Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Petitions Received; Dispositions of Petitions Issued

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 21, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19578-19579]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9985]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-99-10]


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 May 13, 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-cmts@faa.gov.
    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 Rulemaking (ARM-1), Federal 
Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 
20591.

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    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 April 16, 1999.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 28884.
    Petitioner: Aero Sky.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.37(b).
    Description of Relief Sought: To continue to allow Aero Sky to hold 
a Federal Aviation Administration repair station certificate 
(certificate No. KQ7R556N) without having suitable permanent housing 
facilities for at least one of the heaviest aircraft within the weight 
class of the rating it holds.

    Docket No.: 29469.
    Petitioner: Astral Aviation, Inc. dba Skyways Airlines.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.358(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Skyway Airlines to begin 
proving flights in the Fairchild Dornier 328-300 aircraft without 
installation of an approved windshear escape flight guidance system.

    Docket No.: 29479.
    Petitioner: Skydive U, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Skydive U, Inc. to allow 
non-student, foreign national parachutists to make international 
parachute jumps at Skydive U's facility without complying with the 
parachute equipment packing requirements of 105.43(a).

    Docket No.: 29483.
    Petitioner: Jackson Police Department.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.195(g)(1) and 91.109(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Jackson PD pilots in 
training to use public aircraft to log the aeronautical experience 
required by 61.39 to take the practical test for issuance of a pilot 
certificate and aircraft rating.

    Docket No.: 29492.
    Petitioner: Lynden Air Cargo.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.344.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Lynden Air Cargo to operate 
each of its four L382G Hercules aircraft (Registration Nos. N401LC, 
N402LC, N403LC, N404LC; Serial Nos. 4606, 4698, 4590, and 4763 
respectively) without a digital flight data recorder as required under 
121.344.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 22706.
    Petitioner: Bankair, Inc.
    Sections of The FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.225(e).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Bankair pilots 
to operate Bankair aircraft at any U.S. military base that has adopted 
the criteria contained in the U.S. Standard for Terminal Instrument 
Procedures used for determining lower-than-standard departure minimums 
using takeoff visibility minimums that are less than 1 mile and equal 
to or greater than the landing visibility minimums established for 
those airfields. GRANT, 4/15/99, Exemption No. 6661A

    Docket No.: 26478.
    Petitioner: United States Air Force.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.209(a) (1) and (2).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the Air Force 
to conduct conternarcotics aircrew flight training operations in 
support of drug law enforcement and drug traffic interdiction, without 
lighted aircraft position or anticollision lights. GRANT, 4/8/99, 
Exemption No. 5305C

    Docket No.: 28847.
    Petitioner: Trans State Airline.
    Section of The FAR Affected: 14 CFR 14 CFR 121.433(c)(1)(iii) and 
121.441(a)(1)) & (b)(1)
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To continue to permit TSA 
to combine recurrent flight and ground training and proficiency checks 
for TSA's flight crewmembers in a single annual training and 
proficiency evaluation program. GRANT, 4/8/99, Exemption No. 63336A

    Docket No.: 29424.
    Petitioner: Amerflight, Inc.
    Section of The FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.243.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Ameriflight to 
allow its pilots in command to operate under instrument flight rules 
with a minimum of 800 hours of total flight time, including 400 hours 
of cross-country flight time and 75 hours of night flight time, in lieu 
of the flight-time requirements of 135.243. DENIAL, 4/8/99, Exemption 
No. 6885.

    Docket No.: 29425
    Petitioner: Popular Rotorcraft Association, Inc.
    Section of The FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.319(a)(1) & (2)
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit PRA and its 
member flight instructors to conduct pilot and flight instructor 
training in an experimental gyroplane for compensation or hire. GRANT, 
4/15/99, Exemption No. 5209F

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