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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 121.434 

Flight attendants receiving operating 
experience may not be assigned as a re-
quired crewmember. Flight attendants 
who have satisfactorily completed 
training time acquired in an approved 
training program conducted in a full- 
scale (except for length) cabin training 
device of the type airplane in which 
they are to serve may substitute this 
time for 50 percent of the hours re-
quired by this paragraph. 

(f) Flight crewmembers may sub-

stitute one additional takeoff and land-
ing for each hour of flight to meet the 
operating experience requirements of 
this section, up to a maximum reduc-
tion of 50% of flight hours, except 
those in Group II initial training, and 
second in command pilots in Group II 
transition training. 

(g) Except as provided in paragraph 

(h) of this section, pilot in command 
and second in command crewmembers 
must each acquire at least 100 hours of 
line operating flight time for consoli-
dation of knowledge and skills (includ-
ing operating experience required 
under paragraph (c) of this section) 
within 120 days after the satisfactory 
completion of: 

(1) Any part of the flight maneuvers 

and procedures portion of either an air-
line transport pilot certificate with 
type rating practical test or an addi-
tional type rating practical test, or 

(2) A § 121.441 proficiency check. 
(h) The following exceptions apply to 

the consolidation requirement of para-
graph (g) of this section: 

(1) Pilots who have qualified and 

served as pilot in command or second 
in command on a particular type air-
plane in operations under this part be-
fore August 25, 1995 are not required to 
complete line operating flight time for 
consolidation of knowledge and skills. 

(2) Pilots who have completed the 

line operating flight time requirement 
for consolidation of knowledge and 
skills while serving as second in com-
mand on a particular type airplane in 
operations under this part after August 
25, 1995 are not required to repeat the 
line operating flight time before serv-
ing as pilot in command on the same 
type airplane. 

(3) If, before completing the required 

100 hours of line operating flight time, 
a pilot serves as a pilot in another air-

plane type operated by the certificate 
holder, the pilot may not serve as a 
pilot in the airplane for which the pilot 
has newly qualified unless the pilot 
satifactorily completes refresher train-
ing as provided in the certificate hold-
er’s approved training program and 
that training is conducted by an appro-
priately qualified instructor or check 
pilot. 

(4) If the required 100 hours of line 

operating flight time are not com-
pleted within 120 days, the certificate 
holder may extend the 120-day period 
to no more than 150 days if— 

(i) The pilot continues to meet all 

other applicable requirements of sub-
part O of this part; and 

(ii) On or before the 120th day the 

pilot satisfactorily completes refresher 
training conducted by an appropriately 
qualified instructor or check pilot as 
provided in the certificate holder’s ap-
proved training program, or a check 
pilot determines that the pilot has re-
tained an adequate level of proficiency 
after observing that pilot in a super-
vised line operating flight. 

(5) The Administrator, upon applica-

tion by the certificate holder, may au-
thorize deviations from the require-
ments of paragraph (g) of this section, 
by an appropriate amendment to the 
operations specifications, to the extent 
warranted by any of the following cir-
cumstances: 

(i) A newly certificated certificate 

holder does not employ any pilots who 
meet the minimum requirements of 
paragraph (g) of this section. 

(ii) An existing certificate holder 

adds to its fleet an airplane type not 
before proven for use in its operations. 

(iii) A certificate holder establishes a 

new domicile to which it assigns pilots 
who will be required to become quali-
fied on the airplanes operated from 
that domicile. 

(i) Notwithstanding the reductions in 

programmed hours permitted under 
§§ 121.405 and 121.409 of subpart N of this 
part, the hours of operating experience 
for crewmembers are not subject to re-
duction other than as provided in ac-
cordance with a deviation authorized 
under paragraph (a) of this section or 

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