---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 65.37"
title: "14"
number: "65.37"
heading: "Skill requirements: Operating positions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/65.37"
---

# §65.37. Skill requirements: Operating positions.


No person may act as an air traffic control tower operator at any operating position unless he has passed a practical test on—

- (a) Control tower equipment and its use;
- (b) Weather reporting procedures and use of reports;
- (c) Notices to Airmen, and use of the Airman's Information Manual;
- (d) Use of operational forms;
- (e) Performance of noncontrol operational duties; and
- (f) Each of the following procedures that is applicable to that operating position and is required by the person performing the examination:
  - (1) **The airport, including rules, equipment, runways, taxiways, and obstructions.**
  - (2) The terrain features, visual checkpoints, and obstructions within the lateral boundaries of the surface areas of Class B, Class C, Class D, or Class E airspace designated for the airport.
  - (3) **Traffic patterns and associated procedures for use of preferential runways and noise abatement.**
  - (4) **Operational agreements.**
  - (5) The center, alternate airports, and those airways, routes, reporting points, and air navigation aids used for terminal air traffic control.
  - (6) **Search and rescue procedures.**
  - (7) **Terminal air traffic control procedures and phraseology.**
  - (8) **Holding procedures, prescribed instrument approach, and departure procedures.**
  - (9) **Radar alignment and technical operation.**
  - (10) **The application of the prescribed radar and nonradar separation standard, as appropriate.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket 10193, 35 FR 12326, Aug. 1, 1991, as amended by Amdt. 65-36, 56 FR 65653, Dec. 17, 1991]

### Source

Source: Docket 10193, 35 FR 12326, Aug. 1, 1970, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: Docket 1179, 27 FR 7973, Aug. 10, 1962, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket 10193, 35 FR 12326, Aug. 1, 1991, as amended by Amdt. 65-36, 56 FR 65653, Dec. 17, 1991]