Rich Rupslauskas

Document ID: FAA-2009-0525-0005
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
Received Date: June 30 2009, at 11:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: July 1 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: June 10 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: July 10 2009, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 809e6aad
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This is comment on Rule

Airworthiness Directives; Bombardier Model CL-600-2B19 (Regional Jet Series 100 and 440) Airplanes

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This NPRM should be withdrawn as the change is not necessary and does nothing to enhance safety. The amended graphic is only detectable to a trained eye. I showed the old and new placards to 4 different people and asked them to find the difference, and none were able to see it until I pointed it out to them. If there was a problem with the graphic, we would have been aware of it long ago. There have been thousands of uses of the over wing exits during flight / in-flight crew training, maintenance, evacuation testing (mini-evac events witnessed and approved by FAA personnel), and during the numerous actual evacuations of civilians. Confusion in the use of the door has never been an issue.