2. Amend Sec. 61.159 by revising paragraph (a)(5) to read as follows:


Sec. 61.159 Aeronautical experience: Airplane category rating.

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(5) 250 hours of flight time in an airplane as a pilot in command,
or as second in command performing the duties of pilot in command while
under the supervision of a pilot in command, or any combination
thereof, subject to the following:
(i) The flight time requirement must include at least--
(A) 100 hours of cross-country flight time; and
(B) 25 hours of night flight time.
(ii) Except for a person who has been removed from flying status
for lack of proficiency or because of a disciplinary action involving
aircraft operations, a U.S. military pilot or former U.S. military
pilot who meets the requirements of Sec. 61.73(b)(1), or a military
pilot in the Armed Forces of a foreign contracting State to the
Convention on International Civil Aviation who meets the requirements
of Sec. 61.73(c)(1), may credit flight time in a powered-lift aircraft
operated in horizontal flight toward the flight time requirement.
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