[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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