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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Summary Notice No. PE-98-19Petitions 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.

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: 9-NPRM-CMTS@faa.dot.gov.

The petition, any comments received, and a copy of any final disposition are filedin 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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