Federal Aviation Administration, DOT § 121.453

which that person is to operate, and approach procedure for that , ensures that that person has adequate and the visibility at that airport is at knowledge of, and the ability to use, least 3 miles. the information: (d) No certificate holder may use any (1) Weather characteristics appro- person, nor may any person serve, as priate to the season. between terminals (2) Navigation facilities. over a route or area that requires a (3) Communication procedures, in- special type of navigation qualification cluding airport visual aids. unless, within the preceding 12 cal- (4) Kinds of terrain and obstructions. endar months, that person has dem- (5) Minimum safe flight levels. (6) En route and terminal area ar- onstrated qualification on the applica- rival and departure procedures, holding ble navigation system in a manner ac- procedures and authorized instrument ceptable to the Administrator, by one approach procedures for the of the following methods: involved. (1) By flying over a route or area as (7) Congested areas and physical lay- pilot in command using the applicable out of each airport in the terminal area special type of navigation system. in which the pilot will operate. (2) By flying over a route or area as (8) Notices to Airmen. pilot in command under the super- [Doc. No. 17897, 45 FR 41594, June 19, 1980; vision of a check airman using the spe- Amdt. 121–159, 45 FR 43154, June 26, 1980] cial type of navigation system. (3) By completing the training pro- § 121.445 Pilot in command airport gram requirements of appendix G of qualification: Special areas and air- this part. ports. (a) The Administrator may deter- [Doc. No. 17897, 45 FR 41594, June 19, 1980] mine that certain airports (due to items such as surrounding terrain, ob- § 121.447 [Reserved] structions, or complex approach or de- § 121.453 Flight engineer qualifica- parture procedures) are special airports tions. requiring special airport qualifications and that certain areas or routes, or (a) No certificate holder may use any both, require a special type of naviga- person nor may any person serve as a tion qualification. flight engineer on an unless, (b) Except as provided in paragraph within the preceding 6 calendar (c) of this section, no certificate holder months, he has had at least 50 hours of may use any person, nor may any per- flight time as a flight engineer on that son serve, as pilot in command to or type airplane or the certificate holder from an airport determined to require or the Administrator has checked him special airport qualifications unless, on that type airplane and determined within the preceding 12 calendar that he is familiar and competent with months: all essential current information and (1) The pilot in command or second in operating procedures. command has made an entry to that (b) A flight check given in accord- airport (including a takeoff and land- ance with § 121.425(a)(2) satisfies the re- ing) while serving as a pilot flight quirements of paragraph (a) of this sec- crewmember; or tion. (2) The pilot in command has quali- fied by using pictorial means accept- [Doc. No. 9509, 35 FR 96, Jan. 3, 1970] able to the Administrator for that air- port. (c) Paragraph (b) of this section does not apply when an entry to that air- port (including a takeoff or a ) is being made if the ceiling at that air- port is at least 1,000 feet above the low- est MEA or MOCA, or initial approach altitude prescribed for the instrument

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