Part 61 — Certification: Pilots, Flight Instructors, and Ground Instructors
Subpart A — General
- § 61.1— Applicability and definitions.
- § 61.2— Exercise of Privilege.
- § 61.3— Requirement for certificates, ratings, privileges, and authorizations.
- § 61.4— Qualification and approval of flight simulators and flight training devices.
- § 61.5— Certificates and ratings issued under this part.
- § 61.7— Obsolete certificates and ratings.
- § 61.8— Inapplicability of unmanned aircraft operations.
- § 61.9— Inapplicability of simplified flight controls aircraft experience credit.
- § 61.11— Expired pilot certificates and re-issuance.
- § 61.13— Issuance of airman certificates, ratings, and authorizations.
- § 61.14— Incorporation by Reference.
- § 61.15— Offenses involving alcohol or drugs.
- § 61.16— Refusal to submit to an alcohol test or to furnish test results.
- § 61.17— Temporary certificate.
- § 61.19— Duration of pilot and instructor certificates and privileges.
- § 61.21— Duration of a Category II and a Category III pilot authorization (for other than part 121 and part 135 use).
- § 61.23— Medical certificates: Requirement and duration.
- § 61.25— Change of name.
- § 61.27— Voluntary surrender or exchange of certificate.
- § 61.29— Replacement of a lost or destroyed airman or medical certificate or knowledge test report.
- § 61.31— Type rating requirements, additional training, and authorization requirements.
- § 61.33— Tests: General procedure.
- § 61.35— Knowledge test: Prerequisites and passing grades.
- § 61.37— Knowledge tests: Cheating or other unauthorized conduct.
- § 61.39— Prerequisites for practical tests.
- § 61.40— Relief for U.S. Military and civilian personnel who are assigned outside the United States in support of U.S. Armed Forces operations.
- § 61.41— Flight training received from flight instructors not certificated by the FAA.
- § 61.43— Practical tests: General procedures.
- § 61.45— Practical tests: Required aircraft and equipment.
- § 61.47— Status and responsibilities of an examiner who is authorized by the Administrator to conduct practical tests.
- § 61.49— Retesting after failure.
- § 61.51— Pilot logbooks.
- § 61.52— Use of aeronautical experience obtained in ultralight vehicles.
- § 61.53— Prohibition on operations during medical deficiency.
- § 61.55— Second-in-command qualifications.
- § 61.56— Flight review.
- § 61.57— Recent flight experience: Pilot in command.
- § 61.58— Pilot-in-command proficiency check: Operation of an aircraft that requires more than one pilot flight crewmember or is turbojet-powered.
- § 61.60— Change of address.
Subpart B — Aircraft Ratings and Pilot Authorizations
- § 61.61— Applicability.
- § 61.63— Additional aircraft ratings (other than for ratings at the airline transport pilot certification level).
- § 61.64— Use of a flight simulator and flight training device.
- § 61.65— Instrument rating requirements.
- § 61.66— Enhanced Flight Vision System Pilot Requirements.
- § 61.67— Category II pilot authorization requirements.
- § 61.68— Category III pilot authorization requirements.
- § 61.69— Glider and unpowered ultralight vehicle towing: Experience and training requirements.
- § 61.71— Graduates of an approved training program other than under this part: Special rules.
- § 61.73— Military pilots or former military pilots: Special rules.
- § 61.75— Private pilot certificate issued on the basis of a foreign pilot license.
- § 61.77— Special purpose pilot authorization: Operation of a civil aircraft of the United States and leased by a non-U.S. citizen.
Subpart C — Student Pilots
- § 61.81— Applicability.
- § 61.83— Eligibility requirements for student pilots.
- § 61.85— Application.
- § 61.87— Solo requirements for student pilots.
- § 61.89— General limitations.
- § 61.93— Solo cross-country flight requirements.
- § 61.94— Student pilot seeking a sport pilot certificate or a recreational pilot certificate: Operations at airports within, and in airspace located within, Class B, C, and D airspace, or at airports with an operational control tower in other airspace.
- § 61.95— Operations in Class B airspace and at airports located within Class B airspace.
Subpart D — Recreational Pilots
Subpart E — Private Pilots
- § 61.102— Applicability.
- § 61.103— Eligibility requirements: General.
- § 61.105— Aeronautical knowledge.
- § 61.107— Flight proficiency.
- § 61.109— Aeronautical experience.
- § 61.110— Night flying exceptions.
- § 61.111— Cross-country flights: Pilots based on small islands.
- § 61.113— Private pilot privileges and limitations: Pilot in command.
- § 61.115— Balloon rating: Limitations.
- § 61.117— Private pilot privileges and limitations: Second in command of aircraft requiring more than one pilot.
Subpart F — Commercial Pilots
Subpart G — Airline Transport Pilots
- § 61.151— Applicability.
- § 61.153— Eligibility requirements: General.
- § 61.155— Aeronautical knowledge.
- § 61.156— Training requirements: Airplane category—multiengine class or multiengine airplane type rating concurrently with an airline transport pilot certificate.
- § 61.157— Flight proficiency.
- § 61.159— Aeronautical experience: Airplane category rating.
- § 61.160— Aeronautical experience—airplane category restricted privileges.
- § 61.161— Aeronautical experience: Rotorcraft category and helicopter class rating.
- § 61.163— Aeronautical experience: Powered-lift category rating.
- § 61.165— Additional aircraft category and class ratings.
- § 61.167— Airline transport pilot privileges and limitations.
- § 61.169— Letters of authorization for institutions of higher education.
Subpart H — Flight Instructors Other than Flight Instructors With a Sport Pilot Rating
- § 61.181— Applicability.
- § 61.183— Eligibility requirements.
- § 61.185— Aeronautical knowledge.
- § 61.187— Flight proficiency.
- § 61.189— Flight instructor records.
- § 61.191— Additional flight instructor ratings.
- § 61.193— Flight instructor privileges.
- § 61.195— Flight instructor limitations and qualifications.
- § 61.197— Recent experience requirements for flight instructor certification.
- § 61.199— Reinstatement of flight instructor privileges.
Subpart I — Ground Instructors
Subpart J — Sport Pilots
- § 61.301— What is the purpose of this subpart and to whom does it apply?
- § 61.303— If I want to operate an aircraft that satisfies the limitations identified in § 61.316, what operating limits and endorsement requirements in this subpart must I comply with?
- § 61.305— What are the age and language requirements for a sport pilot certificate?
- § 61.307— What tests do I have to take to obtain a sport pilot certificate?
- § 61.309— What aeronautical knowledge must I have to apply for a sport pilot certificate?
- § 61.311— What flight proficiency requirements must I meet to apply for a sport pilot certificate?
- § 61.313— What aeronautical experience must I have to apply for a sport pilot certificate?
- § 61.315— What are the privileges and limits of my sport pilot certificate?
- § 61.316— What are the performance limits and design requirements for the aircraft that a sport pilot may operate?
- § 61.317— Is my sport pilot certificate issued with aircraft category and class ratings?
- § 61.321— How do I obtain privileges to operate an additional category or class of aircraft?
- § 61.325— How do I obtain privileges to operate an aircraft meeting the performance limits and design requirements of § 61.316 at an airport within, or in airspace within, Class B, C, and D airspace, or in other airspace with an airport having an operational control tower?
- § 61.327— Are there specific endorsement requirements to operate an aircraft based on V<sub>H</sub>?
- § 61.329— How do I obtain privileges to operate an aircraft at night?
- § 61.331— How do I obtain privileges to operate an aircraft with retractable landing gear or an airplane with a manual controllable pitch propeller?
Subpart K — Flight Instructors With a Sport Pilot Rating
- § 61.401— What is the purpose of this subpart?
- § 61.403— What are the age, language, and pilot certificate requirements for a flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.405— What tests do I have to take to obtain a flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.407— What aeronautical knowledge must I have to apply for a flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.409— What flight proficiency requirements must I meet to apply for a flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.411— What aeronautical experience must I have to apply for a flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.412— Do I need additional training to provide instruction on control and maneuvering an airplane solely by reference to the instruments in an aircraft based on V<sub>H</sub>?
- § 61.413— What are the privileges of my flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.415— What are the limits of a flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.417— Will my flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating list aircraft category and class ratings?
- § 61.419— How do I obtain privileges to provide training in an additional category or class of aircraft?
- § 61.421— May I give myself an endorsement?
- § 61.423— What are the recordkeeping requirements for a flight instructor with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.425— How do I establish recent experience for my flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.427— How do I reinstate my flight instructor privileges if I fail to establish recent experience for my flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating?
- § 61.429— May I exercise the privileges of a flight instructor certificate with a sport pilot rating if I hold a flight instructor certificate with another rating?