Appendix E to Part 141 - Airline Transport Pilot Certification Course
14:3.0.1.2.16.8.3.1.49 : Appendix E
Appendix E to Part 141 - Airline Transport Pilot Certification
Course
1. Applicability. This appendix prescribes the minimum
curriculum for an airline transport pilot certification course
under this part, for the following ratings:
(a) Airplane single-engine.
(b) Airplane multiengine.
(c) Rotorcraft helicopter.
(d) Powered-lift.
2. Eligibility for enrollment. Before completing the
flight portion of the airline transport pilot certification course,
a person must meet the aeronautical experience requirements for an
airline transport pilot certificate under part 61, subpart G of
this chapter that is appropriate to the aircraft category and class
rating for which the course applies, and:
(a) Hold a commercial pilot certificate and an instrument
rating, or an airline transport pilot certificate with instrument
privileges;
(b) Meet the military experience requirements under § 61.73 of
this chapter to qualify for a commercial pilot certificate and an
instrument rating, if the person is a rated military pilot or
former rated military pilot of an Armed Force of the United States;
or
(c) Hold either a foreign airline transport pilot license or
foreign commercial pilot license and an instrument rating, if the
person holds a pilot license issued by a contracting State to the
Convention on International Civil Aviation.
3. Aeronautical knowledge areas. (a) Each approved course
must include at least 40 hours of ground training on the
aeronautical knowledge areas listed in paragraph (b) of this
section, appropriate to the aircraft category and class rating for
which the course applies.
(b) Ground training must include the following aeronautical
knowledge areas:
(1) Applicable Federal Aviation Regulations of this chapter that
relate to airline transport pilot privileges, limitations, and
flight operations;
(2) Meteorology, including knowledge of and effects of fronts,
frontal characteristics, cloud formations, icing, and upper-air
data;
(3) General system of weather and NOTAM collection,
dissemination, interpretation, and use;
(4) Interpretation and use of weather charts, maps, forecasts,
sequence reports, abbreviations, and symbols;
(5) National Weather Service functions as they pertain to
operations in the National Airspace System;
(6) Windshear and microburst awareness, identification, and
avoidance;
(7) Principles of air navigation under instrument meteorological
conditions in the National Airspace System;
(8) Air traffic control procedures and pilot responsibilities as
they relate to en route operations, terminal area and radar
operations, and instrument departure and approach procedures;
(9) Aircraft loading; weight and balance; use of charts, graphs,
tables, formulas, and computations; and the effects on aircraft
performance;
(10) Aerodynamics relating to an aircraft's flight
characteristics and performance in normal and abnormal flight
regimes;
(11) Human factors;
(12) Aeronautical decision making and judgment; and
(13) Crew resource management to include crew communication and
coordination.
4. Flight training. (a) Each approved course must include
at least 25 hours of flight training on the approved areas of
operation listed in paragraph (c) of this section appropriate to
the aircraft category and class rating for which the course
applies. At least 15 hours of this flight training must be
instrument flight training.
(b) For the use of full flight simulators or flight training
devices -
(1) The course may include training in a full flight simulator
or flight training device, provided it is representative of the
aircraft for which the course is approved, meets the requirements
of this paragraph, and the training is given by an authorized
instructor.
(2) Training in a full flight simulator that meets the
requirements of § 141.41(a) may be credited for a maximum of 50
percent of the total flight training hour requirements of the
approved course, or of this section, whichever is less.
(3) Training in a flight training device that meets the
requirements of § 141.41(a) may be credited for a maximum of 25
percent of the total flight training hour requirements of the
approved course, or of this section, whichever is less.
(4) Training in full flight simulators or flight training
devices described in paragraphs (b)(2) and (3) of this section, if
used in combination, may be credited for a maximum of 50 percent of
the total flight training hour requirements of the approved course,
or of this section, whichever is less. However, credit for training
in a flight training device that meets the requirements of §
141.41(a) cannot exceed the limitation provided for in paragraph
(b)(3) of this section.
(c) Each approved course must include flight training on the
approved areas of operation listed in this paragraph appropriate to
the aircraft category and class rating for which the course
applies:
(1) Preflight preparation;
(2) Preflight procedures;
(3) Takeoff and departure phase;
(4) In-flight maneuvers;
(5) Instrument procedures;
(6) Landings and approaches to landings;
(7) Normal and abnormal procedures;
(8) Emergency procedures; and
(9) Postflight procedures.
5. Stage checks and end-of-course tests. (a) Each student
enrolled in an airline transport pilot course must satisfactorily
accomplish the stage checks and end-of-course tests, in accordance
with the school's approved training course, consisting of the
approved areas of operation listed in paragraph (c) of section No.
4 of this appendix that are appropriate to the aircraft category
and class rating for which the course applies.
(b) Each student must demonstrate satisfactory proficiency prior
to receiving an endorsement to operate an aircraft in solo
flight.
[Doc. No. 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997; Amdt. 141-9, 62 FR
40909, July 30, 1997; Amdt. 141-12, 74 FR 42565, Aug. 21, 2009;
Docket FAA-2015-1846, Amdt. 141-18, 81 FR 21461, Apr. 12, 2016]