98-33296. Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Petitions Received; Dispositions of Petitions Issued

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 241 (Wednesday, December 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69355-69356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-33296]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-98-25]


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.

DATES: Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket 
number involved and must be received on or before December 31, 1998.

ADDRESSES: 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 interest 
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 [phone].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brenda Eichelberger [phone] or 
Terry Stubblefield [phone], 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 December 10, 1998.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 29306.
    Petitioner: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.57 (a) and (b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow Gulfstream 
pilots employed as crewmembers to use Gulfstream GII, GIII, GIV, or GV 
aircraft or a level B, C, or D simulator to meet the recent takeoff and 
landing flight experience requirement.


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    Docket No.: 28927.
    Petitioner: Arctic Air Alaska, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.203.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Arctic Air 
Alaska, Inc. to conduct survey flights in remote areas at an altitude 
of less than 500 feet above ground level.

    Docket No.: 29259.
    Petitioner: Continental Airlines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 119.67(c)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Mr. Mark James 
Moran to serve as the director of maintenance at Continental without 
holding a mechanic certificate with airframe and powerplant ratings.

    Docket No.: 29331.
    Petitioner: Corporate Wings.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.299(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Corporate Wings 
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.: 29282.
    Petitioner: The Boeing Company.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.785(d), 25,807(c)(1), 
25.857(e), and 25.1447(c)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow carriage of up 
to four supernumeraries forward of a rigid cargo barrier (or two 
supernumeraries forward of a 9g crash net), on Boeing MDC Model MD-10 
freighter airplanes with Class E cargo compartments.

    Docket No.: 29409.
    Petitioner: Bombardier Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.1435(b)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit type 
certification of the DHC-8 Series 400 in performing hydraulic system 
tests, using the alternate method in NPRM 96-6, proposal 12.

    Docket No.: 29348.
    Petitioner: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.1435(b)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit partial 
exemption from the requirements for the hydraulic power system on the 
Boeing Model 767-400ER airplane, a derivative of the Model 767-200, by 
a combination of testing to 3400 +0/-100 psig and applicable similarity 
to the 767-200, which was tested to 4500 psig.

Disposition of Petitions

    Docket No.: 29175.
    Petitioner: Associated Air Center.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.813(e).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit installation of 
interior doors between passenger compartments, on a Boeing 737-300 
airplane.

Denial, December 2, 1998, Exemption No. 6846

[FR Doc. 98-33296 Filed 12-15-98; 8:45 am]
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