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• 14 CFR Part 91 — General Operating and Flight RulesOpen
  14 CFR § 91.1089 Qualifications: Check pilots (aircraft) and check pilots (simulator).

  Qualifications: Check pilots (aircraft) and check pilots (simulator). (a) For the purposes of this section and § 91.1093: (1) A check pilot (aircraft) is a person who is qualified to conduct flight checks in an aircraft, in a flight simulator ... flight training device for a particular type aircraft. (2) A check pilot (simulator) is a person who is qualified to conduct flight checks, but only in a flight simulator, in a flight training device, or both, for a particular type…

• 14 CFR Part 91 — General Operating and Flight RulesOpen
  14 CFR § 91.1093 Initial and transition training and checking: Check pilots (aircraft), check pilots (simulator).

  Initial and transition training and checking: Check pilots (aircraft), check pilots (simulator). (6) The approved methods, procedures, and limitations for performing the required normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures in the aircraft. (d) The transition ground training for a check pilot ... procedures, and limitations for performing the required normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures applicable to the aircraft to which the check pilot is in transition. (e) The initial and transition flight training for a check pilot (aircraft) must include the following…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Generalp. 7-36
  Chapter 7: Aircraft Materials, Hardware, & Processes › Aircraft Metals › Aircraft Hardware

  Aircraft Hardware Aircraft hardware is the term used to describe the various types of fasteners and miscellaneous small items used in the manufacture and repair of aircraft. The importance of aircraft hardware is often overlooked because of its small size ... however, the safe and efficient operation of any aircraft is greatly dependent upon the correct selection and use of aircraft hardware. An aircraft, even though made of the best materials and strongest parts, would be of doubtful value unless those…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Generalp. 7-51
  Chapter 7: Aircraft Materials, Hardware, & Processes › Aircraft Metals › Standards and Specifications

  fittings to various parts of the aircraft, and for fastening innumerable bracing members and other parts together. The rivet creates a bond that is at least as strong as the material being joined. Two of the major types of rivets ... used in aircraft are the common solid shank type, which must be driven using a bucking bar, and the special (blind) rivets, which may be installed where it is impossible to use a bucking bar. Aircraft rivets are not hardware…

• Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook - Generalp. 7-29
  Chapter 7: Aircraft Materials, Hardware, & Processes › Aircraft Metals › Nonmetallic Aircraft Materials

  accomplished. Although cold-working reduces the ductility, it increases the tensile strength of the wire. In making seamless steel aircraft tubing, the tubing is cold drawn through a ring-shaped die with a mandrel or metal bar inside the tubing ... mandrel and affords a means of controlling the wall thickness and the inside and outside diameters. Nonmetallic Aircraft Materials The use of magnesium, plastic, fabric, and wood in aircraft construction has nearly disappeared since the mid-1950s. Aluminum has also…