Section 121.401

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which may be reduced by the Administrator upon a showing by the certificate holder that circumstances justify
a lesser amount.
(6) Inflight. Refers to maneuvers, procedures, or functions that must be conducted in the airplane.
(7) Training center. An organization
governed by the applicable requirements of part 142 of this chapter that
provides training, testing, and checking under contract or other arrangement to certificate holders subject to
the requirements of this part.
(8) Requalification training. The training required for crewmembers previously trained and qualified, but who
have become unqualified due to not
having met within the required period
the recurrent training requirements of
Section 121.427 or the proficiency check requirements of Section 121.441.
(9) Related aircraft. Any two or more
aircraft of the same make with either
the same or different type certificates
that have been demonstrated and determined by the Administrator to have
commonality to the extent that credit
between those aircraft may be applied
for flightcrew member training, checking, recent experience, operating experience, operating cycles, and line operating flight time for consolidation of
knowledge and skills.
(10) Related aircraft differences training. The flightcrew member training
required for aircraft with different type
certificates that have been designated
as related by the Administrator.
(11) Base aircraft. An aircraft identified by a certificate holder for use as a
reference to compare differences with
another aircraft.
[Doc. No. 9509, 35 FR 90, Jan. 3, 1970; 35 FR
2819, Feb. 11, 1970, as amended by Amdt. 121-
104, 38 FR 14915, June 7, 1973; Amdt. 121-259,
61 FR 34560, July 2, 1996; Amdt. 121-366, 78 FR
67836, Nov. 12, 2013]

Section 121.401 Training program: General.
(a) Each certificate holder shall:
(1) Establish and implement a training program that satisfies the requirements of this subpart and appendices E
and F of this part and that ensures
that each crewmember, aircraft dispatcher, flight instructor and check
airman is adequately trained to perform his or her assigned duties. Prior

to implementation, the certificate
holder must obtain initial and final
FAA approval of the training program.
(2) Provide adequate ground and
flight training facilities and properly
qualified ground instructors for the
training required by this subpart;
(3) Provide and keep current with respect to each airplane type and, if applicable, the particular variations
within that airplane type, appropriate
training
material,
examinations,
forms, instructions, and procedures for
use in conducting the training and
checks required by this part; and
(4) Provide enough flight instructors,
simulator instructors, and approved
check airmen to conduct required
flight training and flight checks, and
simulator training courses permitted
under this part.
(b) Whenever a crewmember or aircraft dispatcher who is required to
take recurrent training, a flight check,
or a competence check, takes the
check or completes the training in the
calendar month before or after the calendar month in which that training or
check is required, he is considered to
have taken or completed it in the calendar month in which it was required.
(c) Each instructor, supervisor, or
check airman who is responsible for a
particular ground training subject, segment of flight training, course of training, flight check, or competence check
under this part shall certify as to the
proficiency and knowledge of the crewmember, aircraft dispatcher, flight instructor, or check airman concerned
upon completion of that training or
check. That certification shall be made
a part of the crewmember-s or dispatcher-s record. When the certification required by this paragraph is
made by an entry in a computerized
recordkeeping system, the certifying
instructor, supervisor, or check airman
must be identified with that entry.
However, the signature of the certifying instructor, supervisor, or check
airman is not required for computerized entries.
(d) Training subjects that are applicable to more than one airplane or
crewmember position and that have
been satisfactorily completed in connection with prior training for another

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