[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26609-26611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12651]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-97-28]
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 on 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 June 3, 1997.
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 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, DC. 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Heather Thorson (202) 267-7470 or Angela Anderson (202) 267-9681,
Office
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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 May 9, 1997.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.
Petitions for Exemption
Docket No.: 28861.
Petitioner: Vertical Flite.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.119 (b) and (c).
Description of Relief Sought: To permit petitioner to operate Air
and Space 18A heliplanes below the minimum altitude requirements while
conducting aerial photography or contracted ``police and highway''
flights in visual meteorological conditions.
Docket No.: 28881.
Petitioner: McDonnell Douglas.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.785(d), 25.807(c)(1),
25.857(e), 25.1447(c)(1).
Description of Relief Sought: To permit carriage of up to four (4)
supernumeraries in a Courier Area (aft of the cockpit door and forward
of the new rigid cargo barrier), and to allow carriage of up to two (2)
supernumeraries in a Courier Module area (aft of the cockpit door and
forward of the 9g crash net) on the Model DC-10 freighter aircraft
operating with Class E Cargo Compartments.
Docket No.: 28479.
Petitioner: Strong Enterprises.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
Description of Relief Sought: To amend petitioner's current
exemption which allows employees, representatives, and other volunteer
experimental parachute test jumpers under Strong's control to make
tandem parachute jumps while wearing a dual-harness, dual-parachute
pack having at least one main parachute and one approved auxiliary
parachute. The requested amendment would modify portions of the
conditions and limitations contained in the exemption to include the
use of a dual-harness, dual-parachute pack by tandem instructors who
are certified by Strong but are not under the direct supervision of
strong.
Docket No.: 28879.
Petitioner: Classic Helicopter Corporation.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 119.71(b).
Description of Relief Sought: To allow Mr. Nicholas Ledington-
Fischer, who holds a commercial pilot certificate, to continue serving
as Director of Operations without having an instrument rating.
Docket No.: 26302.
Petitioner: FlightSafety International.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR appendix H to part 121,
135.293, 135.297, 135.299(2), 135.337(f) (1) and (2), 135.338(f) (1)
and, 135.339(c), and 142.53(b).
Description of Relief Sought: To permit petitioner to continue to
use its qualified instructor pilots or pilot check airmen in approved
simulators to train and check the pilots of part 135 certificate
holders that contract with FSI for training. Petitioner requests an
amendment to the current exemption to the extent necessary to permit
FSI to substitute the line observation requirements of 14 CFR
Sec. 142.53(b) for clients in part 135 nonscheduled operations, in lieu
of the requirements of 135.33(f) (1) and (2) and 135.338(f) (1) and
(2).
Docket No.: 012SW.
Petitioner: Frank D. Robinson.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 27.695.
Description of Relief Sought: To allow certification of
hydraulically boosted controls on the R44 without the necessity of
considering the jamming of a control valve as a possible single
failure.
Dispositions of Petitions
Docket No.: 27441.
Petitioner: Department of the Army.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 45.29(b)(3).
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit petitioner to
use 9-inch aircraft nationality and registration markings in lieu of
12-inch markings on its Bell Model 206B3 rotorcraft.
Grant, May 6, 1997, Exemption No. 5761B
Docket No.: 27122.
Petitioner: Air Tractor, Inc.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.31(a)(1).
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit petitioner and
pilots of Air Tractor model AT-802 and AT-802A airplanes to operate
those airplanes without holding a type rating, although the maximum
gross weight of the airplanes exceeds 12,500 pounds.
Grant, May 2, 1997, Exemption No. 5651C
Docket No.: 26599.
Petitioner: Regional Airline Association.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.203.
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow RAA-member
airlines to temporarily operate certain U.S. registered aircraft in
domestic airline operations without the certificates of airworthiness
or registration onboard the aircraft.
Grant, April 24, 1997, Exemption No. 5515C
Docket No.: 28545.
Petitioner: United Airlines.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.135(a)(3).
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow petitioner to
use electronic digital technology to present certain maintenance
information and instructions to ground operations and management
personnel without meeting the requirement to have the date of the last
revision on each page of the information and instructions.
Grant, April 28, 1997, Exemption No. 6612
Docket No.: 25748.
Petitioner: Popular Rotorcraft Association, Inc.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.319(a) (1) and (2).
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit petitioner and
its member flight instructors to conduct pilot and flight instructor
training in an experimental gyroplane for compensation or hire.
Grant, April 30, 1997, Exemption No. 5209D
Docket No.: 25210.
Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America (ATA).
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 63.39(b) (1) and (2), and
121.425(a)(2) (i) and (ii).
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition:
To allow member airlines of ATA and other qualifying part 121
certificate holders to meet the qualification requirements of flight
engineer training programs approved in part 121 by permitting
applicants in training for that flight check (1) to take the airplane
preflight inspection portion of the flight check using an advanced
pictorial means instead of the airplane, and (2) to take the normal
procedures portion of that flight check in an approved flight
simulation device. In addition, the exemption allows applicants they
are training in preparation for the flight engineer practical test to
take the normal procedures portion of that test in an approved flight
simulation device.
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Grant, April 30, 1997, Exemption No. 4901E
Docket No: 28650.
Petitioner: University of North Dakota.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 141.15.
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit petitioner to
provide FAA-approved part 141 ground and flight training courses to
U.S. citizens at FAA-approved part 141 satellite training facilities
located outside of the United States.
Denial, April 28, 1997, Exemption No. 6610
Docket No: 28656.
Petitioner: University of North Dakota.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.187(b).
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit petitioner to
use flight instructors in its flight instructor course who have held a
flight instructor certificate for less than 24 months preceding the
date of instruction given.
Denial, April 28, 1997, Exemption No. 6613
Docket No: 28705.
Petitioner: Atlantic Aero, Inc., and Mid-Atlantic Freight, Inc.
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.51(c)(3).
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow petitioners'
pilots to log flight time as second-in-command (SIC) when that flight
time is in certain turbopropeller-powered, single-engine aircraft
during which more than one pilot is not required by either the type
certificate of the aircraft or the regulations under which the flight
is conducted.
Denial, April 28, 1997, Exemption No. 6613
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