Regulation Text
(a) Each program manager must prepare and keep current a written training program curriculum for each type of aircraft for each crewmember required for that type aircraft. The curriculum must include ground and flight training required by this subpart.
(b) Each training program curriculum must include the following:
(1) A list of principal ground training subjects, including emergency training subjects, that are provided.
(2) A list of all the training devices, mock-ups, systems trainers, procedures trainers, or other training aids that the program manager will use.
(3) Detailed descriptions or pictorial displays of the approved normal, abnormal, and emergency maneuvers, procedures and functions that will be performed during each flight training phase or flight check, indicating those maneuvers, procedures and functions that are to be performed during the inflight portions of flight training and flight checks.
Research Notes
Section 91.1079 — Training program: Curriculum — specifies the curriculum elements required in the training program.
Curriculum elements:
- Aircraft systems and procedures
- Normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures
- Crew resource management (CRM)
- Threat and error management
- Aircraft-specific differences training
- Operations-specific training (international, ETOPS, etc.)
Reference: AC 120-51 on CRM training; FAA Order 8900.1.
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