Summit Aviation Blog – Federal Aviation Regulations

What’s New on the Biweekly 2010-18, 22 August 2010 DVD
New or Updated Publications

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1. Federal Aviation Regulations and associated Preambles. Updated through August 14, 2010.
2. Airworthiness Directives and associated AD Preambles. Updated through August 14, 2010.
3. Air Carrier Regulations, 14 CFR parts 200 – 1199. Updated through August 14, 2010.
4. 49 CFR Part 40, Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs. Updated through August 14, 2010.
5. AC 33-9, Developing Data for Major Repairs of Turbine Engine Parts, dated 4/30/10.
6. Order 8130.21G, Procedures for Completion and Use of the Authorized Release Certificate, FAA Form 8130-3, Airworthiness Approval Tag, dated 10/26/2009, and Change 1, dated 4/14/2010.
7. Order 8260.42B, United States Standard for Helicopter Area Navigation (RNAV), dated 3/10/09.
8. Order 8900.1, Flight Standards Information Management System (FSIMS). Incorporated Change 99, dated 8/2/10.
9. TSO-C155A, Recorder Independent Power Supply, dated 6/9/10.
10. SAFO – Safety Alert for Operators. Added new SAFOs.

American Airlines Faces Record $25 Million Dollar Fine

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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — American Airlines is facing a fine of $25 million or more because of maintenance lapses that led to the cancellation of some 2,500 flights in 2008, according to Friday report in The Wall Street Journal. Citing people familiar with the matter, the newspaper said some managers at the Federal Aviation Administration had sought penalties as high as $100 million, though that was later rejected by officials. The 2008 cancellations at American Airlines stranded some 300,000 customers over a three-day period with the carrier grounding most of its MD-80 fleet.

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See full story at the Wall Street Journal

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You can prevent fines, penalties and revocations by spending 15 minutes twice a month reviewing just the documents you’ve highlighted as relevant to your business in the Digital Aviation Reference Library!  The Library includes thousands of FAA, TSA, EPA and other regulations vital to aviation businesses.

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Private Jet Charter has compiled a list of 50 articles you should read before acquiring a private jet. Excellent idea!

Summit Aviation has been featured on Private Jet Charter

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Especially since Summit Aviation is listed as #16.
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Seriously, it’s a great list and we recommend it to anyone doing the research on aircraft acquisition!

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“Knowing the laws is important not only for your safety but to keep you from being fined.”

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We couldn’t agree more!

What’s New on the Biweekly 2010-17, 8 August 2010 DVD

New or Updated Publications

1. Federal Aviation Regulations and associated Preambles. Updated through July 31, 2010.
2. Airworthiness Directives and associated AD Preambles. Updated through July 31, 2010.
3. Air Carrier Regulations, 14 CFR parts 200 – 1199. Updated through July 31, 2010.
4. AC 20-151A, Airworthiness Approval of Traffic Alert And Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS II), Versions 7.0 & 7.1 and Associated Mode S Transponders, dated 9/25/09
5. AC 20-166, Issue Paper Process, dated 6/15/2010.
6. AC 90-106, Enhanced Flight Vision Systems, dated 6/2/10.
7. AC 120-100, Basics of Aviation Fatigue, dated 6/07/10
8. AC 150/5345-56A, Specification for L-890 Airport Lighting Control and Monitoring System (ALCMS), dated 9/30/2009.
9. FAA-S-8081-20, Airline Transport Pilot and Aircraft Type Rating. Incorporated Change 1, dated 6/18/10.
10. Type Certificate Data Sheets. Added new or revised TCDSs.

Jeppesen handed this out at the Auction Friday night at AirVenture 2010 in Oshkosh.

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Even though Sully was there, he didn’t know about it in advance. I’m sure those guys at Jeppesen had fun putting it together…

We think it’s brilliant.

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What’s New on the Biweekly 2010-16, 25 July 2010 DVD

New or Updated Publications

1. Federal Aviation Regulations and associated Preambles. Updated through July 17, 2010.
2. Airworthiness Directives and associated AD Preambles. Updated through July 17, 2010.
3. Order 8900.1, Flight Standards Information Management System (FSIMS). Incorporated Change 97, dated 6/28/10, and Change 98, dated 7/2/10.
4. AC 150/5380-8A, Handbook for Identification of Alkali-Silica Reactivity in Airfield Pavements, dated 9/30/2009.
5. SAFO – Safety Alert for Operators. Added new SAFOs.

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What’s New on the Biweekly 2010-15, 11 July 2010 DVD

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New or Updated Publications

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1. Airworthiness Directives and associated AD Preambles. Updated through July 3, 2010.
2. Air Carrier Regulations, 14 CFR parts 200 – 1199. Updated through July 3, 2010.
3. NTSB Regulations, 49 CFR, pertaining to aircraft. Updated through July 3, 2010.
4. AC 20-27G, Certification and Operation of Amateur-Built Aircraft, dated 9/30/2009.
5. AC 21-43, Production Under 14 CFR Part 21, Subparts F, G, K, and O, dated 10/16/2009.
6. AC 23-11B, 14 CFR Part 23 Type Certification of an Airplane Originally Certificated to European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) (CS-VLA) Standards or Joint Aviation Requirements – Very Light Airplane (JAR-VLA), dated 10/7/09.
7. AC 33.70-2, Damage Tolerance of Hole Features in High-Energy Turbine Engine Rotors, dated 8/28/09.
8. Order 8900.1, Flight Standards Information Management System (FSIMS). Incorporated Change 94, dated 6/7/10, and Change 95, dated 6/7/10.
9. FAA-G-8082-1E, Airline Transport Pilot, Aircraft Dispatcher, and Flight Navigator, dated December 2009
10. FAA-G-8082-2A, Pilot Knowledge Test Guide for Converting Transport Canada Civil Aviation Pilot Licenses to Federal Aviation Administration Pilot Certificates, dated September 2008.
11. Type Certificate Data Sheets. Added new or revised TCDSs.

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Summit Aviation Digital Reference Library vs. the FAA’s Websites

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By popular request, we’ve put together a side-by-side comparison of the features of the Digital Reference Library as they compare with the FAA website.

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Feature	Summit’s Digital Reference Library	FAA Websites
The Query Wizard	Exclusive use of the award-winning Folio® search engine and our exclusive Query Wizard.	Few search options
Searching when you don’t know for sure which document you need	Searches entire database of regulations, rules and publications, or specific searches	You need to know which document (or at least which agency) you need.
Save collections of documents	Yes	No
Bookmark regulations that apply to your company	Yes	No
Includes TSA, EPA, NTSB and other regulations that affect FAA	Yes	No
Alerts you to “What’s New?”	Yes- “What’s New” is highlighted on each new DVD, and each change is annotated in context.	Changes can be made on any business day, but may not be incorporated in context for months.
Interest groups	Air Transportation Operations Inspector Airworthiness inspector General Aviation Operations Inspector Instructor Mechanic Pilot Examiner Private Pilot Student Pilot	Versions of the website available for different “visitor types” but include only FAA publications, not TSA, EPA, NTSB etc.
Custom Collections	Yes	Not Available
Includes several publications not published online	Yes	No
Maintains your customizations (collections, highlights, bookmarks, etc.) from one version to the next	Yes	No
Archives – showing what the regulations were at some past date	Yes	No

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Summit Aviation was mentioned in the Wheels Up Business Aviation Blog on Forbes.com

Excerpt of article below

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In Jeffrey J. Fox’s classic book “How to Become a Rainmaker,” Fox emphasizes the need to “show them the money” for each deal for each prospective client.

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To do this, you have to understand what the customer is actually buying.

What the customer really values

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To use the example from the book,  let’s say you are in a paint store evaluating two brands of house paint. Brand A is $10 a gallon and Brand B is $18 a gallon. Brand A has the lowest price, but Brand B has more pigment, thereby requiring one less coat of paint than Brand A.  Which paint is the better value?

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If you want a gallon of paint, Brand A is the better value.  If you want a painted house, Brand B is the better value, assuming you would use half as much paint – even before you calculate time spent painting!

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A key activity of anyone in business is to figure out what the customer is really after, then offer him the best value for his dollar. This doesn’t necessarily equate to the cheapest product or the lowest fare.

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Most people don’t buy a product or service, they buy the means to meet their agenda.

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Very smart people in aviation companies (some of whom also happen to be ABCI clients) have done the hard work of figuring out what their customers really value.  It’s more than a difference of semantics –it’s a difference of mindset, and it seems that for the airlines, it’s gotten lost in the recent fray over price.

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Examples of value propositions from the aviation field

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• Summit Aviation’s clients don’t necessarily just want DVDs of aviation regulations. What they really want is the ability to make critical decisions faster, the ability to get more done without hiring more people to do research, and the peace of mind that comes from knowing they’re in compliance with the latest in a formidable body of aviation rules and regs.

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From RoguePoet on Everthing2.com – we thought Summit Aviation folks would enjoy this one.

My grandfather is a retired USAF recon pilot. He flew converted long-range bombers all over the world in WW2, including dozens of dicey sorties “over the Hump” (that is, directly over the Himalayas into China) in support of the Ledo Road and the famous Flying Tigers  attack squadron.

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It’s been 35 years now since he’s even set foot in a cockpit. I once asked him about this, why he never flies anymore, and he just laughed and jutted a thumb at an old clipping tacked up by his desk. He’s had this note up on the wall of his office for God-knows-how-long, and I’d never even stopped to read it before. It was the “FAA’s annotated version” of a poem held near and dear to the hearts of aviators the world over, John Magee’s High Flight. Seems like it took me an hour to stop laughing.

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Here’s to surly old flyboys who still dream of the good ol’ days! Enjoy…

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Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth¹,
And danced² the skies on laughter silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed³ and joined the tumbling mirth⁴
Of sun-split clouds⁵ and done a hundred things⁶
You have not dreamed of — Wheeled and soared and swung⁷
High in the sunlit silence⁸. Hov’ring there⁹
I’ve chased the shouting wind¹⁰ along and flung¹¹
My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long delirious¹², burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights¹³ with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle¹⁴ flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space¹⁵,
Put out my hand¹⁶, and touched the face of God.

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1. Pilots must insure that all surly bonds have been slipped entirely before aircraft taxi or flight is attempted.
2. During periods of severe sky dancing, crew and passengers must keep seatbelts fastened. Crew should wear shoulderbelts as provided.
3. Sunward climbs must not exceed the maximum permitted aircraft ceiling.
4. Passenger aircraft are prohibited from joining the tumbling mirth.
5. Pilots flying through sun-split clouds under VFR conditions must comply with all applicable minimum clearances.
6. Do not perform these hundred things in front of Federal Aviation Administration inspectors.
7. Wheeling, soaring, and swinging will not be attempted except in aircraft rated for such activities and within utility class weight limits.
8. Be advised that sunlit silence will occur only when a major engine malfunction has occurred.
9. “Hov’ring there” will constitute a highly reliable signal that a flight emergency is imminent.
10. Forecasts of shouting winds are available from the local FSS. Encounters with unexpected shouting winds should be reported by pilots.
11. Pilots flinging eager craft through footless halls of air are reminded that they alone are responsible for maintaining separation from other eager craft.
12. Should any crewmember or passenger experience delirium while in the burning blue, submit an irregularity report upon flight termination.
13. Windswept heights will be topped by a minimum of 1,000 feet to maintain VFR minimum separations.
14. Aircraft engine ingestion of, or impact with, larks or eagles should be reported to the FAA and the appropriate aircraft maintenance facility.
15. Aircraft operating in the high untresspassed sanctity of space must remain in IFR flight regardless of meteorological conditions and visibility.
16. Pilots and passengers are reminded that opening doors or windows in order to touch the face of God may result in loss of cabin pressure. 

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http://everything2.com/user/RoguePoet/writeups/The+Annotated+High+Flight

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