[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 226 (Monday, November 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62665-62666]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-30775]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-97-58]


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 December 15, 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, D.C. 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Heather Thorson (202) 267-7470 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 November 18, 1997.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 28971.
    Petitioner: AirStar Helicopters, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 93.316(b).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the petitioner to add two 
McDonnell Douglas MD 600N NOTAR helicopters to its 14 CFR part 135 
operations specifications and use these aircraft in the Grand Canyon 
Special Flight Rules Area.

    Docket No.: 29041.
    Petitioner: Skydive Chicago, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the petitioner to allow 
individuals who have completed a course of instruction in main 
parachute packing administered by a Federal Aviation Administration-
certificated parachute rigger to pack main parachutes for others to 
make parachute jumps.

    Docket No.: 29025.
    Petitioner: Nortwest Airlines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.434(c)(1)(ii).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the petitioner to use an 
appropriately qualified and authorized check airman in lieu of a 
Federal Aviation Administration inspector to observe a qualifying pilot 
in command who is performing prescribed duties during at least one 
flight leg that includes a takeoff and a landing when completing 
initial or upgrade training.

    Docket No.: 29003.
    Petitioner: Columbia Helicopters, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.175(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the petitioner to operate 
its Boeing Vertol/Kawasaki Vertol 107 rotocraft in passenger-carrying 
operations conducted in daylight under visual flight rules without 
those rotocraft having approved airborne weather radar equipment 
installed.

    Docket No.: 142CE.
    Petitioner: Sino Swearingen Aircraft Company.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 23.3(d).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the petitioner to type 
certificate its SJ30-2, a design powered by twin turbofan engines, in 
the commuter category.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 26101.
    Petitioner: America West Airlines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 93.123.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to operate four flights (two arrivals and two departures) at Washington 
National Airport.

Grant, November 4, 1997, Exemption No. 5133H

    Docket No.: 28924.
    Petitioner: Stunts Adventure Equipment.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the petitioner to allow its 
employees, representatives, and other volunteer experimental parachute 
test jumpers under its direction and control to make tandem parachute 
jumps while wearing a duel-harness, duel-parachute pack having at least 
one main parachute and one approved auxiliary parachute packed in 
accordance with 14 CFR 105.43(a). This exemption also permits PICs of 
aircraft involved in these operations to allow such persons to make 
these parachute jumps subject to certain conditions and limitations.

Grant, October 24, 1997, Exemption No. 6693

    Docket No.: 29045
    Petitioner: Gail Force Express.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2)
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to operate its 14 twin-engine aircraft under part 135 without a TSO-
C112 (Mode S) transponder installed.

Grant, November 4, 1997, Exemption No. 6697

    Docket No.: 29028.
    Petitioner: Mobil Business Resources Corporation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to operate certain Bell Model 206 and Sikorsky S-76 helicopters without 
a TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponder installed.

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Grant, November 6, 1997, Exemption No. 6696

    Docket No.: 22441.
    Petitioner: United Airlines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.433(c)(1)(iii), 
121.440(a), 121.441(a)(1) and (b)(1), appendix F to part 121 and 
Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 58, paragraph 6(b)(3)(ii)(A).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to combine recurrent flight and ground training and proficiency checks 
for United Airlines, Inc.'s pilots in command, second in command, and 
flight engineers in a single annual training and proficiency evaluation 
program, i.e., a single-visit training program.

Grant, November 6, 1997, Exemption No. 3451K

    Docket No.: 26952.
    Petitioner: Regional Airline Association.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.3 (a) and (c).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: Permits the establishment 
of special procedures that enable an operator to issue to its flight 
crewmembers, on a temporary basis, confirmation of any required 
crewmember certificate based on information contained in the operator's 
approved record system.

Grant, November 6, 1997, Exemption No. 5560B

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