[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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