[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 132 (Monday, July 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37579-37580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17649]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-99-19]


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.

DATES: Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket 
number involved and must be received on or before August 2, 1999.

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: 9-NPRM[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: Cherie Jack (202) 267-7271 or Terry 
Stubblefield (202) 267-7624 Office of

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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 July 2, 1999.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

Docket No.: 29396
Petitioner: Department of the Air Force
Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.209
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the USAF to conduct 
certain night flight military training operations without lighted 
external aircraft position and anticollision lights.

Docket No.: 29548
Petitioner: Continental Express
Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.344(b)(3)
Description of Relief Sought: To permit Continental Express to operate 
its Avions de Transport Regional ATR 42 and ATR 72 aircraft, Beechcraft 
1900D aircraft, and Embraer EMB-120 and EMB 145 aircraft without 
installing, in each aircraft, the required, approved digital flight 
data recorder (DFDR) until the next heavy maintenance check after the 
aircraft manufacturers have made the DFDR modification kits available, 
but not later than August 20, 2001.

Docket No.: 29556
Petitioner: Business Express Airlines, Inc.
Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.344(b)(3)
Description of Relief Sought: To permit Business Express Airlines to 
operate its fleet of Saab 340A and 340B aircraft without installing, in 
each aircraft, the required, approved digital flight data recorder 
(DFDR) until the next heavy maintenance check after the aircraft 
manufacturers have made the DFDR modification kits available, but not 
later than August 20, 2001.

Docket No.: 29574
Petitioner: Central Air Flight Training, Inc.
Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.251, 135.255, and 135.353
Description of Relief Sought: To permit Central Air Flight Training, 
Inc. to conduct sightseeing flights without establishing drug testing 
and alcohol misuse prevention programs

Docket No.: 29575
Petitioner: Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation
Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.344(b)(3)
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Air Wisconsin 
Airlines to operate certain British Aerospace 146 aircraft without 
installing, in each aircraft, the required, approved digital flight 
data recovered (DFDR) until the next heavy maintenance check after the 
aircraft manufacturers have made the DFDR modification kits available, 
but not later than August 20, 2001.

Docket No.: 29620
Petitioner: The Boeing Company
Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.1435(b)(1)
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: In lieu of a static proof 
pressure test on the 737-900, Boeing proposes to demonstrate compliance 
with Sec. 25.1435(b)(1) by similarity to the 737-700 hydraulic system 
(compliance for which was established during certification of that 
aircraft) and by engineering design review of the added straight-line 
hydraulic tube installations on the 737-900.

Dispositions of Petitions

Docket No.: 22451
Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America
Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.613, 121.619(a), and 121.625
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit ATA-members 
airlines and other similarly situated part 121 operators to continue to 
dispatch airplanes under instrument flight rules when conditional 
language in a one-time increment of the weather forecast states that 
the weather at the destination airport, alternate airport, or both 
airports could be below authorized weather minimums when other time 
increments of the weather forecast state that weather conditions will 
be at or above the authorized weather minimums.
Grant, 06/18/99, Exemption No. 3585L

Docket No.: 23477
Petitioner: Experimental Aircraft Association
Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 103.1(a), and (e)(1) through (e)(4)
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit individuals 
authorized by EAA to give instruction in powered ultralights that a 
maximum empty weight of not more than 496 pounds, have a maximum fuel 
capacity of not more than 10 U.S. gallons, are not capable of more than 
75 knots calibrated airspeed at full power in level flight, and have a 
power-off stall speed that does not exceed 35 knots calibrated 
airspeed.
Partial grant, 6/18/99, Exemption No. 3748I

Docket No.: 24427
Petitioner: United States Ultralight Association, Inc.
Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 103.1(a), and (e)(1) through (e)(4)
Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow individuals 
authorized by USUA to give instructions in powered ultralights that 
have maximum empty weight of not more than 496 pounds, have a maximum 
fuel capacity of not more than 10 U.S. gallons, are not capable of more 
than 75 knots calibrated airspeed at full power in level flight, and 
have power-off staff speed that does not exceed 35 knots calibrated 
airspeed.
Grant, 6/18/99, Exemption No. 4274H

[FR Doc 99-17649 Filed 7-9-99; 8:45 am]
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