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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

Pt. 60, App. A 

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INIMUM

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IMULATOR

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EQUIREMENTS

—Continued 

QPS requirements 

Simulator levels 

Information 

Entry No. 

General simulator requirements 

A 

B 

C 

D 

Notes 

6.o. ...........

Dusk (or Twilight) Visual Scenes. When 

used in training, testing, or checking 
activities, the simulator must provide 
dusk (or twilight) visual scenes with 
sufficient scene content to recognize 
the airport, the terrain, and major 
landmarks around the airport. The 
scene content must allow a pilot to 
successfully accomplish a visual 
landing. Dusk (or twilight) scenes, as 
a minimum, must provide full color 
presentations of reduced ambient in-
tensity, sufficient surfaces with ap-
propriate textural cues that include 
self-illuminated objects such as road 
networks, ramp lighting and airport 
signage, to conduct a visual ap-
proach, landing and airport move-
ment (taxi). Scenes must include a 
definable horizon and typical terrain 
characteristics such as fields, roads 
and bodies of water and surfaces il-
luminated by airplane landing lights. 
If provided, directional horizon light-
ing must have correct orientation and 
be consistent with surface shading 
effects. Total night or dusk (twilight) 
scene content must be comparable 
in detail to that produced by 10,000 
visible textured surfaces and 15,000 
visible lights with sufficient system 
capacity to display 16 simultaneously 
moving objects.

An SOC is required. 

X X 

6.p. ...........

Daylight Visual Scenes. The simulator 

must provide daylight visual scenes 
with sufficient scene content to rec-
ognize the airport, the terrain, and 
major landmarks around the airport. 
The scene content must allow a pilot 
to successfully accomplish a visual 
landing. Any ambient lighting must 
not ‘‘washout’’ the displayed visual 
scene. Total daylight scene content 
must be comparable in detail to that 
produced by 10,000 visible textured 
surfaces and 6,000 visible lights with 
sufficient system capacity to display 
16 simultaneously moving objects. 
The visual display must be free of 
apparent and distracting quantization 
and other distracting visual effects 
while the simulator is in motion.

An SOC is required. 

X X 

6.q. ...........

The simulator must provide operational 

visual scenes that portray physical 
relationships known to cause landing 
illusions to pilots.

X  X  For example: short runways, landing approaches 

over water, uphill or downhill runways, rising ter-
rain on the approach path, unique topographic 
features. 

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