS ON BOARD SUCH AIRCRAFT
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1. The authority citation for part 135 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 41706, 44701-44702, 44705,
44709, 44711-44713, 44715-44717, 44722, 44730, 45101-45105; Pub. L.
112-95, 126 Stat. 58 (49 U.S.C. 44730).
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2. Amend Sec. 135.339 by revising the section heading to read as
follows:
Sec. 135.339 Initial and transition training and checking: Check
pilots.
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3. Amend Sec. 135.340 by revising the section heading to read as
follows:
Sec. 135.340 Initial and transition training and checking: Flight
instructors.
Issued under authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 44701(a),
and 44703 in Washington, DC.
Brandon Roberts,
Executive Director, Office of Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 2024-30939 Filed 12-26-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-13-P
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