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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 125.291 

and competent in the following areas 
as appropriate to assigned duties and 
responsibilities: 

(a) Authority of the pilot in com-

mand; 

(b) Passenger handling, including 

procedures to be followed in handling 
deranged persons or other persons 
whose conduct might jeopardize safety; 

(c) Crewmember assignments, func-

tions, and responsibilities during ditch-
ing and evacuation of persons who may 
need the assistance of another person 
to move expeditiously to an exit in an 
emergency; 

(d) Briefing of passengers; 
(e) Location and operation of port-

able fire extinguishers and other items 
of emergency equipment; 

(f) Proper use of cabin equipment and 

controls; 

(g) Location and operation of pas-

senger oxygen equipment; 

(h) Location and operation of all nor-

mal and emergency exits, including 
evacuation chutes and escape ropes; 
and 

(i) Seating of persons who may need 

assistance of another person to move 
rapidly to an exit in an emergency as 
prescribed by the certificate holder’s 
operations manual. 

§ 125.291

Pilot in command: Instru-

ment proficiency check require-
ments. 

(a) No certificate holder may use any 

person, nor may any person serve, as a 
pilot in command of an airplane under 
IFR unless, since the beginning of the 
sixth calendar month before that serv-
ice, that person has passed an instru-
ment proficiency check and the Admin-
istrator or an authorized check airman 
has so certified in a letter of com-
petency. 

(b) No pilot may use any type of pre-

cision instrument approach procedure 
under IFR unless, since the beginning 
of the sixth calendar month before that 
use, the pilot has satisfactorily dem-
onstrated that type of approach proce-
dure and has been issued a letter of 
competency under paragraph (g) of this 
section. No pilot may use any type of 
nonprecision approach procedure under 
IFR unless, since the beginning of the 
sixth calendar month before that use, 
the pilot has satisfactorily dem-

onstrated either that type of approach 
procedure or any other two different 
types of nonprecision approach proce-
dures and has been issued a letter of 
competency under paragraph (g) of this 
section. The instrument approach pro-
cedure or procedures must include at 
least one straight-in approach, one cir-
cling approach, and one missed ap-
proach. Each type of approach proce-
dure demonstrated must be conducted 
to published minimums for that proce-
dure. 

(c) The instrument proficiency check 

required by paragraph (a) of this sec-
tion consists of an oral or written 
equipment test and a flight check 
under simulated or actual IFR condi-
tions. The equipment test includes 
questions on emergency procedures, en-
gine operation, fuel and lubrication 
systems, power settings, stall speeds, 
best engine-out speed, propeller and su-
percharge operations, and hydraulic, 
mechanical, and electrical systems, as 
appropriate. The flight check includes 
navigation by instruments, recovery 
from simulated emergencies, and 
standard instrument approaches in-
volving navigational facilities which 
that pilot is to be authorized to use. 

(1) For a pilot in command of an air-

plane, the instrument proficiency 
check must include the procedures and 
maneuvers for a commercial pilot cer-
tificate with an instrument rating and, 
if required, for the appropriate type 
rating. 

(2) The instrument proficiency check 

must be given by an authorized check 
airman or by the Administrator. 

(d) If the pilot in command is as-

signed to pilot only one type of air-
plane, that pilot must take the instru-
ment proficiency check required by 
paragraph (a) of this section in that 
type of airplane. 

(e) If the pilot in command is as-

signed to pilot more than one type of 
airplane, that pilot must take the in-
strument proficiency check required by 
paragraph (a) of this section in each 
type of airplane to which that pilot is 
assigned, in rotation, but not more 
than one flight check during each pe-
riod described in paragraph (a) of this 
section. 

(f) Portions of a required flight check 

may be given in an airplane simulator 

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