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§ 61.156 

(b) 

Aircraft type rating. 

A person who 

is applying for an additional aircraft 
type rating to be added to an airline 
transport pilot certificate is not re-
quired to pass a knowledge test if that 
person’s airline transport pilot certifi-
cate lists the aircraft category and 
class rating that is appropriate to the 
type rating sought. 

(c) 

Aeronautical knowledge areas. 

(1) 

Applicable Federal Aviation Regula-
tions of this chapter that relate to air-
line transport pilot privileges, limita-
tions, and flight operations; 

(2) Meteorology, including knowledge 

of and effects of fronts, frontal charac-
teristics, cloud formations, icing, and 
upper-air data; 

(3) General system of weather and 

NOTAM collection, dissemination, in-
terpretation, and use; 

(4) Interpretation and use of weather 

charts, maps, forecasts, sequence re-
ports, abbreviations, and symbols; 

(5) National Weather Service func-

tions as they pertain to operations in 
the National Airspace System; 

(6) Windshear and microburst aware-

ness, identification, and avoidance; 

(7) Principles of air navigation under 

instrument meteorological conditions 
in the National Airspace System; 

(8) Air traffic control procedures and 

pilot responsibilities as they relate to 
en route operations, terminal area and 
radar operations, and instrument de-
parture and approach procedures; 

(9) Aircraft loading, weight and bal-

ance, use of charts, graphs, tables, for-
mulas, and computations, and their ef-
fect on aircraft performance; 

(10) Aerodynamics relating to an air-

craft’s flight characteristics and per-
formance in normal and abnormal 
flight regimes; 

(11) Human factors; 
(12) Aeronautical decision making 

and judgment; 

(13) Crew resource management to in-

clude crew communication and coordi-
nation; and 

(14) After July 31, 2014, for airplane 

category multiengine class rating or 
airplane type rating, the content of the 
airline transport pilot certification 
training program in § 61.156. 

(d) An applicant who successfully 

completes the knowledge test for an 
airline transport pilot certificate prior 

to August 1, 2014, must successfully 
complete the practical test within 24 
months from the month in which the 
knowledge test was successfully com-
pleted. An applicant who passes the 
knowledge test prior to August 1, 2014, 
but fails to successfully complete the 
airplane category with a multiengine 
class rating practical test within 24 
months must complete the airline 
transport pilot certification training 
program specified in § 61.156 and retake 
the knowledge test prior to applying 
for the airplane category with a multi-
engine class rating practical test. 

[Doc. No. 25910, 62 FR 16298, Apr. 4, 1997, as 
amended by Amdt. 61–130, 78 FR 42374, July 
15, 2013; Docket FAA–2010–0100, Amdt. 61– 
130C, 81 FR 2, Jan. 4, 2016] 

§ 61.156

Training requirements: Air-

plane category—multiengine class 
rating or airplane type rating con-
currently with airline transport 
pilot certificate. 

After July 31, 2014, a person who ap-

plies for the knowledge test for an air-
line transport pilot certificate with an 
airplane category multiengine class 
rating must present a graduation cer-
tificate from an authorized training 
provider under part 121, 135, 141, or 142 
of this chapter certifying the applicant 
has completed the following training in 
a course approved by the Adminis-
trator. 

(a) 

Academic training. 

The applicant 

for the knowledge test must receive at 
least 30 hours of classroom instruction 
that includes the following: 

(1) At least 8 hours of instruction on 

aerodynamics including high altitude 
operations; 

(2) At least 2 hours of instruction on 

meteorology, including adverse weath-
er phenomena and weather detection 
systems; and 

(3) At least 14 hours of instruction on 

air carrier operations, including the 
following areas: 

(i) Physiology; 
(ii) Communications; 
(iii) Checklist philosophy; 
(iv) Operational control; 
(v) Minimum equipment list/configu-

ration deviation list; 

(vi) Ground operations; 
(vii) Turbine engines; 
(viii) Transport category aircraft 

performance; 

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