[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10424-10425]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5456]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-98-1]


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 it to 
improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspects 
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 March 23, 1998.

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:
Tawana Matthews (202) 267-9783 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, DC., on February 25, 1998.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions For Exemption

    Docket No.: 29069.
    Petitioner: AMR Eagle, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.434, 121.440, 121.441, and 
121.683.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit pilots trained and 
qualified under one certificate holder's approved program to act as 
pilot for another certificate holder without being qualified under the 
latter certificate holder's approved program.

    Docket No.: 29041.
    Petitioner: Estumkeda, Ltd.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 47.65.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the issuance of a Dealer's 
Aircraft registration Certificate to Estumkeda, Ltd.

    Docket No.: 29061.
    Petitioner: Prairie Cardiovascular Center, Ltd.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.9 and 91.531.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit certain qualified pilots of 
Dessault Mystere-Falcon 10 airplanes to operate those airplanes without 
a pilot who is designated as second in command.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 26656.
    Petitioner: Missouri Department of Transportation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 156.5(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to use up to $75,000 of Airport Improvement Program State Block Grant 
Pilot Program annual funds issued during fiscal years 1997 and 1998 for 
program administrative costs. GRANT, January 21, 1998, Exemption No. 
5364B.

    Docket No.: 29093.
    Petitioner: Grand Aire Express, Inc.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to operate its Dassault/Sud Falcon 20D (Falcon 20) (Registration No. 
N618GA, Serial No. 211), Falcon 20 (Registration No. N619GA, Serial No. 
215), and Hamburger Flugzeugbau HFB-320 (Registration No. N171GA, 
Serial No. 1039) aircraft without a TSO-C112 Mode S transponder 
installed. GRANT, January 21, 1998, Exemption No. 6723.

    Docket No.: 26533.
    Petitioner: Jump Shack.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to allow its employees, representatives, and other volunteer 
experimental parachute test jumpers under its direct supervision and 
control to make intentional tandem parachute jumps and permits pilots 
in command of aircraft involved in these operations to allow such 
persons to make parachute jumps wearing a dual-harness, dual-parachute 
pack having at least one main parachute and one approved auxiliary 
(reserve) parachute packed in accordance with 14 CFR part 105.43(a). 
GRANT, January 22, 1998, Exemption No. 5448C.

    Docket No.: 26063.
    Petitioner: Reflection Training Center-Dulles.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.411(a)(2), (a)(3), and 
(b)(2); and 121.413(b), (c), and (d); appendix H to part 121; and 
135.337(a)(2), (a)(3), and (b)(2); and 135.339(a)(2), (b), and (c).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to use its qualified instructor pilots and check airmen to conduct 
training and checking for certain part 121 and 135 certificates 
holders' pilots and flight engineers in airplanes manufactured by 
British Aerospace, Inc., or in FAA-approved Level C simulators without 
those instructors and check airmen meeting all the applicable training 
requirements of parts 121 and 135 and without the petitioner holding an 
air carrier operating certificate. GRANT, January 30, 1998, Exemption 
No. 5190D.

    Docket No.: 26183.
    Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR part 121, appendix H.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit member airlines 
of the Air Transport Association of America and other similarly 
situated part 121 certificate holders to continue to use Level C 
simulators for pilot-in-command initial and upgrade training and 
checking. GRANT, January 30, 1998, Exemption No. 5400C.

    Docket No.: 25286.
    Petitioner: United States Parachute Association.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.607 and 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to allow parachutists who are foreign nationals to participate in U.S. 
National Skydiving Championship events sponsored by the USPA without 
meeting the parachute equipment and

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packing requirements of 14 CFR part 105.43(a). In addition, that 
exemption allows the carriage of up to 40 parachutists in Douglas DC-3/
C-47 aircraft during sport parachuting activities sponsored by the 
petitioner provided certain conditions and limitations are met. GRANT, 
January 30, 1998, Exemption No. 4946F.

    Docket No: 25336.
    Petitioner: United Airlines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.697(a)(3)(b)(c), and (d); 
and 121.709(b)(3).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to use computerized signatures to satisfy the airworthiness release 
signature requirements of part 121 in lieu of physical signatures. 
GRANT, February 3, 1998, Exemption No. 5121E.

    Docket No.: 28422.
    Petitioner: Broward County, Florida Public Works Department.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 137.53(c)(2).
    Description of Relief South/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to conduct aerial applications of insecticide materials from a 
Beechcraft C-45H aircraft without the aircraft being equipped with a 
device that is capable of jettisoning at least one-half of the 
aircraft's maximum authorized load of agricultural materials within 45 
seconds when operating over a congested area. GRANT, February 4, 1998, 
Exemption No. 6470A.

    Docket No: 20049.
    Petiioner: T.B.M., Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.529(a)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to operate McDonnell Douglas DC-6 and DC-7 aircraft without a flight 
engineer during flightcrew training, ferry operations, and test flights 
that are conducted to prepare for firefighting operations conducted 
under 14 CFR part 137. GRANT, February 4, 1998, Exemption No. 2956J.

    Docket No: 29084.
    Petioner: American Trans Air, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.310(m).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to operate five foreign-registered Lockheed L-1011-385-3 aircraft that 
have more than 60 feet between emergency exits. GRANT, February 5, 
1998, Exemption No. 6725.

Petition For Exemption

    Docket No.: 29129.
    Petioner: Hyushin Aviation Complex, Russia.
    Regulations Affected: 25.1435(b)(1).
    Description of Petition: In lieu of the requirements of 14 CFR 
25.143(b)(1) for a complete hydraulic system proof pressure test on the 
airplane Ilyushin proposes to conduct a combination of the following 
tests: (i) Test of the complete hydraulic system at relief valve 
opening pressure 24 +/-5 atmospheres (atm), (ii) Test of the hydraulic 
system components at 1.5 times operating pressure (315 atm) per 
Sec. 25.143(a)(2), and (iii) Test of the complete hydraulic system 
during flight and ground tests at operating pressure.

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