Criteria for Approving Flight Courses for Educational Assistance Programs

This document adopts as a final rule, with changes, an interim final rule amending the educational assistance and educational benefit regulations of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The interim final rule revised the criteria to be used in approving flight courses for the education benefits programs VA administers. In large part, those amendments brought the approval criteria into agreement with various provisions of the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1996 and with the revised regulations of the Federal Aviation Administration. Without the changes made by the interim final rule, VA would not be able to provide educational assistance for veterans to attend affected flight courses. This document makes changes to the interim final rule to clarify certain provisions and to reflect new statutory changes.