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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 91.1089 

(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 and discussion of previous 

aircraft accidents and incidents involv-
ing actual emergency situations. 

(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 slides, 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 
lifelines, 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. 

§ 91.1085

Hazardous materials recogni-

tion training. 

No program manager may use any 

person to perform, and no person may 
perform, any assigned duties and re-
sponsibilities for the handling or car-
riage of hazardous materials (as de-
fined in 49 CFR 171.8), unless that per-
son has received training in the rec-
ognition of hazardous materials. 

§ 91.1087

Approval of aircraft simula-

tors and other training devices. 

(a) Training courses using aircraft 

simulators and other training devices 
may be included in the program man-

ager’s training program if approved by 
the Administrator. 

(b) Each aircraft simulator and other 

training device that is used in a train-
ing course or in checks required under 
this subpart must meet the following 
requirements: 

(1) It must be specifically approved 

for— 

(i) The program manager; and 
(ii) The particular maneuver, proce-

dure, or crewmember function in-
volved. 

(2) It must maintain the perform-

ance, functional, and other characteris-
tics that are required for approval. 

(3) Additionally, for aircraft simula-

tors, it must be— 

(i) Approved for the type aircraft 

and, if applicable, the particular vari-
ation within type for which the train-
ing or check is being conducted; and 

(ii) Modified to conform with any 

modification to the aircraft being sim-
ulated that changes the performance, 
functional, or other characteristics re-
quired for approval. 

(c) A particular aircraft simulator or 

other training device may be used by 
more than one program manager. 

(d) In granting initial and final ap-

proval of training programs or revi-
sions to them, the Administrator con-
siders the training devices, methods, 
and procedures listed in the program 
manager’s curriculum under § 91.1079. 

§ 91.1089

Qualifications: Check pilots 

(aircraft) and check pilots (simu-
lator). 

(a) For the purposes of this section 

and § 91.1093: 

(1) A check pilot (aircraft) is a person 

who is qualified to conduct flight 
checks in an aircraft, in a flight simu-
lator, or in a flight training device for 
a particular type aircraft. 

(2) A check pilot (simulator) is a per-

son who is qualified to conduct flight 
checks, but only in a flight simulator, 
in a flight training device, or both, for 
a particular type aircraft. 

(3) Check pilots (aircraft) and check 

pilots (simulator) are those check pi-
lots who perform the functions de-
scribed in § 91.1073(a)(4) and (c). 

(b) No program manager may use a 

person, nor may any person serve as a 

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