{"id":4920,"date":"2026-04-01T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:51:59","slug":"nfta-submits-a-comprehensive-modernization-of-pilot-training-conducted-by-14-cfr-part-141-training-organizations-comments-and-extension-of-comment-period-requested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonblair.net\/?p=4920","title":{"rendered":"FAA seeks comment on report “A Comprehensive Modernization of Pilot Training Conducted by 14 CFR Part 141 Training Organizations” – Comments and Extension of Comment Period Requested"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many in the aviation training industry have been awaiting the release of a report from the National Flight Training Alliance (NFTA) that is intended to be representative of a consensus of desires from the flight training industry for changes in flight training regulations.<\/p>\n

This report was released today and can be found at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/comment\/FAA-2024-2531-0293<\/a> (or you can click here or the picture to the right to download the report<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This paper is a 471-page report billed as improvements to the FAA 141 regulations, as a part of the FAA 141 Modernization effort.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about what the FAA has been doing on this effort at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/office_org\/headquarters_offices\/avs\/offices\/afx\/afs\/afs800\/afs810\/modernization_of_part-141_initiative<\/a><\/p>\n

Know that the proposed changes in this document, if implemented by the FAA, will affect far more than just those providers that provide training under FAA part 141 approvals.<\/p>\n

I will be going through the document and providing some more notes on it in the upcoming days, but if you have an interest in the flight training sector in the United States, I strongly encourage you to do the same and provide comments, concerns, or issues with what is being provided at the following location:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/commenton\/FAA-2024-2531-0280<\/a><\/p>\n

On a personal note, I will say that there are good things in this report from what I have heard and seen so far. But there are also a wide variety of things that raise concern. The provision of this report as “comment” to a federal register that now offers only a 10-day comment period for the industry is wildly divergent from typical federal regulatory comment periods (which are typically 30, 60, or more days long). This feels like a rush job to push through special interest carve-outs or options. I don’t know that for sure yet, but we need to watch for that. It is additionally significantly divergent from typical FAA processes to not use the Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) or Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) processes for such impactful guidance on future regulatory crafting. This effort was a “workaround” for those processes, ostensibly attempting to build industry consensus for a report. But that report was crafted in a fractured manner that kept some participants in the process sequestered from different segments of the work. The result was that the final report was “briefed” in a digital\/in-person meeting where the document was not shared in copy, but only in an on-screen and discussion manner in early March. The final document was not shared with the entire group of participants until today, when it was published.<\/p>\n

As a 471-page document, we now officially have until April 10th to review and provide comments on a document that the FAA will then utilize to begin the rulemaking writing process that will potentially change our aviation training industry regulations in ways that are bigger and more impactful than any changes have been in many decades.<\/p>\n

This is important to the business of flight training, and more importantly, to the standards to which we train, test, and certificate the next generations of pilots that will fly in our national airspace system and carry our cargo and passenger public around.<\/p>\n

I am hopeful that anyone reading this will take the time to do two things.<\/p>\n

(1) Contact your U.S. Senators and your local U.S. House Representative and formally ask them to Extended Comment Period for Federal Docket ID FAA-2024-2531 to allow for more time to review this document and provide real feedback from the industry. (If you don’t know how to find and contact your U.S. representatives, go to here: https:\/\/www.usa.gov\/elected-officials<\/a>. You can find them, find their webpages, and submit requests via their contact forms)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

and<\/span><\/p>\n

(2) Take the time to read the document and think about how the proposed changes might affect your flight training operation, how it might enhance or reduce pilot quality, and the safeguards in our training system to ensure the quality of our pilots in the future. Provide your comments after you have done so here: https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/commenton\/FAA-2024-2531-0280<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The FAA sent the following email on this topic today:<\/p>\n

From:<\/strong>\u00a09-AFS-Modernization-Part141-Comments (FAA) <9-AFS-Modernization-Part141-Comments@faa.gov<\/a>>
\nSent:<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday, April 1, 2026 4:06 PM
\nTo:<\/strong>\u00a09-AFS-Modernization-Part141-Comments (FAA) <9-AFS-Modernization-Part141-Comments@faa.gov<\/a>>
\nCc:<\/strong>\u00a0141taskforce@nftaus.org<\/a>
\nSubject:<\/strong>\u00a0RE: Rec Report Email<\/p>\n

Dear Closing Meeting Registrant\/Participant,<\/p>\n

We are excited to see the industry recommendation report posted to its final location on the project docket. You may find the report and all other comments on the docket at the link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/docket\/FAA-2024-2531\/comments<\/a>. To directly access the NFTA comment that includes the industry recommendations report, you may use this link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/comment\/FAA-2024-2531-0293<\/a>. Any comments directed at the recommendation report should include a reference to the comment ID: FAA-2024-2531-0293. Feel free to share this information with your organizations and other interested stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Please note that the docket comment period will close at midnight on April 10th<\/sup>\u00a0and will not reopen. Our email box (9-AFS-Modernization-Part141-Comments@faa.gov<\/a>) will remain open beyond this deadline, if there are any questions or comments you wish to share with\u00a0Part 141 Modernization Initiative Team\u00a0directly.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the General Aviation and Commercial Division and the Part 141 Modernization Team, we thank everyone who participated in the public meetings and engagement with the initiative!<\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/p>\n

Part 141 Modernization Initiative Team
\nTraining and Certification Group, AFS-810
\nFlight Standards Service\/FAA
\n9-AFS-Modernizaiton-Part41-Comments@faa.gov<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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Update:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

04\/02\/2026 – ALPA has asked for an extension of the comment period:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/downloads.regulations.gov\/FAA-2024-2531-0324\/attachment_1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

04\/06\/2026 – AOPA has asked for an extension of the comment period:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/comment\/FAA-2024-2531-0329<\/a><\/p>\n

04\/06\/2026<\/p>\n

National Air Transportation Association has asked for an extension of the comment period:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/comment\/FAA-2024-2531-0346<\/a><\/p>\n

04\/06\/2026<\/p>\n

Society of Aviation and Flight Educators has asked for an extension of the comment period:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/comment\/FAA-2024-2531-0328<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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