[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 71 (Monday, April 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18162-18163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9575]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-96-19]


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.

DATES: Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket 
number involved and must be received on or before April 24, 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, DC 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 Rule 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:
Fred Haynes (202) 267-3939 or Angela Anderson (202) 267-9681 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 April 9, 1997.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 28875.
    Petitioner: Frontier Flying Service, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.465(b)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought: to permit the petitioner to schedule 
its aircraft dispatchers for more than 10 consecutive hours of duty.

    Docket No.: 28872.
    Petitioner: Frontier Flying Service, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.623.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the petitioner to comply 
with the alternate airport requirements applicable to supplemental air 
carriers and commercial operators, rather than those alternate airport 
requirements applicable to a domestic air carrier.

    Docket No.: 28871.
    Petitioner: Frontier Flying Service, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.593.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the petitioner to allow its 
airplanes to remain on the ground, at intermediate airports, for more 
than one hour without receiving a new dispatch release.

    Docket No.: 28874.
    Petitioner: Frontier Flying Service, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.161.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit petitioner to operate two-
engine airplanes over a route that contains a point farther than 1 hour 
flying time from an adequate airport.

    Docket No.: 28873.
    Petitioner: Frontier Flying Service, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.617.
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow petitioner's airplanes to 
takeoff from airports where the weather conditions are below landing 
minimums without specifying an alternate airport within one hour from 
the departure airport at normal cruising speed with one engine 
inoperative.
    Docket No.: 28876.
    Petitioner: Frontier Flying Service, Inc.
    (1) Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.613, 121.619(a), 
121.625.
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow petitioner to dispatch 
airplanes under instrument flight rules, where conditional language in 
the remarks section of the weather forecast state that the weather at 
the destination, alternate or both airports will be below the required 
weather minimums when the main body of the weather forecast or weather 
report states that the weather will be at or above the authorized 
weather minimums.
    (2) Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.3(a), 61.3(c), 63.3(a), 
121.383(a)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow petitioner to establish 
special procedures that would enable it to issue to its flight 
crewmembers, on a temporary basis, confirmation of an individual FAA 
issued crewmember certificate based upon information contained in 
petitioner's approved records system.
    (3) Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.652(a), 652(c).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow a pilot in command (PIC) 
conducting operations under part 121 to perform an instrument approach 
procedure to the weather minimums, prescribed by Air Transport 
Association Exemption No. 5549B, to conduct an instrument approach 
during the first 100 hours of service as PIC, in the type airplane he 
or she is operating, using an alternate means approved by the 
Administrator.
    (4) Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.583(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit FAA air traffic controllers 
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certain technical representatives to be added to the list of persons 
authorized to ride in the cockpit observer's seat of all-cargo 
airplanes when those aircraft do not meet the passenger-carrying 
requirements, except as described in 121.583 (b), (c), and (d).

[FR Doc. 97-9575 Filed 4-11-97; 8:45 am]
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