---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 194.255"
title: "14"
number: "194.255"
heading: "Alternate requirements for powered-lift without fully functioning dual controls used in supervised operating experience when adding a type rating."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/194.255"
---

# §194.255. Alternate requirements for powered-lift without fully functioning dual controls used in supervised operating experience when adding a type rating.

- (a) Notwithstanding [§ 61.64(f)](/cfr/14/61.64.md?p=f) of this chapter, a person who holds a powered-lift category, instrument-powered-lift rating, and powered-lift type rating and seeks an additional type rating for a powered-lift with a single functioning control and a single pilot station in accordance with §§ [61.63(d)](/cfr/14/61.63.md?p=d) and [61.64(a)](/cfr/14/61.64.md?p=a) of this chapter, and does not meet requirements of [§ 61.64(e)](/cfr/14/61.64.md?p=e), will receive a limitation on the certificate restricting the person operating the powered-lift type from carrying any person or property on the aircraft, other than necessary for the purpose of [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section.
- (b) The limitation described in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section may be removed from the rating if the person complies with the following:
  - (1) Performs 25 hours of flight time in the type of powered-lift for which the limitation applies under the observation of a fully rated pilot without limitations for the aircraft, maintaining full communication with the observing pilot,
  - (2) Logs each flight and the observing pilot attests in writing to each flight, and
  - (3) Presents evidence of the supervised operating experience to any examiner or Flight Standards office to have the limitation removed.
- (c) The observing pilot must have unobstructed visual sight of the controls and instrumentation.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7572; 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701-44705, 44707, 44712, 44713, 44715, 44716, and 44722; Sec. 955 of Pub. L. 118-63.

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-2023-1275, Amdt. 194-1, 89 FR 92489, Nov. 21, 2024, unless otherwise noted.