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.

After publication of the final rule, the FAA determined that the revisions to the section headings for §§ 135.339 and ( printed page 105448) 135.340 had inadvertently not been made. The final rule intended to revise the section heading for § 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 “§ 135.339 Initial and transition training and checking: Check airmen (aircraft), check airmen (simulator),” to “§ 135.339 Initial and transition training and checking: Check pilots.” Similarly, the section heading for § 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 “§ 135.340 Initial and transition training and checking: Flight instructors (aircraft), flight instructors (simulator)” to “§ 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.

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

89 FR 105447