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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 248 (Friday, December 27, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 105447-105448]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-30939]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 135

[Docket No. FAA-2019-0360; Amdt. No. 135-145A]
RIN 2120-AL12

Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement; 
Correction

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), U.S. Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Correcting amendments.

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SUMMARY: On June 18, 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 
published a final rule titled ``Removal of Check Pilot Medical 
Certificate Requirement,'' which was corrected on July 16, 2024. That 
final rule removed inconsistencies applicable to the qualification 
requirements for check pilots and flight instructors in domestic, flag, 
and supplemental operations and flight instructors in commuter and on 
demand operations so that check pilots, check flight engineers, and 
flight instructors can continue to perform their functions in aircraft 
without a medical certificate unless they are serving as required 
flightcrew members. It also removed the medical certificate requirement 
for flight instructors in commuter and on-demand operations who perform 
their functions in aircraft and are not serving as required flightcrew 
members. The final rule inadvertently failed to revise two section 
headings. This document makes those corrections.

DATES: This correction is effective December 27, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joshua Jackson, Aviation Safety 
Inspector, Air Transportation Division, Flight Standards Service, 
Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW, 
Washington, DC 20591; telephone: 202-267-8166; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 18, 2024, the FAA published a final 
rule titled ``Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement.'' 
\1\ That final rule removed inconsistencies applicable to the 
qualification requirements for check pilots and flight instructors in 
domestic, flag, and supplemental operations and flight instructors in 
commuter and on demand operations so that check pilots, check flight 
engineers, and flight instructors can continue to perform their 
functions in aircraft without a medical certificate unless they are 
serving as required flightcrew members. It also removed the medical 
certificate requirement for flight instructors in commuter and on-
demand operations who perform their functions in aircraft and are not 
serving as required flightcrew members. This is the second set of 
corrections. The first set of corrections was published in the Federal 
Register on July 16, 2024 (89 FR 57729). This document augments the 
previously published corrections.
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    \1\ Removal of Check Pilot Medical Certificate Requirement final 
rule, 89 FR 51416 (Jun. 18, 2024), corrected at 89 FR 57729 (Jul. 
16, 2024).
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    After publication of the final rule, the FAA determined that the 
revisions to the section headings for Sec. Sec.  135.339 and

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135.340 had inadvertently not been made. The final rule intended to 
revise the section heading for Sec.  135.339 by removing the obsolete 
terminology ``check airmen (aircraft), check airmen (simulator)'' and 
replacing them with ``check pilots.'' This would rename the heading to 
that section from ``Sec.  135.339 Initial and transition training and 
checking: Check airmen (aircraft), check airmen (simulator),'' to 
``Sec.  135.339 Initial and transition training and checking: Check 
pilots.'' Similarly, the section heading for Sec.  135.340 was also 
intended to be revised by removing the obsolete terminology ``flight 
instructors (aircraft)'' and ``flight instructors (simulator)'' and 
replacing those terms with ``flight instructor. This would rename the 
heading to that section from ``Sec.  135.340 Initial and transition 
training and checking: Flight instructors (aircraft), flight 
instructors (simulator)'' to ``Sec.  135.340 Initial and transition 
training and checking: Flight instructors.'' However, the FAA failed to 
include the instruction to revise the section heading in the amendatory 
instructions for both sections. This document makes those corrections.

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 135

    Aircraft, Airmen, Aviation safety, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements.

    Accordingly, 14 CFR part 135 is corrected by making the following 
correcting amendments:

PART 135--OPERATING REQUIREMENTS: COMMUTER AND ON DEMAND OPERATIONS 
AND RULES GOVERNING PERSONS ON BOARD SUCH AIRCRAFT

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1. The authority citation for part 135 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 41706, 44701-44702, 44705, 
44709, 44711-44713, 44715-44717, 44722, 44730, 45101-45105; Pub. L. 
112-95, 126 Stat. 58 (49 U.S.C. 44730).

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2. Amend Sec.  135.339 by revising the section heading to read as 
follows:

Sec.  135.339  Initial and transition training and checking: Check 
pilots.

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3. Amend Sec.  135.340 by revising the section heading to read as 
follows:

Sec.  135.340  Initial and transition training and checking: Flight 
instructors.

    Issued under authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 44701(a), 
and 44703 in Washington, DC.
Brandon Roberts,
Executive Director, Office of Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 2024-30939 Filed 12-26-24; 8:45 am]
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