---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 61.9"
title: "14"
number: "61.9"
heading: "Inapplicability of simplified flight controls aircraft experience credit."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/61.9"
---

# §61.9. Inapplicability of simplified flight controls aircraft experience credit.


Notwithstanding the requirements specified in [§ 61.51(c)](/cfr/14/61.51.md?p=c), any pilot time acquired while operating an airplane or helicopter with a simplified flight controls designation may not be used to satisfy the following aeronautical experience requirements for a private, commercial, or airline transport pilot certificate, except for private pilot applicants who present an aircraft with the simplified flight controls designation to conduct the practical test—

- (a) The solo flight time requirements in § [61.109(a)(5)](/cfr/14/61.109.md?p=a-5) or [(c)(4)](/cfr/14/61.109.md?p=c-4);
- (b) The PIC flight time requirements in § [61.129(a)(2)(i)](/cfr/14/61.129.md?p=a-2-i) and [(c)(2)(i)](/cfr/14/61.129.md?p=c-2-i);
- (c) The PIC flight time requirements in [§ 61.159(a)(5)](/cfr/14/61.159.md?p=a-5); and
- (d) The PIC flight time requirements in [§ 61.161(a)(3)](/cfr/14/61.161.md?p=a-3).

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2023-1377, Amdt. 61-159, 90 FR 35211, July 24, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701-44703, 44707, 44709-44711, 44729, 44903, 45102-45103, 45301-45302.

### Source

Source: Docket 25910, 62 FR 16298, Apr. 4, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2023-1377, Amdt. 61-159, 90 FR 35211, July 24, 2025]