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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–24 Edition) 

§ 135.331 

communication with Air Traffic Con-
trol, personnel performing flight locat-
ing and other operational functions, 
and passengers; 

(3) Building and maintenance of a 

flight team; 

(4) Workload and time management; 
(5) Situational awareness; 
(6) Effects of fatigue on performance, 

avoidance strategies and counter-
measures; 

(7) Effects of stress and stress reduc-

tion strategies; and 

(8) Aeronautical decision-making and 

judgment training tailored to the oper-
ator’s flight operations and aviation 
environment. 

(b) After March 22, 2013, no certifi-

cate holder may use a person as a 
flightcrew member or flight attendant 
unless that person has completed ap-
proved crew resource management ini-
tial training with that certificate hold-
er. 

(c) For flightcrew members and flight 

attendants, the Administrator, at his 
or her discretion, may credit crew re-
source management training com-
pleted with that certificate holder be-
fore March 22, 2013, toward all or part 
of the initial CRM training required by 
this section. 

(d) In granting credit for initial CRM 

training, the Administrator considers 
training aids, devices, methods and 
procedures used by the certificate hold-
er in a voluntary CRM program in-
cluded in a training program required 
by § 135.341, § 135.345, or § 135.349. 

[Doc. No. FAA–2009–0023, 76 FR 3837, Jan. 21, 
2011] 

§ 135.331 Crewmember emergency 

training. 

(a) Each training program must pro-

vide emergency training under this sec-
tion for each aircraft type, model, and 
configuration, each crewmember, and 
each kind of operation conducted, as 
appropriate for each crewmember and 
the certificate holder. 

(b) Emergency training must provide 

the following: 

(1) Instruction in emergency assign-

ments and procedures, including co-
ordination among crewmembers. 

(2) Individual instruction in the loca-

tion, function, and operation of emer-
gency equipment including— 

(i) Equipment used in ditching and 

evacuation; 

(ii) First aid equipment and its prop-

er use; and 

(iii) Portable fire extinguishers, with 

emphasis on the type of extinguisher to 
be used on different classes of fires. 

(3) Instruction in the handling of 

emergency situations including— 

(i) Rapid decompression; 
(ii) Fire in flight or on the surface 

and smoke control procedures with em-
phasis on electrical equipment and re-
lated circuit breakers found in cabin 
areas; 

(iii) Ditching and evacuation; 
(iv) Illness, injury, or other abnormal 

situations involving passengers or 
crewmembers; and 

(v) Hijacking and other unusual situ-

ations. 

(4) Review of the certificate holder’s 

previous aircraft accidents and inci-
dents involving actual emergency situ-
ations. 

(c) Each crewmember must perform 

at least the following emergency drills, 
using the proper emergency equipment 
and procedures, unless the Adminis-
trator finds that, for a particular drill, 
the crewmember can be adequately 
trained by demonstration: 

(1) Ditching, if applicable. 
(2) Emergency evacuation. 
(3) Fire extinguishing and smoke con-

trol. 

(4) Operation and use of emergency 

exits, including deployment and use of 
evacuation chutes, if applicable. 

(5) Use of crew and passenger oxygen. 
(6) Removal of life rafts from the air-

craft, inflation of the life rafts, use of 
life lines, and boarding of passengers 
and crew, if applicable. 

(7) Donning and inflation of life vests 

and the use of other individual flota-
tion devices, if applicable. 

(d) Crewmembers who serve in oper-

ations above 25,000 feet must receive 
instruction in the following: 

(1) Respiration. 
(2) Hypoxia. 
(3) Duration of consciousness without 

supplemental oxygen at altitude. 

(4) Gas expansion. 
(5) Gas bubble formation. 
(6) Physical phenomena and incidents 

of decompression.