---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 142.65"
title: "14"
number: "142.65"
heading: "Limitations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/142.65"
---

# §142.65. Limitations.

- (a) **A certificate holder shall—**
  - (1) Ensure that a flight simulator or flight training device freeze, slow motion, or repositioning feature is not used during testing or checking; and
  - (2) Ensure that a repositioning feature is used during line operational simulation for evaluation and line-oriented flight training only to advance along a flight route to the point where the descent and approach phase of the flight begins.
- (b) When flight testing, flight checking, or line operational simulation is being conducted, the certificate holder must ensure that one of the following occupies each crewmember position:
  - (1) A crewmember qualified in the aircraft category, class, and type, if a type rating is required, provided that no flight instructor who is giving instruction may occupy a crewmember position.
  - (2) A student, provided that no student may be used in a crewmember position with any other student not in the same specific course.
- (c) The holder of a training center certificate may not recommend a trainee for a certificate or rating, unless the trainee—
  - (1) Has satisfactorily completed the training specified in the course approved under [§ 142.37](/cfr/14/142.37.md); and
  - (2) Has passed the final tests required by [§ 142.37](/cfr/14/142.37.md).
- (d) The holder of a training center certificate may not graduate a student from a course unless the student has satisfactorily completed the curriculum requirements of that course.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 40119, 44101, 44701-44703, 44705, 44707, 44709-44711, 45102-45103, 45301-45302.

### Source

Source: Docket 26933, 61 FR 34562, July 2, 1996, unless otherwise noted.