[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 80 (Friday, April 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20239-20240]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10730]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-97-25]


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 of 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 May 15, 1997.


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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.
    Comemnts 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:
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 21, 1997.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions For Exemption

    Docket No.: 012SW.
    Petitioner: Robinson Helicopter Company.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 27.695.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit certification of 
hydraulically boosted controls on the Model R44 helicopter without the 
necessity of considering the jamming of a control valve as a possible 
failure signal.

    Docket No.: 28781.
    Petitioner: United Airlines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.438.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the petitioner to allow its 
second-in-command (SIC) pilots that have fewer than 100 hours of flight 
time as SIC in part 121 operations in the type of airplane being flown 
to perform takeoffs and landings at airports designated as special 
airports.

    Docket No.: 28827.
    Petitioner: Cessna Aircraft Co.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.813(e).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the installation of a door 
between passenger compartments in the Cessna Citation Model 560XL.

    Docket No.: 28855.
    Petitioner: Offshore Logistics, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.152(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow the petitioner to operate 
certain rotorcraft with a seating configuration, excluding pilot seats, 
of 10 to 19 seats without an approved flight data recorder.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 24446.
    Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.485(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow the petitioner's 
member airlines and other similarly situated part 121 air carriers to 
conduct flights with an airplane having a crew of three or more pilots 
and an additional flight crewmember.
    Grant, April 18, 1997, Exemption No. 4317F.

    Docket No.: 28479.
    Petitioner: Strong Enterprise.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit employees, 
representatives, and other volunteer experimental parachute test 
jumpers under Strong Enterprises' control to make tandem parachute 
jumps while wearing a dual-harness, dual parachute pack having at least 
one main parachute and one auxiliary parachute. The exemption also 
permits pilots in command of aircraft involved in these operations to 
allow such persons to make these parachute jumps.
    Grant, April 11, 1997, Exemption No. 6474A.

    Docket No.: 28638.
    Petitioner: U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and 
Naturalization Service.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.111(b), 91.159(a), and 
91.209(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to conduct in-flight identification, surveillance, and pursuit 
operations consistent with the assigned mission of the Immigration and 
Naturalization Service.
    Grant, April 10, 1997, Exemption No. 1533C.

    Docket No.: 28744.
    Petitioner: Boeing commercial airplane Group.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.571(e)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow the Boeing 737-
600/700/800 airplanes relief provided the airplane design complies with 
the intent of the rule utilizing an impact with a 4 pound bird at ``Vc 
at sea level or o.85 Vc at 8,000 feet, whichever is greater.
    Grant, April 8, 1997, Exemption No. 6600.

[FR Doc. 97-10730 Filed 4-24-97; 8:45 am]
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