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6732 Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 27 / Wednesday, February 10, 1999 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Issued in Washington, DC, on January 5, Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 1999. 145.47(b) Federal Aviation Administration Donald P. Byrne, Description of Relief Sought: To permit Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations. All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., to use [Summary Notice No. PE±99±04] the calibrations standards of Japan’s Petitions for Exemption National Research Laboratory of Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Docket No.: 29368 Metrology and Japan’s Petitions Received; Dispositions of Petitioner: North American Air Charter, Electrotechnical Laboratory in lieu of Petitions Issued Inc. the calibration standards of the U.S. Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR National Institute of Standards and AGENCY: Federal Aviation 135.299(a) Technology, formerly the National Administration (FAA), DOT. Description of Relief Sought: To permit Bureau of Standards, to test its ACTION: Notice of petitions for North American Air Charter, Inc., inspection and test equipment. exemption received and of dispositions pilots to accomplish a line operational Docket No.: 29406 of prior petitions. evaluation in a level C or level D Petitioner: Flight Services Group, Inc. flight simulator in lieu of a line check Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA’s rulemaking in an aircraft. 135.299(a) provisions governing the application, Docket No.: 29372 Description of Relief Sought: To permit processing, and disposition of petitions Petitioner: Helicopter Consutants, Inc. Flight Services Group, Inc., pilots to for exemption (14 CFR Part 11), this Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR accomplish a line operational notice contains a summary of certain 135.163 and 135.181 evaluation in a Level C or Level D petitions seeking relief from specified Description of Relief Sought: To permit flight simulator in lieu of a line check requirements of the Federal Aviation Helicopter Consultants, Inc., doing in an aircraft. Regulations (14 CFR Chapter I), business as Aircraft Commercial Docket No.: 29411 dispositions of certain petitions Enterprise, Inc. (ACE), to conduct Petitioner: Spirit Aviation Incorporated previously received, and corrections. -carrying operations in a Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR The purpose of this notice is to improve single-engine aircraft in certain 135.225(g) the public’s awareness of, and limited instrument flight rules Description of Relief Sought: To permit participation in, this aspect of FAA’s conditions as were permitted Spirit Aviation Incorporated to regulatory activities. Neither publication previously by § 135.103. In addition, conduct takeoffs in single-pilot, of this notice nor the inclusion or a grant of exemption would allow turbine-powered airplanes where omission of information in the summary ACE to conduct such operations takeoff visibility is one-half of a mile is intended to affect the legal status of without equipping its aircraft with (1) down to 1,800 feet runway visual any petition or its final disposition. two independent electrical power- range, subject to certain conditions and limitations. DATES: Comments on petitions received generating sources, or a standby must identify the petition docket battery or, alternate source of Docket No.: 29413 number involved and must be received electrical power; and (2) a redundant Petitioner: Hiawatha Aviation of on or before March 3, 1999. energy system for gyroscopic Rochester, Inc. instruments. Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR ADDRESSES: Send comments on any Docket No.: 29385 135.299(a) petition in triplicate to: Federal Petitioner: Charity Airlift Incorporated Description of Relief Sought: To allow Aviation Administration, Office of the Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Hiawatha Aviation of Rochester, Inc., Chief Counsel, Attn: Rule Docket (AGC– pilots to accomplish a line operation llll 125.1(b)(2) 200), Petition Docket No. , 800 Description of Relief Sought: To allow evaluation in a Level C or Level D Independence Avenue, SW., Charity Airlift Incorporated to flight simulator in lieu of a line check Washington, D.C. 20591. conduct noncommon carriage in an aircraft. Comments may also be sent operations using a restricted category Docket No.: 29424 electronically to the following internet Lockheed C–130 Hercules aircraft Petitioner: , Inc. address: 9–NPRM–[email protected]. carrying persons and/or for Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR The petition, any comments received, compensation or hire under the 135.243(c)(2) and a copy of any final disposition are provisions of part 125. Description of Relief Sought: To permit Ameriflight, Inc., to allow its pilots in filed in the assigned regulatory docket Docket No.: 29397 command to operate under and are available for examination in the Petitioner: Japan Company, Ltd. instrument flight rules with a Rules Docket (AGC–200), Room 915G, Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR minimum of 800 hours of total flight FAA Headquarters Building (FOB 10A), 145.47(b) time, including 400 hours of cross- 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Description of Relief Sought: To allow country flight time and 75 hours of Washington, D.C. 20591; telephone Japan Airlines Company, Ltd. to use night flight time, in lieu of the flight- (202) 267–3132. the calibrations standards of Japan’s time requirements of § 135.243. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: National Research Laboratory of Cherie Jack (202) 267–7271 or Terry Metrology and Japan’s Dispositions of Petitions Stubblefield (202) 267–7624 Office of Electrotechnical Laboratory in lieu of Docket No.: 25024 Rulemaking (ARM–1), Federal Aviation the calibration standards of the U.S. Petitioner: University of Illinois at Administration, 800 Independence National Institute of Standards and Urbana-Champaign Institute of Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. Technology, formerly the National Aviation This notice is published pursuant to Bureau of Standards, to test its Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR paragraphs (c), (e), and (g) of § 11.27 of inspection and test equipment. 141.55 (d) and (e) and 141.63(b) Part 11 of the Federal Aviation Docket No.: 29398 Description of Relief Sought/ Regulations (14 CFR Part 11). Petitioner: All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. Disposition: To permit UI to hold Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 27 / Wednesday, February 10, 1999 / Notices 6733

examining authority for FAA- illuminated. Grant, 1/20/99, Aerospace Corporation production approved training courses that do not Exemption No. 6853. and engineering flight test pilots to specify the minimum ground and Docket No.: 25731 use any one of Gulfstream’s GII, GIII, flight training time requirements of Petitioner: Experimental Aircraft GIV, or GV airplanes or a Level B, C, part 141. Denial, 1/21/99, Exemption Association and D simulator that represents one of No. 6856. Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR the types of Gulfstream turboject Docket No.: 27724 45.25 and 45.29 airplanes to meet the recent takeoff Petitioner: Academics of Flight Description of Relief Sought/ and landing experience requirements Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Disposition: To permit Experimental of § 61.57, without Gulfstream 65.17(a) Aircraft Association and Confederate holding a 14 CFR part 142 certificate. Description of Relief Sought/ Air Force members to continue to Grant, 2/3/99, Exemption No. 6859. Disposition: To permit Academics of operate their historic military aircraft [FR Doc. 99–3283 Filed 2–9–99; 8:45 am] Flight to administer a school aircraft with 2-inch high nationality and BILLING CODE 4910±13±M dispatcher written examination to registration marks located beneath the graduates of its FAA-approved aircraft aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer. Grant, dispatcher program, in lieu of the 1/22/99, Exemption No. 5019E. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FAA Aircraft Dispatcher written Docket No.: 28054 exam. Denial, 1/13/99, Exemption No. Petitioner: , Inc. Federal Aviation Administration 6851. Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Docket No.: 29184 121.345(c)(2) and 135.143(c)(2) RTCA Special Committee 172; Future Petitioner: Arctic Air Service, Inc. Description of Relief Sought/ Air-Ground Communications in the Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Disposition: To allow Air Vegas, Inc., VHF Aeronautical Data Band 118±137 135.152(a) to continue to operate certain aircraft MHz) Description of Relief Sought/ under part 121 or part 135 without a Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Disposition: To allow Arctic Air TSO–C112 (Mode S) transponder Federal Advisory Committee Act (P.L. Service, Inc., to operate its Sikorsky installed in those aircraft. Grant, 92–463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), notice is 76A helicopter (Registration No. 2/1/99, Exemption No. 6588A. hereby given for Special Committee 172 N348AA, Serial No. 760006) without Docket No.: 29365 meeting to be held February 23–26, an approved digital flight data Petitioner: Montana By Air 1999, Starting at 9:00 a.m. The meeting recorder installed. Grant, 1/22/99, Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR will be held at RTCA, 1140 Connecticut Exemption No. 6854. 135.143(c)(2) Avenue, NW., Suite 1020, Washington, Docket No.: 29376 Description of Relief Sought/ DC 20036. Petitioner: Mr. Allen Banen Disposition: To allow Montana By Air The agenda will be as follows: Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR to operate its Maule M–4–220C Tuesday, February 23: (1) Plenary 91.109 (a) and (b)(3) aircraft without a TSO–C112 (Mode S) Convenes at 9:00 a.m. for 30 minutes: Description of Relief Sought/ transponder installed. Grant, 2/3/99, (2) Introductory Remarks; (3) Review Disposition: To allow Mr. Banen to Exemption No. 6858. and Approval of the Agenda. 9:30 a.m. conduct certain flight instruction and Docket No.: 26267 (4) Working Group (WG)–2, VHF Data simulated instrument flight to meet Petitioner: Ms. Jacqueline A. Julio Radio Signal-in-Space MASPS, recent instrument experience Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Continue Work on VDL Mode 3. requirements in Beechcraft Baron and 121.311(b) Wednesday, February 24: (a.m.) (5) WG– Bonanza airplanes equipped with a Description of Relief Sought/ 2 Continues Work on VDL Mode 3; functioning thrower control wheel in Disposition: To continue to permit (p.m.) (6) WG–3, Review of VHF Digital place of functioning dual controls. Ms. Jacqueline A. Julio to be secured Radio MOPS Document Progress and Grant, 1/29/99, Exemption No. 6857. by a personal safety belt and held on Furtherance of Work. Thursday, Docket No.: 29395 her caregiver’s lap while on board an February 25: (7) WG–3 Continues Work. Petitioner: Iowa City Flying Service, Inc. aircraft although she has reached her Friday, February 26 (a.m.) (8) Plenary Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR second birthday. Grant, 2/3/99, Reconvenes at 9:00 a.m.: (9) Review 135.143(c)(2) Exemption No. 5195D. Summary Minutes of Previous Plenary Description of Relief Sought/ Docket No.: 23465 of SC–172; (10) Report on ICAO Disposition: To permit Iowa City Petitioner: Fuel, Inc. Aeronautical Mobile Communications Flying Service, Inc., to operate its Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Panel WG’s B & D Meeting; (11) Reports aircraft (Registration Nos. N71CF, 91.9(a) from WG’s 2 and 3 Activities; (12) N91CF, M11CF, and N117SK; Serial Description of Relief Sought/ EUROCAE WG–47 Report and Nos. 27–7954092, 31–174, 31– Disposition: To continue to allow Discussion of Schedule for Further 7652105, and 414–0638, respectively) Everts Air Fuel, Inc., to operate its Work with WG–3; (13) Review Issues without a TSO–C112 (Mode S) McDonnell Douglas DC–6 aircraft at a List and Address Future Work; (14) transponder installed. Grant, 1/20/99, 5–percent-increased zero fuel weight Other Business; (15) Dates and Places of Exemption No. 6852. and landing weight for operating all- Future Meetings. Friday, February 26 Docket No.: 29448 cargo aircraft. Grant, 2/3/99, (p.m.): (16) WG’s Continues as Required. Petitioner: , Inc. Exemption No. 4296G. Attendance is open to the interested Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Docket No.: 29306 public but limited to space availability. 25.791(a) and 121.317(a) Petitioner: Gulfstream Aerospace With the approval of the chairman, Description of Relief Sought/ Corporation members of the public may present oral Disposition: To allow American Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR statements at the meeting. Persons Airlines, Inc., to operate its Boeing 61.57(a) and (b) and 142.1 wishing to present statements or obtain 737 and 777 aircraft with ‘‘No Description of Relief Sought/ information should contact the RTCA Smoking’’ signs that always are Disposition: To allow Gulfstream Secretariat, 1140 Connecticut Avenue,