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§ 141.57 

briefing areas that are available for use 
by the school’s students and personnel 
at each of those airports; 

(5) A description of the type of air-

craft including any special equipment 
used for each phase of training; 

(6) The minimum qualifications and 

ratings for each instructor assigned to 
ground or flight training; and 

(7) A training syllabus that includes 

the following information— 

(i) The prerequisites for enrolling in 

the ground and flight portion of the 
course that include the pilot certifi-
cate and rating (if required by this 
part), training, pilot experience, and 
pilot knowledge; 

(ii) A detailed description of each les-

son, including the lesson’s objectives, 
standards, and planned time for com-
pletion; 

(iii) A description of what the course 

is expected to accomplish with regard 
to student learning; 

(iv) The expected accomplishments 

and the standards for each stage of 
training; and 

(v) A description of the checks and 

tests to be used to measure a student’s 
accomplishments for each stage of 
training. 

(d) A pilot school may request and re-

ceive initial approval for a period of 
not more than 24 calendar months for 
any training course under this part 
that does not meet the minimum 
ground and flight training time re-
quirements, provided the following pro-
visions are met: 

(1) The school holds a pilot school 

certificate issued under this part and 
has held that certificate for a period of 
at least 24 consecutive calendar 
months preceding the month of the re-
quest; 

(2) In addition to the information re-

quired by paragraph (c) of this section, 
the training course specifies planned 
ground and flight training time re-
quirements for the course; 

(3) The school does not request the 

training course to be approved for ex-
amining authority, nor may that 
school hold examining authority for 
that course; and 

(4) The practical test or knowledge 

test for the course is to be given by— 

(i) An FAA inspector; or 

(ii) An examiner who is not an em-

ployee of the school. 

(e) A pilot school may request and re-

ceive final approval for any training 
course under this part that does not 
meet the minimum ground and flight 
training time requirements, provided 
the following conditions are met: 

(1) The school has held initial ap-

proval for that training course for at 
least 24 calendar months. 

(2) The school has— 
(i) Trained at least 10 students in 

that training course within the pre-
ceding 24 calendar months and rec-
ommended those students for a pilot, 
flight instructor, or ground instructor 
certificate or rating; and 

(ii) At least 80 percent of those stu-

dents passed the practical or knowl-
edge test, as appropriate, on the first 
attempt, and that test was given by— 

(A) An FAA inspector; or 
(B) An examiner who is not an em-

ployee of the school. 

(3) In addition to the information re-

quired by paragraph (c) of this section, 
the training course specifies planned 
ground and flight training time re-
quirements for the course. 

(4) The school does not request that 

the training course be approved for ex-
amining authority nor may that school 
hold examining authority for that 
course. 

[Doc. No. 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997, as 
amended by Amdt. 141–12, 74 FR 42563, Aug. 
21, 2009; Amdt. 141–15, 76 FR 54107, Aug. 31, 
2011] 

§ 141.57

Special curricula. 

An applicant for a pilot school cer-

tificate or provisional pilot school cer-
tificate may apply for approval to con-
duct a special course of airman train-
ing for which a curriculum is not pre-
scribed in the appendixes of this part, 
if the applicant shows that the training 
course contains features that could 
achieve a level of pilot proficiency 
equivalent to that achieved by a train-
ing course prescribed in the appendixes 
of this part or the requirements of part 
61 of this chapter. 

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