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§ 141.51
is so located that the students in that
facility are not distracted by the train-
ing conducted in other rooms, or by
flight and maintenance operations on
the airport.
(c) If a training course is conducted
through an internet-based medium, the
holder of a pilot school certificate or
provisional pilot school certificate that
provides such training need not comply
with paragraphs (a) and (b) of this sec-
tion but must maintain in current sta-
tus a permanent business location and
business telephone number.
[Doc. No. FAA–2008–0938, 76 FR 54107, Aug. 31,
2011]
Subpart C—Training Course
Outline and Curriculum
§ 141.51 Applicability.
This subpart prescribes the cur-
riculum and course outline require-
ments for the issuance of a pilot school
certificate or provisional pilot school
certificate and ratings.
§ 141.53 Approval procedures for a
training course: General.
(a)
General.
An applicant for a pilot
school certificate or provisional pilot
school certificate must obtain the Ad-
ministrator’s approval of the outline of
each training course for which certifi-
cation and rating is sought.
(b)
Application.
(1) An application for
the approval of an initial or amended
training course must be submitted in
duplicate to the responsible Flight
Standards office for the area where the
school is based.
(2) An application for the approval of
an initial or amended training course
must be submitted at least 30 days be-
fore any training under that course, or
any amendment thereto, is scheduled
to begin.
(3) An application for amending a
training course must be accompanied
by two copies of the amendment.
(c)
Training courses.
An applicant for
a pilot school certificate or provisional
pilot school certificate may request ap-
proval for the training courses speci-
fied under § 141.11(b).
(d)
Additional rules for internet based
training courses.
An application for an
initial or amended training course of-
fered through an internet based me-
dium must comply with the following:
(1) All amendments must be identi-
fied numerically by page, date, and
screen. Minor editorial and typo-
graphical changes do not require FAA
approval, provided the school notifies
the FAA within 30 days of their inser-
tion.
(2) For monitoring purposes, the
school must provide the FAA an ac-
ceptable means to log-in and log-off
from a remote location to review all
elements of the course as viewed by
attendees and to by-pass the normal
attendee restrictions.
(3) The school must incorporate ade-
quate security measures into its inter-
net-based courseware information sys-
tem and into its operating and mainte-
nance procedures to ensure the fol-
lowing fundamental areas of security
and protection:
(i) Integrity.
(ii) Identification/Authentication.
(iii) Confidentiality.
(iv) Availability.
(v) Access control.
[Doc. No. 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997;
Amdt. 141–9, 62 FR 40908, July 30, 1997; Amdt.
141–12, 74 FR 42563, Aug. 21, 2009; Amdt. 141–
15, 76 FR 54107, Aug. 31, 2011, as amended by
Docket FAA–2018–0119, Amdt. 141–19, 83 FR
9175, Mar. 5, 2018]
§ 141.55 Training course: Contents.
(a) Each training course for which
approval is requested must meet the
minimum curriculum requirements in
accordance with the appropriate appen-
dix of this part.
(b) Except as provided in paragraphs
(d) and (e) of this section, each training
course for which approval is requested
must meet the minimum ground and
flight training time requirements in
accordance with the appropriate appen-
dix of this part.
(c) Each training course for which ap-
proval is requested must contain:
(1) A description of each room used
for ground training, including the
room’s size and the maximum number
of students that may be trained in the
room at one time, unless the course is
provided via an internet-based training
medium;
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(2) A description of each type of
audiovisual aid, projector, tape re-
corder, mockup, chart, aircraft compo-
nent, and other special training aids
used for ground training;
(3) A description of each flight simu-
lator or flight training device used for
training;
(4) A listing of the airports at which
training flights originate and a descrip-
tion of the facilities, including pilot
briefing areas that are available for use
by the school’s students and personnel
at each of those airports;
(5) A description of the type of air-
craft including any special equipment
used for each phase of training;
(6) The minimum qualifications and
ratings for each instructor assigned to
ground or flight training; and
(7) A training syllabus that includes
the following information—
(i) The prerequisites for enrolling in
the ground and flight portion of the
course that include the pilot certifi-
cate and rating (if required by this
part), training, pilot experience, and
pilot knowledge;
(ii) A detailed description of each les-
son, including the lesson’s objectives,
standards, and planned time for com-
pletion;
(iii) A description of what the course
is expected to accomplish with regard
to student learning;
(iv) The expected accomplishments
and the standards for each stage of
training; and
(v) A description of the checks and
tests to be used to measure a student’s
accomplishments for each stage of
training.
(d) A pilot school may request and re-
ceive initial approval for a period of
not more than 24 calendar months for
any training course under this part
that does not meet the minimum
ground and flight training time re-
quirements, provided the following pro-
visions are met:
(1) The school holds a pilot school
certificate issued under this part and
has held that certificate for a period of
at least 24 consecutive calendar
months preceding the month of the re-
quest;
(2) In addition to the information re-
quired by paragraph (c) of this section,
the training course specifies planned
ground and flight training time re-
quirements for the course;
(3) The school does not request the
training course to be approved for ex-
amining authority, nor may that
school hold examining authority for
that course; and
(4) The practical test or knowledge
test for the course is to be given by—
(i) An FAA inspector; or
(ii) An examiner who is not an em-
ployee of the school.
(e) A pilot school may request and re-
ceive final approval for any training
course under this part that does not
meet the minimum ground and flight
training time requirements, provided
the following conditions are met:
(1) The school has held initial ap-
proval for that training course for at
least 24 calendar months.
(2) The school has—
(i) Trained at least 10 students in
that training course within the pre-
ceding 24 calendar months and rec-
ommended those students for a pilot,
flight instructor, or ground instructor
certificate or rating; and
(ii) At least 80 percent of those stu-
dents passed the practical or knowl-
edge test, as appropriate, on the first
attempt, and that test was given by—
(A) An FAA inspector; or
(B) An examiner who is not an em-
ployee of the school.
(3) In addition to the information re-
quired by paragraph (c) of this section,
the training course specifies planned
ground and flight training time re-
quirements for the course.
(4) The school does not request that
the training course be approved for ex-
amining authority nor may that school
hold examining authority for that
course.
[Doc. No. 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997, as
amended by Amdt. 141–12, 74 FR 42563, Aug.
21, 2009; Amdt. 141–15, 76 FR 54107, Aug. 31,
2011]
§ 141.57 Special curricula.
An applicant for a pilot school cer-
tificate or provisional pilot school cer-
tificate may apply for approval to con-
duct a special course of airman train-
ing for which a curriculum is not pre-
scribed in the appendixes of this part,
if the applicant shows that the training
course contains features that could