Pacific Island Aviator Development Act

Pacific Island Aviator Development Act

This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to revise its flight time requirements for airplanes with a single-engine rating.

Specifically, DOT must establish an exception to require a straight-line distance of at least 110 nautical miles for the longest segment cross-country flight requirement on a cross-country flight of 300 nautical miles or more if such requirement is being met in Guam, Hawaii, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8234 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8234

To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue certain regulations 
    to amend title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, to establish an 
 exception for the straight-line distance requirement for an airplane 
             single-engine rating, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2022

 Mr. San Nicolas introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
           the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue certain regulations 
    to amend title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, to establish an 
 exception for the straight-line distance requirement for an airplane 
             single-engine rating, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pacific Island Aviator Development 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AERONAUTICAL EXPERIENCE.

    The Secretary of Transportation shall issue such regulations as are 
necessary to amend section 61.129(a)(4)(i) of title 14, Code of Federal 
Regulations, to establish an exception of a straight-line distance of 
at least 110 nautical miles for the longest segment cross-country 
flight requirement if the requirement is being met in Guam, Hawaii, or 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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