FAA withdraws rule to restore simulator time

By: Elizabeth A. Tennyson / Flight Training AOPA
AOPA is once again asking the FAA to expedite the rulemaking process to allow 20 hours of aviation training device (ATD) instruction to count toward the instrument rating. AOPA made the request Jan. 15, after the FAA announced that it was withdrawing a direct to final rule that would have had the same effect.
The agency said it was withdrawing the rule because it had received adverse comments and was therefore obligated to do so by 14 CFR 11.13. The direct to final rule, published last December, would have restored training standards changed in January 2014 when the FAA issued a policy statement that would have effectively cut in half the number of hours that could be logged toward the instrument rating.

 

FAA withdraws rule to restore simulator time