---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 141.81"
title: "14"
number: "141.81"
heading: "Ground training."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/141.81"
---

# §141.81. Ground training.

- (a) Except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, each instructor who is assigned to a ground training course must hold a flight or ground instructor certificate, or a commercial pilot certificate with a lighter-than-air rating, with the appropriate rating for that course of training.
- (b) A person who does not meet the requirements of [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section may be assigned ground training duties in a ground training course, if:
  - (1) The chief instructor who is assigned to that ground training course finds the person qualified to give that training; and
  - (2) The training is given while under the supervision of the chief instructor or the assistant chief instructor who is present at the facility when the training is given.
- (c) An instructor may not be used in a ground training course until that instructor has been briefed on the objectives and standards of that course by the chief instructor, assistant chief instructor, or check instructor.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997; Amdt. 141-9, 62 FR 40908, July 30, 1997]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701-44703, 44707, 44709, 44711, 45102-45103, 45301-45302.

### Source

Source: Docket 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997; Amdt. 141-9, 62 FR 40908, July 30, 1997]