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Removal of Expiration Date on a Flight Instructor Certificate; Additional Qualification Requirements To Train Initial Flight Instructor Applicants; and Other Provisions
The Federal Aviation Administration published this final rule in the Federal Register on October 1, 2024. It took effect on December 1, 2024.
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What the agency says
This action removes the expiration date on flight instructor certificates to align with other airman certificates. Additional amendments include updating renewal requirements to recent experience requirements, introducing a new method for establishing recent flight instructor experience, and allowing instructors with a lapse of no more than three months to reinstate privileges via an approved flight instructor refresher course instead of a practical test. This final rule also adds two new methods for flight instructors to qualify to train initial applicants. Finally, this final rule relocates and codifies the requirements for relief for U.S. military and civilian personnel who seek to renew their expired flight instructor certificate.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-22018
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Transportation Department; Federal Aviation Administration
- Published
- October 1, 2024
- Takes effect
- December 1, 2024
- Dates
- This final rule is effective December 1, 2024, except that amendatory instruction 10 is effective March 1, 2027.
- Docket
- Docket No. FAA-2023-0825; Amdt. Nos. 11-67, 61-155, 63-47, 65-65, and 141-25
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2120-AL25
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 14 CFR 11; 14 CFR 61; 14 CFR 63; 14 CFR 65; 14 CFR 141
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Aircraft; Airmen; Aviation safety; Educational facilities; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Schools; Teachers
- Pages
- 35
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