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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 60.25 

NSPM determines that specific condi-
tions warrant otherwise. 

(c) Within twelve months of the re-

lease of the final aircraft data package 
by the aircraft manufacturer, but no 
later than two years after the issuance 
of the interim qualification status, the 
sponsor must apply for initial quali-
fication in accordance with § 60.15 based 
on the final aircraft data package ap-
proved by the aircraft manufacturer, 
unless the NSPM determines that spe-
cific conditions warrant otherwise. 

(d) An FSTD with interim qualifica-

tion may be modified only in accord-
ance with § 60.23. 

§ 60.23

Modifications to FSTDs. 

(a) 

Description of a modification. For 

the purposes of this part, an FSTD is 
said to have been modified when: 

(1) Equipment or devices intended to 

simulate aircraft appliances are added 
to or removed from FSTD, which 
change the Statement of Qualification 
or the MQTG; or 

(2) Changes are made to either soft-

ware or hardware that are intended to 
impact flight or ground dynamics; 
changes are made that impact perform-
ance or handling characteristics of the 
FSTD (including motion, visual, con-
trol loading, or sound systems for 
those FSTD levels requiring sound 
tests and measurements); or changes 
are made to the MQTG. 

(b) 

FSTD Directive. When the FAA de-

termines that FSTD modification is 
necessary for safety of flight reasons, 
the sponsor of each affected FSTD 
must ensure that the FSTD is modified 
according to the FSTD Directive re-
gardless of the original qualification 
standards applicable to any specific 
FSTD. 

(c) 

Using the modified FSTD. The spon-

sor may not use, or allow the use of, or 
offer the use of, the FSTD with the 
proposed modification for flight crew-
member training or evaluation or for 
obtaining flight experience for the 
flight crewmember to meet any re-
quirement of this chapter unless: 

(1) The sponsor has notified the 

NSPM and the TPAA of their intent to 
incorporate the proposed modification, 
and one of the following has occurred; 

(i) Twenty-one days have passed 

since the sponsor notified the NSPM 

and the TPAA of the proposed modi-
fication and the sponsor has not re-
ceived any response from either the 
NSPM or the TPAA; 

(ii) Twenty-one days have passed 

since the sponsor notified the NSPM 
and the TPAA of the proposed modi-
fication and one has approved the pro-
posed modification and the other has 
not responded; 

(iii) Fewer than twenty-one days 

have passed since the sponsor notified 
the NSPM and the TPAA of the pro-
posed modification and the NSPM and 
TPAA both approve the proposed modi-
fication; 

(iv) The sponsor has successfully 

completed any evaluation the NSPM 
may require in accordance with the 
standards for an evaluation for initial 
qualification or any part thereof before 
the modified FSTD is placed in service. 

(2) The notification is submitted with 

the content as, and in a form and man-
ner as, specified in the applicable QPS. 

(d) 

User notification. When a modifica-

tion is made to an FSTD that affects 
the Statement of Qualification, the 
sponsor must post an addendum to the 
Statement of Qualification until such 
time as a permanent, updated state-
ment is posted. 

(e) 

MQTG update. The MQTG must be 

updated with current objective test re-
sults in accordance with § 60.15(h) and 
(i) and appropriate objective data in 
accordance with § 60.13, each time an 
FSTD is modified and an objective test 
or other MQTG section is affected by 
the modification. If an FSTD Directive 
is the cause of this update, the direc-
tion to make the modification and the 
record of the modification completion 
must be filed in the MQTG. 

§ 60.25

Operation with missing, mal-

functioning, or inoperative compo-
nents. 

(a) No person may knowingly use or 

allow the use of or misrepresent the ca-
pability of an FSTD for any maneuver, 
procedure, or task that is to be accom-
plished to meet training, evaluation, or 
flight experience requirements of this 
chapter for flight crewmember certifi-
cation or qualification when there is a 

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