Summit Aviation Blog – Federal Aviation Regulations

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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Here are the titles of documents that have been modified in the last two weeks:

New or Updated Publications:

1. Airworthiness Directives and associated AD Preambles. Updated through June 19, 2010.
2. 2 AC 20-140A, Guidelines for Design Approval of Aircraft Data Link Communication Systems Supporting Air Traffic Services (ATS), dated 4/7/10.
3. AC 20-142, Eligibility and Evaluation of U.S. Military Surplus Flight Safety Critical Aircraft Parts, Engines, and Propellers, dated 2/25/00.
4. AC 21-42, Transition Document for 14 CFR Parts 1, 21, 43, and 45, dated 10/16/09.
5. AC 33-7A, Guidance for 30-second and 2-minute One-Engine-Inoperative (OEI) Ratings for Rotorcraft Turbine 111 Engines, dated 6/11/09.
6. AC 45-2D, Application for U.S. Airworthiness Certificate, FAA Form 8130-6, dated 10/16/09.
7. AC 150/5300-13, Airport Design. Incorporated Change 15, dated 12/31/09.
8. AC 150/5345-54B, Specification for L-884, Power and Control Unit for Land and Hold Short Lighting Systems, dated 9/30/2009.
9. AC 150/5380-9, Guidelines and Procedures for Measuring Airfield Pavement Roughness, dated 9/30/2009.
10. SAFO – Safety Alert for Operators. Added new SAFOs.
11. TSO-C196, Airborne Supplemental Navigation Sensors for Global Positioning System Equipment Using Aircraft-Based Augmentation, dated 9/21/09.

Need more than just the titles?

It can be simple to make sure you’re in compliance with all FAA Regs AND MORE at all times with

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The Summit Aviation Digital Reference Library
a series of FAA regulation updates conveniently captured on DVD and automatically sent to you as often as every two weeks.

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• More than just the regs! The Digital Reference Library contains thousands of regulations, documents and publications indexed with the award-winning Folio search engine and our exclusive Query Wizard. Look it up in seconds, make decisions faster, and sleep better at night!
• You can look up any word, number or phrase to be sure you’re in compliance, without spending hours at the office or hiring additional people to do research.
• You can add bookmarks, highlighters and notes to any publication, annotating topics that interest you, and create your own collections of just the publications you use most. All of these customizations will remain active even as you install new issues.
• A new, complete DVD will be sent to you as often as every two weeks. Each new issue includes a “What’s New” feature to show you exactly what has changed or been added since the previous update. (In addition, you’ll see all changes in context, since they’re integrated and annotated.)

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Life in aviation without the Summit Aviation Reference Library would scarcely be worth living. For over 10 years the library has been my single most important resource. Even the FAA salivates when they see how fast we can do research! Thanks much for a great product.
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Joshua Weinshank
Director of Operations Xtra Airways

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Here’s What You Get With Your Order:

Each DVD includes a complete, comprehensive and current collection of FAA publications, and other regulations pertinent to aviation:

• The Federal Aviation Regulations, (FARs) (14CFR Parts 1-1199)
• Air Commerce (19CFR Part 122), EPA (40 CFR Part 87), FCC (47 CFR part 87), selected parts of 49 CFR (HAZMAT, NTSB and TSA).
• Over 750 Advisory Circulars
• A complete Airworthiness Directives library (over 16,000  all ADS since 1941)
• Dozens of FAA Orders  including the massive Order 8900.1 (FSIMS)
• Many FAA Forms
• Hundreds of Legal Interpretations.

Long ago, we gave up counting the equivalent number of hardcopy pages involved, but years ago it totaled over 35,000 – there are nearly 5,000 pages in Order 8900.1 alone.

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