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.
Docket No.: FAA-2001-9096 (previously Docket No. 24446) Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 121.485(b) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit ATA-member airlines and other similarly situated Part 121 air carriers to conduct flights of less than 12 hours' duration with an airplane having a flight crew of three or more pilots and an additional flight crew-member without requiring the rest period following that flight to be twice the hours flown since the last rest period at each flight crewmember's home base.
JOHN JELOVIC was named director of sales and service at Premier Turbines. In his expanded role, Jelovic will be responsible for managing implementation of more than 135 service enhancements. Jelovic has 16 years of experience at Sabreliner Corporation.
Docket No.: 29361 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 135.152(a) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit CHI to operate eight Boeing Chinook Model BV-234 and 15 Boeing/Kawasaki Vertol 107 Model BV/KV-107-II helicopters under Part 135 without an approved digital flight data recorder installed in each aircraft. Grant, April 17, 2001, Exemption No. 7509
DUNCAN AVIATION recently certified and installed the Honeywell Mark VII EGPWS with display as well as the Collins TCAS-4000 Aircraft Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) in a Falcon 10. The STC and installation of the Honeywell Mark VII EGPWS satisfies the upcoming Class A TAWS mandate. The installation of the Collins ACAS includes MOPS 7 software in anticipation of a possible FAA rule for RVSM operations in the WATRS region, which would require MOPS 7 for all TCAS II-equipped aircraft by November 1, 2001.
The House Tuesday approved in a 426-1 vote the fiscal 2002 transportation budget, including $13.3 billion in funding for FAA. The budget overall is only $12 million shy of the Bush Administration request, but includes some deep cuts in FAA plans to hire new employees (BA, June 25/296). The Senate transportation appropriations committee is expected to take up its own version of the fiscal 2002 DOT budget this month.
FAA introduced a new rule, Part 193, protecting safety information from disclosure if the information is voluntarily submitted under information-sharing efforts such as the Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) program and the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP). Under FOQA, participating carriers collect information from flight data recorders and perform trend analyses, which are made available to FAA for inspections. Under ASAP, employees of carriers or major repair stations voluntarily report safety issues and events.
Westchester County Airport (HPN) in White Plains, New York has expanded and renamed its noise abatement office. Four people have been added to the newly named environmental office, which now handles storm water, ground water and air quality issues in addition to noise abatement at the busy reliever airport near New York City.
Docket No.: 29725 Section 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 121.417(c)(2)(i) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To provide FedEx relief from the requirement that each flight crewmember perform hands-on emergency drills and operate certain emergency equipment every 24 months during recurrent training. Denial, April 30, 2001, Exemption No. 7521
CITATIONSHARES named Gary Niskar and Robert Jones regional sales managers. Based in Las Vegas, Nev., Niskar will be responsible for all new fractional ownership sales in his region. In addition to holding an airline transport pilot certificate with 2,000 hours of flight time, Niskar's previous experience in aviation includes fractional ownership sales, whole aircraft sales and business aviation customer service. Jones will be responsible for sales development of the new CitationShares Central Operations territory.
MARILYN SULLIVAN was named customer relations manager at Million Air Monterey. Sullivan will work with the customer service operations for transient and based aircraft, maintenance and charter programs.
PACIFIC AEROSPACE&ELECTRONICS, was delisted from The Nasdaq National Market last week for failure to meet minimum bid price and net tangible assets. "We continue to implement our plan to restructure our business by divesting non-core and unprofitable operations," said Don Wright, president and CEO of Pacific Aerospace&Electronics.
Docket No.: FAA-2001-9346 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 25.813(e) Description of Relief Sought: To provide BFGoodrich with relief from the requirements of 14 CFR 25.813(e) pertaining to the installation of sliding pocket doors in partitions between passenger compartments in Bombardier BD 700-1A10 Global Express airplanes used for corporate transport.
AGUSTA S.p.A. Model A109E helicopters (Docket No. 2001-SW-09-AD) - proposes to require modifying the passenger compartment sliding doors by installing certain locking mechanism kits. The proposed AD is prompted by accidental opening of a passenger compartment sliding door inflight due to a door-locking mechanism that is too easy to accidentally open. FAA estimates this proposed AD would affect 11 helicopters on the U.S. Registry at a cost of $1,760. Send comments in triplicate by Aug.
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT selected Luminescent Systems, Astronics Corporation's subsidiary, to provide cockpit lighting systems for three aircraft: the Premier I, Hawker Horizon and T-6A Texan II. Raytheon expects to deliver about 1,200 aircraft equipped with the lighting systems, which include a range of power supplies, keyboards and control panel assemblies.
BOMBARDIER Model CL-600-2B19 series airplanes (Docket No. 2001-NM-33-AD; Amendment 39-12280; AD 2001-12-24) - supersedes an existing AD that currently requires repetitive ultrasonic inspection to detect damage of the actuator lugs of the flight spoiler center hinge; and corrective action, if necessary. This amendment mandates the previously optional terminating action by requiring replacement of the flight spoilers with new improved spoilers. This AD will affect approximately 195 Bombardier Model CL-600-2B19 series airplanes on the U.S. Registry.
U.S. air tour operators are upset that a new federal working group charged with providing advice on the regulation of commercial air tours includes no air tour representatives.
AVIATION SALES COMPANY named Roy Rimmer chairman and CEO. Rimmer, who has served as a director of the company since January 2000, represents Lacy J. Harber, the largest stockholder, on the board of directors. Rimmer, 60, succeeds Dale S. Baker, the former chairman and CEO, who resigned his positions and will become a consultant to the company. "Dale Baker has led our company through a very difficult period as we have taken actions to reduce our debt, reposition our business and return our company to financial health," Rimmer said.
THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET late last month completed its review of FAA's proposed new regulation - Part 91K - to govern fractional ownership providers.The proposal was returned to FAA for what industry officials believe were cosmetic changes. FAA is expected to send the proposal to the Federal Register as early as this week.
RANDY INGRAM was promoted to vice president-information systems at Dallas Airmotive. Ingram will be responsible for the Management Information Systems Department.
EADS SOCATA moved Nicolas Chabbert, senior vice president of sales and marketing of the U.S. Socata Aircraft base, to head its German subsidiary, EADS Socata GmbH. Replacing Chabbert in the U.S. will be Michel Adam de Villiers as vice president of sales and marketing. De Villiers has served with Socata for 12 years, most recently as director of sales for the Western U.S.
John E. Gauch, a veteran of more than 14 years at Sporty's Catalogs and president of the company for the past four years, resigned from the Batavia, Ohio firm effective at the end of last week.
Dassault Aviation is teaming with the French aerospace research institute Onera to pursue new development projects, including quiet-aircraft technology that the French plane maker said could resurrect its plans to proceed with a supersonic business jet.
Docket No.: FAA-2001-8805 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 145.45(f) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit EJS to place and maintain its inspection procedures manual (IPM) in a number of fixed locations within its repair station facility rather than giving a copy of its IPM to each of its supervisory and inspection personnel. Grant, May 4, 2001, Exemption No. 7530
CORPORATE JETS became the first operator in North America of the Agusta A-119 Koala helicopter in May. The 1,000 horsepower, single-turbine helicopter can carry up to two stretcher patients along with two or three medical attendants.
