Part 135 Section 299 Check Ride

Dick Karl

Friday, April 13, 2012 at 09:13 PM ET

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** Capt. Jason Hepner and FAA's Robert
Donahue after a successful 299 check ride.**

Key Takeaways:

The article details an annual Part 135 flight check (a "299 ride") for Captain Jason Hepner, with the narrator unexpectedly filling the First Officer role despite limited recent experience in that capacity and aircraft.
The narrator experiences significant anxiety and struggles during pre-check ride practice due to unfamiliarity with FO duties and fear of jeopardizing Jason's crucial evaluation.
Despite their lack of prior flight experience together, the narrator and Captain Hepner demonstrated exceptional crew coordination and effective checklist usage during the FAA check ride.
The FAA inspector highly praised their teamwork, ranking them in the "top 10 percent" of crews, resulting in Captain Hepner successfully passing his mandatory flight check.

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Forget about flight reviews and instrument competency checks. Part 135 operations are conducted in a thicket of regulations. Among them are the requirements of Section 299:
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a)** “No certificate holder may use a pilot, nor may any person serve as a pilot in command of a flight, unless, since the beginning of the 12th calendar month before that service, that pilot has passed a flight check in one of the types of aircraft which that pilot is to fly. The flight check shall:

1) Be given by an approved check pilot or by the administrator.