98-26300. Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Petitions Received; Dispositions of Petitions Issued  

  • [Federal Register Volume 63, Number 190 (Thursday, October 1, 1998)]
    [Notices]
    [Pages 52788-52790]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 98-26300]
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
    
    Federal Aviation Administration
    [Summary Notice No. PE-98-19]
    
    
    Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Petitions Received; 
    Dispositions of Petitions Issued
    
    AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
    
    ACTION: Notice of petitions for exemption received and of dispositions 
    of prior petitions.
    
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    SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the 
    application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 
    CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions 
    seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal Aviation 
    Regulations (14 CFR Chapter I), dispositions of certain petitions 
    previously received, and corrections. The purpose of this notice is to 
    improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of 
    FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the 
    inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to 
    affect the legal status of any petition or its final disposition.
    
    DATE: Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket 
    number involved and must be received on or before October 22, 1998.
    
    ADDRESS: Send comments on any petition in triplicate to: Federal 
    Aviation Administration, Office of the Chief Counsel, Attn: Rule Docket 
    (AGC-200), Petition Docket No. ____, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
    Washington, D.C. 20591.
        Comments may also be sent electronically to the following internet 
    address: [email protected]
        The petition, any comments received, and a copy of any final 
    disposition are filed in the assigned regulatory docket and are 
    available for examination in the Rules Docket (AGC-200), Room 915G, FAA 
    Headquarters Building (FOB 10A), 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
    Washington, D.C. 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.
    
    
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    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brenda Eichelberger (202) 267-7470 or 
    Terry Stubblefield (202) 267-7624, Office of Rulemaking (ARM-1), 
    Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
    Washington, DC 20591.
        This notice is published pursuant to paragraphs (c), (e), and (g) 
    of Sec. 11.27 of Part 11 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 
    Part 11).
    
        Issued in Washington, D.C., on September 25, 1998.
    Donald P. Byrne,
    Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.
    
    Petitions For Exemption
    
        Docket No.: 29212.
        Petitioner: Comair Aviation Academy.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 141 paragraph 4, appendix I.
        Description of Relief Sought: To permit Comair to allow its 
    students to add a single-engine airplane rating to a commercial pilot 
    certificate with a multiengine rating and add a multiengine rating to a 
    pilot certificate with a single-engine rating without accomplishing the 
    flight training requirements set forth in appendix D to part 141.
    
        Docket No.: 25024.
        Petitioner: University of Illinois.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 141.55(d) and 141.63(b).
        Description of Relief Sought: To allow the UI to hold examining 
    authority for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved training 
    courses that do not specify the minimum ground and flight training time 
    requirements of part 141.
    
        Docket No.: 29305.
        Petitioner: Wayfarer Aviation, Inc.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.299(a).
        Description of Relief Sought: To permit Wayfarer pilots to 
    accomplish a line operational evaluation in a Level C or Level D flight 
    simulator in lieu of a line check in an aircraft.
    
        Docket No.: 29307.
        Petitioner: Hughes Flying Service, Inc.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.299(a).
        Description of Relief Sought: To permit Hughes pilots to accomplish 
    a line operational evaluation in a Level C or Level D flight simulator 
    in lieu of a line check in an aircraft.
    
    Dispositions of Petitions
    
        Docket No.: 28696.
        Petitioner: Federal Express Corporation.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.1423(c).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the 
    accommodation of supernumerary animal handlers on DC-10 and MD-11 
    airplanes. Relief is sought from a condition relating to decompression 
    alert notification in the lavatory, and from a condition relating to 
    accessibility of Public Address (PA) messages in the lavatory.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Denied, August 28, 1998, Exemption No. 6652A
        Docket No.: 22872.
        Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.157(a); item I(b) of 
    appendix A to part 61; 121.424(a), (b), and (d)(1); item I(a) of 
    appendix E to part 121; and item I(b) of appendix F to part 121 of 
    Title 14.
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit ATA member 
    airlines and other qualifying part 121 certificate holders to conduct 
    training and checking of pilots on airplanes that require two flight 
    crewmembers for the required preflight inspection, both interior and 
    exterior, using approved advanced pictorial means.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, September 8, 1998, Exemption No. 4416G
        Docket No.: 27007.
        Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.311(b).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow ATA-member 
    airlines and other similarly situated part 121 operators to permit 
    qualified flight attendants not required by 121.391(c) to perform 
    duties related to the safety of the airplane and its occupants during 
    aircraft movement on the surface.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, September 8, 1998, Exemption No. 5533C
        Docket No.: 29304.
        Petitioner: Rotorcraft Leasing Company, L.L.C.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit RCL to operate 
    its Bell 206 helicopters without a TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponder 
    installed on each of those helicopters.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, September 11, 1998, Exemption No. 6810
        Docket No.: 28706.
        Petitioner: National Warplane Museum.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.315, 119.5(g), and 
    119.21(a).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit NWM to carry 
    passengers on local flights for compensation or hire in its limited 
    category Boeing B-17 aircraft in support of the NWM's fundraising 
    efforts.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, September 17, 1998, Exemption No. 6565A
        Docket No.: 29197.
        Petitioner: The Stallion 51 Corporation.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.315.
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Stallion 51 to 
    provide initial and recurrent training, orientation flights, and 
    training under contract with the U.S. military in its two North 
    American P-51TF (TF-51) airplanes certificated as limited category 
    civil aircraft.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, September 17, 1998, Exemption No. 6811
        Docket No.: 12227.
        Petitioner: National Business Aviation Association, Inc.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.409(e) and 91.501(a).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit NBAA members to 
    operate small civil airplanes and helicopters of U.S. registry under 
    the operating rules of 91.503 through 91.535 and to select an 
    inspection program as described in 91.409(f).
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, September 17, 1998, Exemption No. 1637T
        Docket No.: 29144.
        Petitioner: American Air Services, Inc. dba Executive Jet 
    Management, Inc.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.45(f).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Executive Jet 
    Management to assign copies of its Inspection Procedures Manual (IPM) 
    to key individuals within its departments and key areas within its shop 
    and functionally place an adequate number of its IPM for access to all 
    employees, rather than provide a copy of the IPM for each of its 
    supervisory and inspection personnel.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, July 31, 1998, Exemption No. 6806
        Docket No.: 28492.
        Petitioner: Varig S.A.
    
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        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.47(b).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Varig to 
    substitute the instrument calibration standards of the Instituto 
    Nacional de Metrologia, Normalizacao e Qualidade Industrial (INMETRO), 
    Brazil's national standards laboratory, for the calibration standards 
    of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
    formerly the National Bureau of Standards, to test its inspection and 
    test equipment.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, July 31, 1998, Exemption No. 6807
        Docket No.: 28546.
        Petitioner: The Ranch Parachute Club, Ltd.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit nonstudent 
    parachutists who are foreign nationals to participate in parachute-
    jumping events sponsored by The Ranch at its facilities without 
    complying with the parachute equipment and packing requirements of 14 
    CFR.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, August 31, 1998, Exemption No. 6494A
        Docket No.: 28649.
        Petitioner: Motores Rolls-Royce Limitada.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.47(b).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Motores Rolls-
    Royce to use the calibration standards of the Instituto Nacional de 
    Metrologia, Normalizacao e Qualidade Industrial, Brazil's national 
    standards organization, in lieu of the calibration standards of the 
    U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the 
    National Bureau of Standards, to test its inspection and test 
    equipment.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, July 31, 1998, Exemption No. 6545A
        Docket No.: 28947.
        Petitioner: US Airways.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.45(f).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit US Airways to 
    make available one copy of its repair station Inspection Procedures 
    Manual (IPM) to all its supervisory and inspection personnel, rather 
    than providing a copy of the manual to each individual, subject to 
    certain conditions and limitations. That exemption expired on July 31, 
    1998; therefore, the FAA will process US Airways' extension request as 
    a petition for a new exemption.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, July 11, 1997, Exemption No. 6655
        Docket No.: 23869.
        Petitioner: The Uninsured Relative Workshop, Inc.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit employees, 
    representatives, and other volunteer experimental parachute test 
    jumpers under TURWI'S control to make tandem parachute jumps while 
    wearing a dual-harness, dual-parachute pack that has at least one main 
    parachute and one approved auxiliary parachute. The exemption also 
    permits pilots in command of aircraft involved in these operations to 
    allow such persons to make these parachute jumps.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, September 18, 1998, Exemption No. 4943K
        Docket No.: 26378.
        Petitioner: Daimler-Benz Aerospace, MTU Maintenance GmbH.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.47(c)(1).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit MTU-H to extend 
    its certification privileges as an FAA-approved foreign repair station 
    to contract the maintenance and repair of engine components of 
    International Aero Engines AG Model V2500 turbine engines to facilities 
    that are not FAA-certificated repair stations, U.S.-original equipment 
    manufacturers, or approved manufacturing licensees for such engines.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, July 31, 1998, Exemption No 5337C
        Docket No.: 28954.
        Petitioner: Heart of Georgia Technical Institute.
        Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 65.17(a), 65.19(b), 65.75(a) 
    and (b), and 183.11(b).
        Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit HGTI to: (1) 
    Administer the FAA oral and practical mechanical tests to students at 
    times and places identified in HGTI's FAA-approved aviation Maintenance 
    Technical School (AMTS) Policies, Procedures, and Curriculum Handbook; 
    (2) conduct oral and practical mechanical tests as an integral part of 
    the education process rather than conducting the tests after students 
    successfully complete the written mechanic tests; (3) allow applicants 
    to apply for retesting within 30 days after failure without presenting 
    a signed statement certifying additional instruction in the failed 
    area; and (4) administer the Aviation Mechanic-General (AMG) written 
    test to students immediately after they successfully complete the 
    general curriculum but before they meet the experience requirements of 
    65.77.
    
    Disposition, Date, Exemption No.
    
    Grant, August 27, 1998, Exemption No. 6805
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Document Information

Published:
10/01/1998
Department:
Federal Aviation Administration
Entry Type:
Notice
Action:
Notice of petitions for exemption received and of dispositions of prior petitions.
Document Number:
98-26300
Dates:
Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket number involved and must be received on or before October 22, 1998.
Pages:
52788-52790 (3 pages)
Docket Numbers:
Summary Notice No. PE-98-19
PDF File:
98-26300.pdf