Summit Aviation Blog – Federal Aviation Regulations

New or Updated Publications

1. Federal Aviation Regulations and associated Preambles. Updated through March 13, 2010.
2. Airworthiness Directives and associated AD Preambles. Updated through March 13, 2010.
3. CFR Part 40, Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs. Updated through March 13, 2010.
4. AC 00-65, Towbar and Towbarless Movement of Aircraft, dated 8/27/09.
5. AC 23.1309-1D, System Safety Analysis and Assessment for Part 23 Airplanes, dated 1/16/09.
6. AC 120-98, Operator Requirements for Incorporation of Fuel Tank Flammability Reduction, dated 5/7/09.
7. AC 150/5370-14A, Hot Mix Asphalt Paving Handbook, dated 7/24/01.
8. Type Certificate Data Sheets. Added new or revised TCDSs.
9. Order 8900.1, Flight Standards Information Management System (FSIMS). Incorporated Change 82, dated 1/11/10, Change 83, dated 1/14/10, Change 84, dated 1/29/10, Change 85, dated 1/20/10.

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ANY aviation regulation change c0uld be critical to your business. Don’t have time to keep up with all this and determine which changes are relevant?

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Try the Summit Aviation Digital Reference Library in your business. If you don’t agree that it’s worth every penny, we’ll refund your purchase price.

A couple of incidents recently have reminded me about the fallibility of computers! Jon describes it as “pathologically undependable”.

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My daughter’s computer got a virus and was advised to “wipe her hard drive” – and lose years of documents and all the pictures that she had taken of her children. (Fortunately, she didn’t take the advice and everything was recoverable.)
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One of our customers has spent years book marking and highlighting his copy of our Library. Suddenly, it didn’t reconcile when he got a new update. He emailed us the critical file and after several hours of Jon’s time, we were able to recover the file, but it was touch and go.
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So, the bottom line:
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Back It Up Jack!
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Back it up to a CD-R, a flash drive, an on-line service – whatever.
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And what do you back up?
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c:\Program Files\Summit Aviation\Reference Library\sdw\summit.sdw
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Summit.sdw is the file that stores all of your bookmarks, highlighters and notes.
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If you have created Custom Collections, you also need to back up C:\Program Files\Summit Aviation\Reference Library\custom.txt
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Back up early and often!

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Try the Summit Aviation Digital Reference Library in your business. If you don’t agree that it’s worth every penny, we’ll refund your purchase price.

Summit Aviation has been in business 20 years.  When people hear that, they ask us a lot of questions.  We thought we’d share some of the answers here.

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How Did Summit Aviation Get Started?

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In 1990, Jon decided to pursue his life-long desire to learn to fly and, of course, the first step was to by the latest FAR/AIM book and begin studying.
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He immediately noticed that there was no index in the book and only a basic table of contents. Being a serious student, that was a frustration.

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About this same time we became familiar with a word search program called Word Cruncher that indexed and searched every word and number in the scriptures and it caused him to think,

“Wouldn’t it be great if we could combine this software with these regulations and the AIM?”

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Note - back then it was called the Airman’s Information Manual – some women in aviation pointed out that not only men were pilots and had were able to have it changed to Aeronautical Information Manual – but that’s another story.)

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A quick phone call confirmed that we could indeed license the software, but it was much more difficult to find out if the regulations were available electronically from the government.

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It was pretty much out of the question to type almost a 1000 pages of regulatory material! In a day when virtually ever thing we want is available electronically, it stretches the imagination that we had to make several phone calls to various government agencies and ask precisely the right question before we found out that yes, they were available – on 9 track tape! At that was the beginning of Summit Aviation.

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And by the way, ironically, due to beginning a new business, it was several more years before Jon could actually begin his flying lessons!

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What’s kept us in business for 20 years is the fact that our Digital Reference Library is relied upon by many, many aviation companies, and have been there for them through many changes in the industry, and in regulations.  We enjoy working in an industry where people are resourceful and find ways to get things done.

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See for yourself what’s kept us in business for 20 years!  Try the Summit Aviation Digital Reference Library in your business. If you don’t agree that it’s worth every penny, we’ll refund your purchase price.

What’s New on the Biweekly 2010-06, 7 March 2010 CD
New or Updated Publications

1. Airworthiness Directives and associated AD Preambles.
   Updated through February 27, 2010.
2. Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM).
   Incorporated New Basic Order, dated 2/11/10.
3. Order 8900.1, Flight Standards Information Management System (FSIMS).
   Incorporated Change 80, and Change 81.

What’s New on the Biweekly 2010-05, 21 February 2010 CD

New or Updated Publications

1. Federal Aviation Regulations and associated Preambles. Updated through February 13, 2010.
2. Air Carrier Regulations, 14 CFR parts 200 – 1199. Updated through February 13, 2010.
3. Airworthiness Directives and associated AD Preambles. Updated through February 13, 2010.
4. EPA Regulations (40 CFR) pertaining to aircraft. Updated through February 13, 2010.
5. 49 CFR Hazmat Regulations and associated Preambles. Updated through February 13, 2010.
6. NTSB Regulations, 49 CFR, pertaining to aircraft. Updated through February 13, 2010.
7. SAFO – Safety Alert for Operators. Added new SAFOs.
8. Type Certificate Data Sheets. Added new or revised TCDSs.

ANY aviation regulation change c0uld be critical to your business. Don’t have time to keep up with all this and determine which changes are relevant?

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Try the Summit Aviation Digital Reference Library in your business. If you don’t agree that it’s worth every penny, we’ll refund your purchase price.