FAR Part 61

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PART 61--CERTIFICATION: PILOTS, FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS, AND GROUND INSTRUCTORS
	61.1	Applicability and definitions.
	61.3	Requirement for certificates, ratings, and authorizations.
	61.4	Qualification and approval of flight simulators and flight training devices.
	61.5	Certificates and ratings issued under this part.
	61.7	Obsolete certificates and ratings.
	61.11	Expired pilot certificates and reissuance.
	61.13	Issuance of airman certificates, ratings, and authorizations.
	61.14	Refusal to submit to a drug or alcohol test.
	61.15	Offenses involving alcohol or drugs.
	61.16	Refusal to submit to an alcohol test or to furnish test results.
	61.17	Temporary certificate.
	61.19	Duration of pilot and instructor certificates.
	61.21	Duration of a Category II and a Category III pilot authorization (for other than part 121 and part 135 use).
	61.23	Medical certificates: Requirement and duration.
	61.25	Change of name.
	61.27	Voluntary surrender or exchange of certificate.
	61.29	Replacement of a lost or destroyed airman or medical certificate or knowledge test report.
	61.31	Type rating requirements, additional training, and authorization requirements.
	61.33	Tests: General procedure.
	61.35	Knowledge test: Prerequisites and passing grades.
	61.37	Knowledge tests: Cheating or other unauthorized conduct.
	61.39	Prerequisites for practical tests.
	61.41	Flight training received from flight instructors not certificated by the FAA.
	61.43	Practical tests: General procedures.
	61.45	Practical tests: Required aircraft and equipment.
	61.47	Status of an examiner who is authorized by the Administrator to conduct practical tests.
	61.49	Retesting after failure.
	61.51	Pilot logbooks.
	61.53	Prohibition on operations during medical deficiency.
	61.55	Second-in-command qualifications.
	61.56	Flight review.
	61.57	Recent flight experience: Pilot in command.
	61.58	Pilot-in-command proficiency check: Operation of aircraft requiring more than one pilot flight crewmember.
	61.59	Falsification, reproduction, or alteration of applications, certificates, logbooks, reports, or records.
	61.60	Change of address.
	61.61	Applicability.
	61.63	Additional aircraft ratings (other than on an airline transport pilot certificate).
	61.65	Instrument rating requirements.
	61.67	Category II pilot authorization requirements.
	61.68	Category III pilot authorization requirements.
	61.69	Glider towing: Experience and training requirements.
	61.71	Graduates of an approved training program other than under this part: Special rules.
	61.73	Military pilots or former military pilots: Special rules.
	61.75	Private pilot certificate issued on the basis of a foreign pilot license.
	61.77	Special purpose pilot authorization: Operation of U.S.-registered civil aircraft leased by a person who is not a U.S. citizen.
	61.81	Applicability.
	61.83	Eligibility requirements for student pilots.
	61.85	Application.
	61.87	Solo requirements for student pilots.
	61.89	General limitations.
	61.93	Solo cross-country flight requirements.
	61.95	Operations in Class B airspace and at airports located within Class B airspace.
	61.96	Applicability and eligibility requirements: General.
	61.97	Aeronautical knowledge.
	61.98	Flight proficiency.
	61.99	Aeronautical experience.
	61.100	Pilots based on small islands.
	61.101	Recreational pilot privileges and limitations.
	61.102	Applicability.
	61.103	Eligibility requirements: General.
	61.105	Aeronautical knowledge.
	61.107	Flight proficiency.
	61.109	Aeronautical experience.
	61.110	Night flying exceptions.
	61.111	Cross-country flights: Pilots based on small islands.
	61.113	Private pilot privileges and limitations: Pilot in command.
	61.115	Balloon rating: Limitations.
	61.117	Private pilot privileges and limitations: Second in command of aircraft requiring more than one pilot.
	61.121	Applicability.
	61.123	Eligibility requirements: General.
	61.125	Aeronautical knowledge.
	61.127	Flight proficiency.
	61.129	Aeronautical experience.
	61.131	Exceptions to the night flying requirements.
	61.133	Commercial pilot privileges and limitations.
	61.151	Applicability.
	61.153	Eligibility requirements: General.
	61.155	Aeronautical knowledge.
	61.157	Flight proficiency.
	61.159	Aeronautical experience: Airplane category rating.
	61.161	Aeronautical experience: Rotorcraft category and helicopter class rating.
	61.163	Aeronautical experience: Powered-lift category rating.
	61.165	Additional aircraft category and class ratings.
	61.167	Privileges.
	61.181	Applicability.
	61.183	Eligibility requirements.
	61.185	Aeronautical knowledge.
	61.187	Flight proficiency.
	61.189	Flight instructor records.
	61.191	Additional flight instructor ratings.
	61.193	Flight instructor privileges.
	61.195	Flight instructor limitations and qualifications.
	61.197	Renewal of flight instructor certificates.
	61.199	Expired flight instructor certificates and ratings.
	61.211	Applicability.
	61.213	Eligibility requirements.
	61.215	Ground instructor privileges.
	61.217	Recent experience requirements.