61.183 Eligibility requirements: General. 61.185 Aeronautical knowledge.

61.187 Flight proficiency.

61.189 Flight instructor records. 61.191 Additional flight instructor ratings. 61.193 Flight instructor authorizations. 61.195 Flight instructor limitations. 61.197 Renewal of flight instructor certificates.

61.199 Expired flight instructor certificates and ratings.

61.201 Conversion to new system of instructor ratings.

APPENDIX A-PRACTICAL TEST REQUIREMENTS

FOR AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT CERTIFI-
CATES AND ASSOCIATED CLASS AND TYPE RAT-
INGS

AUTHORITY: Secs. 313(a), 314, 601, 602, Federal Aviation Act of 1958, 49 U.S.C. 1354(a), 1355, 1421, 1422; sec. 6(c), Depart

ment of Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. 1655(2), unless otherwise noted.

SOURCE: Doc. No. 11802, Amdt. 61-60, 38 FR 3161, Feb. 1, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

Subpart A-General

§ 61.1 Applicability.

(a) This part prescribes the requirements for issuing pilot and flight instructor certificates and ratings, the conditions under which those certificates and ratings are necessary, and the privileges and limitations of those certificates and ratings.

(b) Except as provided in § 61.71 of this part, an applicant for a certificate or rating may, until November 1, 1974, meet either the requirements of this part, or the requirements in effect immediately before November 1, 1973. However, the applicant for a private pilot certificate with a free balloon class rating must meet the requirements of this part.

[Doc. No. 11802, Amdt. 61-60, 38 FR 3161, Feb. 1, 1973, as amended by Amdt. 61-63, 39 FR 20057, June 6, 1974)

§ 61.2 Certification of foreign pilots and flight instructors.

A person who is neither a United States citizen nor a resident alien is issued a certificate under this part (other than under § 61.75 or § 61.77), outside the United States, only when the Administrator finds that the pilot certificate is needed for the operation of a U.S.-registered civil aircraft or finds that the flight instructor certificate is needed for the training of students who are citizens of the United States.

(Secs. 313, 601, 602, Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1354, 1421, and 1422); sec. 6(c), Department of Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. 1655(c)); Title V, Independent Offices Appropriations Act of 1952 (31 U.S.C. 483(a)); sec. 28, International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979 (49 U.S.C. 1159(b)))

[Amdt. 61-72, 47 FR 35693, Aug. 16, 1982]

§ 61.3 Requirement for certificates, rating, and authorizations.

(a) Pilot certificate. No person may act as pilot in command or in any

other capacity as a required pilot flight crewmember of a civil aircraft of United States registry unless he has in his personal possession a current pilot certificate issued to him under this part. However, when the aircraft is operated within a foreign country a current pilot license issued by the country in which the aircraft is operated may be used.

(b) Pilot certificate: foreign aircraft. No person may, within the United States, act as pilot in command or in any other capacity as a required pilot flight crewmember of a civil aircraft of foreign registry unless he has in his personal possession a current pilot certificate issued to him under this part, or a pilot license issued to him or validated for him by the country in which the aircraft is registered.

(c) Medical certificate. Except for free balloon pilots piloting balloons and glider pilots piloting gliders, no person may act as pilot in command or in any other capacity as a required pilot flight crewmember of an aircraft under a certificate issued to him under this part, unless he has in his personal possession an appropriate current medical certificate issued under Part 67 of this chapter. However, when the aircraft is operated within a foreign country with a current pilot license issued by that country, evidence of current medical qualification for that license, issued by that country, may be used. In the case of a pilot certificate issued on the basis of a foreign pilot license under § 61.75, evidence of current medical qualification accepted for the issue of that license is used in place of a medical certificate. (d) Flight instructor Except for lighter-than-air flight instruction in lighter-than-air aircraft, and for instruction in air transportation service given by the holder of an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate under § 61.169, no person other than the holder of a flight instructor certificate issued by the Administrator with an appropriate rating on that certificate may

certificate.

(1) Give any of the flight instruction required to qualify for a solo flight, solo cross-country flight, or for the issue of a pilot or flight instructor certificate or rating;

(2) Endorse a pilot logbook to show that he has given any flight instruction; or

(3) Endorse a student pilot certificate or logbook for solo operating privileges.

(e) Instrument rating. No person may act as pilot in command of a civil aircraft under instrument flight rules, or in weather conditions less than the minimums prescribed for VFR flight unless

(1) In the case of an airplane, he holds an instrument rating or an airline transport pilot certificate with an airplane category rating on it;

(2) In the case of a helicopter, he holds a helicopter instrument rating or an airline transport pilot certificate with a rotorcraft category and helicopter class rating not limited to VFR;

(3) In the case of a glider, he holds an instrument rating (airplane) or an airline transport pilot certificate with an airplane category rating; or

(4) In the case of an airship, he holds a commercial pilot certificate with lighter-than-air category and airship class ratings.

(f) Category II pilot authorization. (1) No person may act as pilot in command of a civil aircraft in a Category II operation unless he holds a current Category II pilot authorization for that type aircraft or, in the case of a civil aircraft of foreign registry, he is authorized by the country of registry to act as pilot in command of that aircraft in Category II operations.

(2) No person may act as second in command of a civil aircraft in a Category II operation unless he holds a current appropriate instrument rating or an airline transport pilot certificate (airplane) or, in the case of a civil aircraft of foreign registry, he is authorized by the country of registry to act as second in command of that aircraft in Category II operations.

This paragraph does not apply to operations conducted by the holder of a certificate issued under Part 121 of this chapter.

(g) Category A aircraft pilot authorization. The Administrator may issue a certificate of authorization to the pilot of a small airplane identified as a Category A aircraft in § 97.3(b)(1) of this

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