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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 60.21 

(1) Accomplishes all appropriate ob-

jective tests each year as specified in 
the applicable QPS. 

(2) Completes a functional preflight 

check within the preceding 24 hours. 

(b) 

Continuing qualification evaluation. 

(1) This evaluation consists of objec-
tive tests, and subjective tests, includ-
ing general FSTD requirements, as de-
scribed in the applicable QPS or as 
may be amended by an FSTD Direc-
tive. 

(2) The sponsor must contact the re-

sponsible Flight Standards office to 
schedule the FSTD for continuing qual-
ification evaluations not later than 60 
days before the evaluation is due. 

(3) The sponsor must provide the re-

sponsible Flight Standards office re-
sponsible Flight Standards office ac-
cess to the objective test results in the 
MQTG and access to the FSTD for the 
length of time necessary for the re-
sponsible Flight Standards office to 
complete the required continuing qual-
ification evaluations. 

(4) The frequency of the responsible 

Flight Standards office-conducted con-
tinuing qualification evaluations for 
each FSTD will be established by the 
responsible Flight Standards office and 
specified in the Statement of Qualifica-
tion. 

(5) Continuing qualification evalua-

tions conducted in the 3 calendar 
months before or after the calendar 
month in which these continuing quali-
fication evaluations are required will 
be considered to have been conducted 
in the calendar month in which they 
were required. 

(6) No sponsor may use or allow the 

use of or offer the use of an FSTD for 
flight crewmember training or evalua-
tion or for obtaining flight experience 
for the flight crewmember to meet any 
requirement of this chapter unless the 
FSTD has passed a responsible Flight 
Standards office-conducted continuing 
qualification evaluation within the 
time frame specified in the Statement 
of Qualification or within the grace pe-
riod as described in paragraph (b)(5) of 
this section. 

(c) 

Maintenance.  The sponsor is re-

sponsible for continuing corrective and 
preventive maintenance on the FSTD 
to ensure that it continues to meet the 
requirements of this part and the appli-

cable QPS appendix. No sponsor may 
use or allow the use of or offer the use 
of an FSTD for flight crewmember 
training, evaluation, or flight experi-
ence to meet any of the requirements 
of this chapter unless the sponsor does 
the following: 

(1) Maintains a discrepancy log. 
(2) Ensures that, when a discrepancy 

is discovered, the following require-
ments are met: 

(i) A description of each discrepancy 

is entered in the log and remains in the 
log until the discrepancy is corrected 
as specified in § 60.25(b). 

(ii) A description of the corrective 

action taken for each discrepancy, the 
identity of the individual taking the 
action, and the date that action is 
taken is entered in the log. 

(iii) The discrepancy log is kept in a 

form and manner acceptable to the Ad-
ministrator and is kept in or adjacent 
to the FSTD. An electronic log that 
may be accessed by an appropriate ter-
minal or display in or adjacent to the 
FSTD is satisfactory. 

[Docket No. FAA–2002–12461, 71 FR 63426, Oct. 
30, 2006, as amended by Docket FAA–2014– 
0391, Amdt. 60–4, 81 FR 18218, Mar. 30, 2016; 
Docket No. FAA–2022–1355, Amdt. No. 60–7, 87 
FR 75711, Dec. 9, 2022] 

§ 60.20

Logging FSTD discrepancies. 

Each instructor, check airman, or 

representative of the Administrator 
conducting training, evaluation, or 
flight experience, and each person con-
ducting the preflight inspection who 
discovers a discrepancy, including any 
missing, malfunctioning, or inoper-
ative components in the FSTD, must 
write or cause to be written a descrip-
tion of that discrepancy into the dis-
crepancy log at the end of the FSTD 
preflight or FSTD use session. 

§ 60.21

Interim qualification of FSTDs 

for new aircraft types or models. 

(a) A sponsor may apply for and the 

responsible Flight Standards office 
may issue an interim qualification 
level for an FSTD for a new type or 
model of aircraft, even though the air-
craft manufacturer’s aircraft data 
package is preliminary, if the sponsor 
provides the following to the satisfac-
tion of the responsible Flight Stand-
ards office— 

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