[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 28 (Friday, February 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5056-5057]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2852]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Summary Notice No. PE-96-4]


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 February 29, 1996.

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, D.C. 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. D. Michael Smith, Office of 
Rulemaking (ARM-1), Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence 
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-7470.
    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 February 2, 1996.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 28419.
    Petitioner: United Parcel Service.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.401(b); 121.417(b)(2) and 
(3), (c)(2), and (e); 121.427(c)(1)(iii); 121.433(c)(1)(iii); 
121.440(a); 121.441(a) and (b)(1); and appendix F, part 121.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit UPS regulatory relief to 
the extent necessary to conduct a single-visit training program for its 
flight crewmembers and eventually transition 

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into the Advanced Qualification Program codified in SFAR 58.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 26223.
    Petitioner: Airbus Service Company, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.411(a)(2) and (3) and 
(b)(2); 121.413(b), (c), and (d); and appendix H, part 121.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend Exemption No. 
5302, as amended, which permits Airbus Service Company, Inc., (Airbus) 
to use the instructors listed in its original exemption who do not meet 
all of the applicable training requirements of part 121, subpart N or 
the employment requirements of part 121, appendix H, to train employees 
of part 121 certificate holders in FAA-approved simulators and in 
turbojet-powered airplanes manufactured by Airbus.

GRANT, December 29, 1995, Exemption No. 5302B
    Docket No.: 26223.
    Petitioner: Airbus Service Company, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.55(b)(2); 61.56(c)(1); 
61.57(c) and (d); 61.58(c)(1) and (d); 61.63(c)(2) and (d)(2) and (3); 
61.65(c), (e)(2) and (3) and (g); 61.67(d)(2); 61.157(d)(1) and (2) and 
(e)(1) and (2); 61.191(c); and appendix A, part 61.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend Exemption No. 
6032, which permits Airbus to use FAA-approved simulators to meet 
certain flight experience requirements of part 61.

GRANT, December 28, 1995, Exemption No. 6032A
    Docket No.: 26821.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.57(d).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend Exemption No. 
5742, as amended, which permits pilots employed by MCI to increase the 
interval between recency of flight experience requirements and to 
accomplish some recency of night experience in Level C or Level D 
simulators.

PARTIAL GRANT, December 29, 1995, Exemption No. 5742B
    Docket No.: 28274.
    Petitioner: Samoa Air.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.180.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Samoa Air to 
operate two deHavilland Twin Otter (DHC-6) airplanes without an 
approved traffic alert and collision avoidance System (TCAS I) 
installed.

DENIAL, December 29, 1995, Exemption No. 6250
    Docket No.: 28355.
    Petitioner: USAir, Inc., and Southwest Airlines Co.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.359(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit USAir and 
Southwest Airlines Co., Boeing-737 (B-737) flightcrews experiencing an 
uncommanded flight control input to deactivate the cockpit voice 
recorder (CVR) upon clearing the active runway after landing.

GRANT, December 29, 1995, Exemption No. 6387
    Docket No.: 28412.
    Petitioner: Polynesian Limited.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 129.18(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow Polynesian 
Limited to operate two deHavilland Twin Otter (DHC-6) airplanes that 
are not equipped with an approved traffic collision and avoidance 
system (TCAS I) at Pago Pago, American Samoa, after December 31, 1995.

DENIAL, December 29, 1995, Exemption No. 6386.

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