[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 190 (Thursday, October 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52788-52790]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26300]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-98-19]


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.

DATE: Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket 
number involved and must be received on or before October 22, 1998.

ADDRESS: 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.


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brenda Eichelberger (202) 267-7470 or 
Terry Stubblefield (202) 267-7624, 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 September 25, 1998.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions For Exemption

    Docket No.: 29212.
    Petitioner: Comair Aviation Academy.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 141 paragraph 4, appendix I.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Comair to allow its 
students to add a single-engine airplane rating to a commercial pilot 
certificate with a multiengine rating and add a multiengine rating to a 
pilot certificate with a single-engine rating without accomplishing the 
flight training requirements set forth in appendix D to part 141.

    Docket No.: 25024.
    Petitioner: University of Illinois.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 141.55(d) and 141.63(b).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow the UI to hold examining 
authority for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved training 
courses that do not specify the minimum ground and flight training time 
requirements of part 141.

    Docket No.: 29305.
    Petitioner: Wayfarer Aviation, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.299(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Wayfarer pilots to 
accomplish a line operational evaluation in a Level C or Level D flight 
simulator in lieu of a line check in an aircraft.

    Docket No.: 29307.
    Petitioner: Hughes Flying Service, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.299(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Hughes pilots to accomplish 
a line operational evaluation in a Level C or Level D flight simulator 
in lieu of a line check in an aircraft.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 28696.
    Petitioner: Federal Express Corporation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.1423(c).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the 
accommodation of supernumerary animal handlers on DC-10 and MD-11 
airplanes. Relief is sought from a condition relating to decompression 
alert notification in the lavatory, and from a condition relating to 
accessibility of Public Address (PA) messages in the lavatory.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Denied, August 28, 1998, Exemption No. 6652A
    Docket No.: 22872.
    Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.157(a); item I(b) of 
appendix A to part 61; 121.424(a), (b), and (d)(1); item I(a) of 
appendix E to part 121; and item I(b) of appendix F to part 121 of 
Title 14.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit ATA member 
airlines and other qualifying part 121 certificate holders to conduct 
training and checking of pilots on airplanes that require two flight 
crewmembers for the required preflight inspection, both interior and 
exterior, using approved advanced pictorial means.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, September 8, 1998, Exemption No. 4416G
    Docket No.: 27007.
    Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.311(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow ATA-member 
airlines and other similarly situated part 121 operators to permit 
qualified flight attendants not required by 121.391(c) to perform 
duties related to the safety of the airplane and its occupants during 
aircraft movement on the surface.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, September 8, 1998, Exemption No. 5533C
    Docket No.: 29304.
    Petitioner: Rotorcraft Leasing Company, L.L.C.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit RCL to operate 
its Bell 206 helicopters without a TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponder 
installed on each of those helicopters.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, September 11, 1998, Exemption No. 6810
    Docket No.: 28706.
    Petitioner: National Warplane Museum.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.315, 119.5(g), and 
119.21(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit NWM to carry 
passengers on local flights for compensation or hire in its limited 
category Boeing B-17 aircraft in support of the NWM's fundraising 
efforts.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, September 17, 1998, Exemption No. 6565A
    Docket No.: 29197.
    Petitioner: The Stallion 51 Corporation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.315.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Stallion 51 to 
provide initial and recurrent training, orientation flights, and 
training under contract with the U.S. military in its two North 
American P-51TF (TF-51) airplanes certificated as limited category 
civil aircraft.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, September 17, 1998, Exemption No. 6811
    Docket No.: 12227.
    Petitioner: National Business Aviation Association, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.409(e) and 91.501(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit NBAA members to 
operate small civil airplanes and helicopters of U.S. registry under 
the operating rules of 91.503 through 91.535 and to select an 
inspection program as described in 91.409(f).

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, September 17, 1998, Exemption No. 1637T
    Docket No.: 29144.
    Petitioner: American Air Services, Inc. dba Executive Jet 
Management, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.45(f).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Executive Jet 
Management to assign copies of its Inspection Procedures Manual (IPM) 
to key individuals within its departments and key areas within its shop 
and functionally place an adequate number of its IPM for access to all 
employees, rather than provide a copy of the IPM for each of its 
supervisory and inspection personnel.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, July 31, 1998, Exemption No. 6806
    Docket No.: 28492.
    Petitioner: Varig S.A.

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    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.47(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Varig to 
substitute the instrument calibration standards of the Instituto 
Nacional de Metrologia, Normalizacao e Qualidade Industrial (INMETRO), 
Brazil's national standards laboratory, for the calibration standards 
of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
formerly the National Bureau of Standards, to test its inspection and 
test equipment.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, July 31, 1998, Exemption No. 6807
    Docket No.: 28546.
    Petitioner: The Ranch Parachute Club, Ltd.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit nonstudent 
parachutists who are foreign nationals to participate in parachute-
jumping events sponsored by The Ranch at its facilities without 
complying with the parachute equipment and packing requirements of 14 
CFR.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, August 31, 1998, Exemption No. 6494A
    Docket No.: 28649.
    Petitioner: Motores Rolls-Royce Limitada.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.47(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Motores Rolls-
Royce to use the calibration standards of the Instituto Nacional de 
Metrologia, Normalizacao e Qualidade Industrial, Brazil's national 
standards organization, in lieu of the calibration standards of the 
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the 
National Bureau of Standards, to test its inspection and test 
equipment.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, July 31, 1998, Exemption No. 6545A
    Docket No.: 28947.
    Petitioner: US Airways.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.45(f).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit US Airways to 
make available one copy of its repair station Inspection Procedures 
Manual (IPM) to all its supervisory and inspection personnel, rather 
than providing a copy of the manual to each individual, subject to 
certain conditions and limitations. That exemption expired on July 31, 
1998; therefore, the FAA will process US Airways' extension request as 
a petition for a new exemption.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, July 11, 1997, Exemption No. 6655
    Docket No.: 23869.
    Petitioner: The Uninsured Relative Workshop, Inc.
    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 TURWI'S control to make tandem parachute jumps while 
wearing a dual-harness, dual-parachute pack that has at least one main 
parachute and one approved auxiliary parachute. The exemption also 
permits pilots in command of aircraft involved in these operations to 
allow such persons to make these parachute jumps.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, September 18, 1998, Exemption No. 4943K
    Docket No.: 26378.
    Petitioner: Daimler-Benz Aerospace, MTU Maintenance GmbH.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.47(c)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit MTU-H to extend 
its certification privileges as an FAA-approved foreign repair station 
to contract the maintenance and repair of engine components of 
International Aero Engines AG Model V2500 turbine engines to facilities 
that are not FAA-certificated repair stations, U.S.-original equipment 
manufacturers, or approved manufacturing licensees for such engines.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, July 31, 1998, Exemption No 5337C
    Docket No.: 28954.
    Petitioner: Heart of Georgia Technical Institute.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 65.17(a), 65.19(b), 65.75(a) 
and (b), and 183.11(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit HGTI to: (1) 
Administer the FAA oral and practical mechanical tests to students at 
times and places identified in HGTI's FAA-approved aviation Maintenance 
Technical School (AMTS) Policies, Procedures, and Curriculum Handbook; 
(2) conduct oral and practical mechanical tests as an integral part of 
the education process rather than conducting the tests after students 
successfully complete the written mechanic tests; (3) allow applicants 
to apply for retesting within 30 days after failure without presenting 
a signed statement certifying additional instruction in the failed 
area; and (4) administer the Aviation Mechanic-General (AMG) written 
test to students immediately after they successfully complete the 
general curriculum but before they meet the experience requirements of 
65.77.

Disposition, Date, Exemption No.

Grant, August 27, 1998, Exemption No. 6805
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