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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–19 Edition) 

§ 125.289 

of pilot authorization, including, when 
applicable, instrument approach facili-
ties and procedures; 

(5) Air traffic control procedures, in-

cluding IFR procedures when applica-
ble; 

(6) Meteorology in general, including 

the principles of frontal systems, icing, 
fog, thunderstorms, and windshear, 
and, if appropriate for the operation of 
the certificate holder, high altitude 
weather; 

(7) Procedures for avoiding oper-

ations in thunderstorms and hail, and 
for operating in turbulent air or in 
icing conditions; 

(8) New equipment, procedures, or 

techniques, as appropriate; 

(9) Knowledge and procedures for op-

erating during ground icing conditions, 
(i.e., any time conditions are such that 
frost, ice, or snow may reasonably be 
expected to adhere to the airplane), if 
the certificate holder expects to au-
thorize takeoffs in ground icing condi-
tions, including: 

(i) The use of holdover times when 

using deicing/anti-icing fluids. 

(ii) Airplane deicing/anti-icing proce-

dures, including inspection and check 
procedures and responsibilities. 

(iii) Communications. 
(iv) Airplane surface contamination 

(i.e., adherence of frost, ice, or snow) 
and critical area identification, and 
knowledge of how contamination ad-
versely affects airplane performance 
and flight characteristics. 

(v) Types and characteristics of deic-

ing/anti-icing fluids, if used by the cer-
tificate holder. 

(vi) Cold weather preflight inspection 

procedures. 

(vii) Techniques for recognizing con-

tamination on the airplane. 

(b) No certificate holder may use any 

person, nor may any person serve, as a 
pilot in any airplane unless, since the 
beginning of the 12th calendar month 
before that service, that person has 
passed a competency check given by 
the Administrator or an authorized 
check airman in that type of airplane 
to determine that person’s competence 
in practical skills and techniques in 
that airplane or type of airplane. The 
extent of the competency check shall 
be determined by the Administrator or 
authorized check airman conducting 

the competency check. The com-
petency check may include any of the 
maneuvers and procedures currently 
required for the original issuance of 
the particular pilot certificate required 
for the operations authorized and ap-
propriate to the category, class, and 
type of airplane involved. For the pur-
poses of this paragraph, type, as to an 
airplane, means any one of a group of 
airplanes determined by the Adminis-
trator to have a similar means of pro-
pulsion, the same manufacturer, and 
no significantly different handling or 
flight characteristics. 

(c) The instrument proficiency check 

required by § 125.291 may be substituted 
for the competency check required by 
this section for the type of airplane 
used in the check. 

(d) For the purposes of this part, 

competent performance of a procedure 
or maneuver by a person to be used as 
a pilot requires that the pilot be the 
obvious master of the airplane with the 
successful outcome of the maneuver 
never in doubt. 

(e) The Administrator or authorized 

check airman certifies the competency 
of each pilot who passes the knowledge 
or flight check in the certificate hold-
er’s pilot records. 

(f) Portions of a required competency 

check may be given in an airplane sim-
ulator or other appropriate training de-
vice, if approved by the Administrator. 

(g) If the certificate holder is author-

ized to conduct EFVS operations, the 
competency check in paragraph (b) of 
this section must include tasks appro-
priate to the EFVS operations the cer-
tificate holder is authorized to con-
duct. 

[45 FR 67235, Oct. 9, 1980, as amended by 
Amdt. 125–18, 58 FR 69629, Dec. 30, 1993; Dock-
et FAA–2013–0485, Amdt. 125–66, 81 FR 90176, 
Dec. 13, 2016] 

§ 125.289

Initial and recurrent flight 

attendant crewmember testing re-
quirements. 

No certificate holder may use any 

person, nor may any person serve, as a 
flight attendant crewmember, unless, 
since the beginning of the 12th cal-
endar month before that service, the 
certificate holder has determined by 
appropriate initial and recurrent test-
ing that the person is knowledgeable 

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