Training and Workforce
MU-2 training changes ahead
The FAA received a fair number of comprehensive comments during the 30-day comment period for the proposed special regulations (SFAR) that will mandate typ

The FAA received a fair number of comprehensive comments during the 30-day comment period for the proposed special regulations (SFAR) that will mandate type-specific training in the Mitsubishi MU-2. The comment period ended October 30, and 72 comments reside in the agency’s docket. Although commercial MU-2 operators have already had to comply with the new MU-2 training program (a point that was reemphasized in FAA Notice N8000.348, effective Dec. 29, 2006), Part 91 operators won’t have to comply until 180 days after the SFAR becomes final.

Most of the comments came from MU-2 operators, including many companies with MU-2 fleets. One universal question was why the MU-2 needs a special training regulation when airplane types with worse safety records aren’t being singled out the way the MU-2 is.

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