Forty Nine Reasons Airlines Depend on The Digital Reference Library
Forty Nine Reasons Regional and National Airlines Rely on Summit Aviation’s Digital Reference Library!
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Regional and National Airlines have a number of rules & regs to deal with . . .here are just a few.
Regional and National Airlines have a lot of regulations to keep track of, and like most of the aviation industry are doing a lot more work with fewer people. The average passenger has no idea about the regulatory burden on airlines. And the regulations (FAA, TSA, EPA and others) can change any business day. Keeping on top of the regulatory changes is harder than ever, and many regional and national airlines rely on Summit Aviation to keep them current.
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Here are 49 of the most commonly-referenced documents used by regional and national airlines. There are thousands of publications contained on the Digital Reference Library. The ones that may be of particular interest to airlines include the following:
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14 CFRÂ particularly
- Part 91 – General Operating and Flight Rules
- Part 93 – Special Air Traffic Rules
- Part 95 – IFR Altitudes
- Part 97 – Standard Instrument Procedures
- Part 99 – Security Control of Air Traffic
- Part 119 – Certification: Air Carriers and Commercial Operators
- Part 121 – Operating Requirements: Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations
- Part 125 – Certification and Operations: Airplanes Having a Seating Capacity of 20 or more Passengers or a Maximum Payload Capacity of 6,000 Pounds or more; and Rules Governing Persons On Board Such Aircraft.
- Part 158 – Passenger Facility Charges (PFCs)
- Part 217 – Reporting Traffic Statistics by Foreign Air Carriers
- Part 234 – Airline Service Quality Performance Reports
- Part 241 – Uniform System of Accounts and Reports for Large Certificated Air Carriers
- Part 250 – Oversales
- Part 253 – Notice of Terms of Contract of Carriage
- Part 257 – Disclosure of Code-sharing Arrangements and Long Term Wet Leases
- Part 258 – Disclosure Change-of-gauge Services
- Part 300 – Terminations, Suspensions, and Reductions of Service
- Part 382 – Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel
- Part 398 Guidelines for Individual Determinations of Basic Essential Air Service
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49 CFR
- Part 1510 – Passenger Civil Aviation Security Service Fees
- Part 1544 — Aircraft Operator Security: Air Carriers and Commercial Operators
- Part 1550 – Aircraft Security Under General Operating and Flight Rules
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Handbooks
- FAA-H-8083-2 – Risk Management Handbook
- FAA-H-8083-25A – Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
- FAA-H-8083-30 – Aviation Maintenance Technician Handbook – General
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Advisory Circulars
- AC 20-140 – Guidelines for Design Approval of Aircraft Data Communications Systems
- AC 21-23B – Airworthiness Certifications of Civil Aircraft Engines, Propellers and Related Products Imported to the United States.
- AC 34-1B – Fuel Venting and Exhaust Emission Requirements for Turbine Engine Powered Airplanes.
- AC 43-16A – Aviation Maintenance Alerts
- AC 61-134 – General Aviation Controlled Flight into Terrain Awareness
- AC 91-70 – Oceanic Operations
- AC 91-74A – Pilot Guide: Flight in Icing Conditions
- AC 108-1 – Air Carrier Security
- AC 108-2 – Security Rules – Carriage of Weapons and Escorted Persons
- AC 120-12A – Private Carriage Versus Common Carriage of Persons or Property
- AC 120-27E – Aircraft Weight and Balance Control
- AC 120-28D – Criteria for Approval of Category III Weather Minima for Takeoff, Landing, and Rollout
- AC 120-29A – Criteria for Approval of Category I and Category II Weather Minima for Approach
- AC 120-82 – Flight Operational Quality Assurance
- AC 120-95 – Portable Oxygen Concentrators
- AC 129-3 – Foreign Air Carrier Security
- AC 135-15 – Emergency Medical Services/Airplane (EMS/A)
- AC 150/5190-7 – Minimum Standards for Commercial Aeronautical Activities
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Accident Prevention Program Publications
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Orders
- Order 4040.9D – FAA Aircraft Management Program
- Order 8020.11B – Aircraft Accident and Incident Notification, Investigation, and Reporting
- Order 8900.1 – Flight Standards Information Management System (FSIMS)
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Legal Interpretations
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Forms – (nearly all of them!) But especially
- FAA Form 5010-3, Airport Master Record
- FAA Form 337, Major Repair and Alteration
- FAA Form 5200-7 Bird/Wildlife Strike Report
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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
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Need more? Click here for a complete listing of publications included in our Reference Library.
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Jon and Paula Wollhaf started Summit Aviation during a recession – in 1990. The current recession doesn’t scare them. In October of 1987 an unprecedented stock collapse lopped 22.6 off the Dow Jones Industrial average. The economy hadn’t recovered much by 1990, but the Woellhafs saw a business need and filled it.
