Section 121.917

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cycle to a maximum of 36 calendar
months in duration.
(e) Requalification. Each continuing
qualification curriculum must include
a curriculum segment that covers the
requirements for requalifying a crewmember, aircraft dispatcher, other operations personnel, instructor, or evaluator who has not maintained continuing qualification.
Section 121.917

Other requirements.

In addition to the requirements of
SectionSection 121.913 and 121.915, each AQP qualification and continuing qualification
curriculum must include the following
requirements:
(a) Integrated Crew Resource Management (CRM) or Dispatcher Resource
Management (DRM) ground and if appropriate flight training applicable to
each position for which training is provided under an AQP.
(b) Approved training on and evaluation of skills and proficiency of each
person being trained under AQP to use
his or her resource management skills
and his or her technical (piloting or
other) skills in an actual or simulated
operations scenario. For flight crewmembers this training and evaluation
must be conducted in an approved
flight training device, flight simulator,
or, if approved under this subpart, in
an aircraft.
(c) Data collection and analysis processes acceptable to the FAA that will
ensure the certificate holder provides
performance information on its crewmembers,
dispatchers,
instructors,
evaluators, and other operations personnel that will enable the certificate
holder and the FAA to determine
whether the form and content of training and evaluation activities are satisfactorily accomplishing the overall objectives of the curriculum.
Section 121.919

Certification.

A person subject to an AQP is eligible to receive a commercial or airline
transport pilot, flight engineer, or aircraft dispatcher certificate or appropriate rating based on the successful
completion of training and evaluation
events accomplished under that program if the following requirements are
met:

(a) Training and evaluation of required knowledge and skills under the
AQP must meet minimum certification
and rating criteria established by the
FAA in parts 61, 63, or 65 of this chapter. The FAA may approve alternatives
to the certification and rating criteria
of parts 61, 63, or 65 of this chapter, including practical test requirements, if
it can be demonstrated that the newly
established criteria or requirements
represent an equivalent or better measure of crewmember or dispatcher competence, operational proficiency, and
safety.
(b) The applicant satisfactorily completes the appropriate qualification
curriculum.
(c) The applicant shows competence
in required technical knowledge and
skills (e.g., piloting or other) and crew
resource management (e.g., CRM or
DRM) knowledge and skills in scenarios (i.e., LOE) that test both types
of knowledge and skills together.
(d) The applicant is otherwise eligible under the applicable requirements
of part 61, 63, or 65 of this chapter.
(e) The applicant has been trained to
proficiency on the certificate holder-s
approved AQP Qualification Standards
as witnessed by an instructor, check
airman, or APD and has passed an LOE
administered by an APD or the FAA.
Section 121.921 Training devices and simulators.
(a) Each flight training device or airplane simulator that will be used in an
AQP for one of the following purposes
must be evaluated by the FAA for assignment of a flight training device or
flight simulator qualification level:
(1) Required evaluation of individual
or crew proficiency.
(2) Training to proficiency or training activities that determine if an individual or crew is ready for an evaluation of proficiency.
(3) Activities used to meet recency of
experience requirements.
(4) Line Operational Simulations
(LOS).
(b) Approval of other training equipment.
(1) Any training equipment that is
intended to be used in an AQP for purposes other than those set forth in
paragraph (a) of this section must be

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