---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 135.299"
title: "14"
number: "135.299"
heading: "Pilot in command: Line checks: Routes and airports."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/135.299"
---

# §135.299. Pilot in command: Line checks: Routes and airports.

- (a) No certificate holder may use a pilot, nor may any person serve, as a pilot in command of a flight unless, since the beginning of the 12th calendar month before that service, that pilot has passed a flight check in one of the types of aircraft which that pilot is to fly. The flight check shall—
  - (1) Be given by an approved check pilot or by the Administrator;
  - (2) Consist of at least one flight over one route segment; and
  - (3) **Include takeoffs and landings at one or more representative airports.** In addition to the requirements of this paragraph, for a pilot authorized to conduct IFR operations, at least one flight shall be flown over a civil airway, an approved off-airway route, or a portion of either of them.
- (b) The pilot who conducts the check shall determine whether the pilot being checked satisfactorily performs the duties and responsibilities of a pilot in command in operations under this part, and shall so certify in the pilot training record.
- (c) Each certificate holder shall establish in the manual required by [§ 135.21](/cfr/14/135.21.md) a procedure which will ensure that each pilot who has not flown over a route and into an airport within the preceding 90 days will, before beginning the flight, become familiar with all available information required for the safe operation of that flight.

## Notes

### Authority

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).

### Source

Source: Docket 16097, 43 FR 46783, Oct. 10, 1978, unless otherwise noted.