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§2245 Use of Aircraft for Proficiency Flying: Limitation

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › CHAPTER 134 — MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › SUBCHAPTER I — MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORITIES, PROHIBITIONS, AND LIMITATIONS ON THE USE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS › § 2245

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Military aircraft cannot be used by service members for practice flying unless the Defense Secretary sets rules that allow it. Those rules may not force someone to do practice flying unless it is needed to keep them ready for a combat assignment. The rules also may not let someone do practice flying if they are in a training course that lasts 90 days or more. Proficiency flying means flying done under official orders by a rated or designated aircrew member who is serving in a non‑flying job or a job where flying skills are not normally kept up.

Title 10, §2245

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)An aircraft under the jurisdiction of a military department may not be used by a member of the armed forces for the purpose of proficiency flying except in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.

(b)Such regulations—

(1)may not require proficiency flying by a member except to the extent required for the member to maintain flying proficiency in anticipation of the member’s assignment to combat operations; and

(2)may not permit proficiency flying in the case of a member who is assigned to a course of instruction of 90 days or more.

(c)In this section, the term “proficiency flying” means flying performed under competent orders by a rated or designated member of the armed forces while serving in a non-aviation assignment or in an assignment in which skills would normally not be maintained in the performance of assigned duties.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. L. 101–165, title IX, § 9006, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1130, which was set out as a note under section 2241 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 101–510, § 1481(e)(3).

Amendments

2008—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 110–181 amended subsec. (c) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (c) read as follows: “In this section, the term ‘proficiency flying’ has the meaning given that term in Department of Defense Directive 1340.4.”