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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

Pt. 60, App. C 

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60— 

FSTD DIRECTIVES APPLICABLE TO 
HELICOPTER FFS

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FSTD Directive 1. Applicable to all FFSs, 

regardless of the original qualification basis 
and qualification date (original or upgrade), 
having Class II or Class III airport models 
available. 

Agency: 

Federal Aviation Administration 

(FAA), DOT 

Action: 

This is a retroactive requirement to 

have all Class II or Class III airport models 
meet current requirements. 

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Summary: 

Notwithstanding the authoriza 

tion listed in paragraph 13b in Appendices A 
and C of this part, this FSTD Directive re-
quires each certificate holder to ensure that 
by May 30, 2009, except for the airport 
model(s) used to qualify the simulator at the 
designated level, each airport model used by 
the certificate holder’s instructors or eval-
uators for training, checking, or testing 
under this chapter in an FFS, meets the defi-
nition of a Class II or Class III airport model 
as defined in 14CFR part 60. The completion 
of this requirement will not require a report, 
and the method used for keeping instructors 
and evaluators apprised of the airport mod-
els that meet Class II or Class III require-
ments on any given simulator is at the op-

tion of the certificate holder whose employ-
ees are using the FFS, but the method used 
must be available for review by the TPAA 
for that certificate holder. 

Dates: 

FSTD Directive 1 becomes effective 

on May 30, 2008. 

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PECIFIC

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EQUIREMENTS

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1. Part 60 requires that each FSTD be: 
a. Sponsored by a person holding or apply-

ing for an FAA operating certificate under 
Part 119, Part 141, or Part 142, or holding or 
applying for an FAA-approved training pro-
gram under Part 63, Appendix C, for flight 
engineers, and 

b. Evaluated and issued an SOQ for a spe-

cific FSTD level. 

2. FFSs also require the installation of a 

visual system that is capable of providing an 
out-of-the-flight-deck view of airport mod-
els. However, historically these airport mod-
els were not routinely evaluated or required 
to meet any standardized criteria. This has 
led to qualified simulators containing air-
port models being used to meet FAA-ap-
proved training, testing, or checking require-
ments with potentially incorrect or inappro-
priate visual references. 

3. To prevent this from occurring in the fu-

ture, by May 30, 2009, except for the airport 
model(s) used to qualify the simulator at the 
designated level, each certificate holder 
must assure that each airport model used for 
training, testing, or checking under this 

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