title-14-part-60-sec60-21

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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§ 60.23

(1) The aircraft manufacturer’s data,

which consists of at least predicted
data, validated by a limited set of
flight test data;

(2) The aircraft manufacturer’s de-

scription of the prediction method-
ology used to develop the predicted
data; and

(3) The QTG test results.
(b) An FSTD that has been issued in-

terim qualification is deemed to have
been issued initial qualification unless
the responsible Flight Standards office
rescinds the qualification. Interim
qualification terminates two years
after its issuance, unless the respon-
sible Flight Standards office deter-
mines that specific conditions warrant
otherwise.

lease of the final aircraft data package
by the aircraft manufacturer, but no
later than two years after the issuance
of the interim qualification status, the
sponsor must apply for initial quali-
fication in accordance with § 60.15 based
on the final aircraft data package ap-
proved by the aircraft manufacturer,
unless the responsible Flight Standards
office determines that specific condi-
tions warrant otherwise.

(d) An FSTD with interim qualifica-

tion may be modified only in accord-
ance with § 60.23.

[Docket No. FAA–2002–12461, 71 FR 63426, Oct.
30, 2006, as amended by Docket No. FAA–
2022–1355, Amdt. No. 60–7, 87 FR 75711, Dec. 9,
2022]

§ 60.23

Modifications to FSTDs.

(a)

Description of a modification. For

the purposes of this part, an FSTD is
said to have been modified when:

(1) Equipment or devices intended to

simulate aircraft appliances are added
to or removed from FSTD, which
change the Statement of Qualification
or the MQTG; or

(2) Changes are made to either soft-

ware or hardware that are intended to
impact flight or ground dynamics;
changes are made that impact perform-
ance or handling characteristics of the
FSTD (including motion, visual, con-
trol loading, or sound systems for
those FSTD levels requiring sound
tests and measurements); or changes
are made to the MQTG. Changes to the
MQTG which do not affect required ob-

jective testing results or validation
data approved during the initial eval-
uation of the FSTD are not considered
modifications under this section.

(b)

FSTD Directive. When the FAA de-

termines that FSTD modification is
necessary for safety of flight reasons,
the sponsor of each affected FSTD
must ensure that the FSTD is modified
according to the FSTD Directive re-
gardless of the original qualification
standards applicable to any specific
FSTD.

(c)

Using the modified FSTD. The spon-

sor may not use, or allow the use of, or
offer the use of, the FSTD with the
proposed modification for flight crew-
member training or evaluation or for
obtaining flight experience for the
flight crewmember to meet any re-
quirement of this chapter unless:

(1) The sponsor has notified the re-

sponsible Flight Standards office and
the TPAA of their intent to incor-
porate the proposed modification, and
one of the following has occurred;

(i) Twenty-one days have passed

since the sponsor notified the respon-
sible Flight Standards office and the
TPAA of the proposed modification and
the sponsor has not received any re-
sponse from either the responsible
Flight Standards office or the TPAA;

(ii) Twenty-one days have passed

since the sponsor notified the respon-
sible Flight Standards office and the
TPAA of the proposed modification and
one has approved the proposed modi-
fication and the other has not re-
sponded;

(iii) Fewer than twenty-one days

have passed since the sponsor notified
the responsible Flight Standards office
and the TPAA of the proposed modi-
fication and the responsible Flight
Standards office and TPAA both ap-
prove the proposed modification;

(iv) The sponsor has successfully

completed any evaluation the respon-
sible Flight Standards office may re-
quire in accordance with the standards
for an evaluation for initial qualifica-
tion or any part thereof before the
modified FSTD is placed in service.

(2) The notification is submitted with

the content as, and in a form and man-
ner as, specified in the applicable QPS.

(d)

User notification. When a modifica-

tion is made to an FSTD that affects