FAA Fast Team Notice - 5/28/16
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FAAST Blast NPRM Provides Pilot Regulatory Relief, NTSB Hosts Safety Seminar, ACS Transition, The Happiest Place in Aviation T
Notice Number: NOTC6534
FAAST Blast Week of May 16, 2016 May 22, 2016
Biweekly FAA Safety Briefing News Update
NPRM to Provide Regulatory Relief to GA Pilots
In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued on May 12, 2016, the FAA aims to provide some regulatory relief for pilots in several areas of general aviation training and certification. Among the proposed changes is an increase in the allowed use of aviation training devices with regard to instrument training and instrument recency experience requirements. This rulemaking also addresses changing technologies by accommodating the use of technically advanced airplanes as an alternative to the older complex single engine airplanes for the commercial pilot experience requirements. Additionally, the NPRM would broaden the opportunities for military instructors to obtain civilian ratings based on military experience, would expand opportunities for logging pilot time, and would remove a burden from sport pilot instructors by permitting them to serve as safety pilots. A grid summarizing all of the proposed changes and the effected regulation parts is included with the NPRM.
To view the proposed rule as well as provide comments (comment period open until Aug. 10, 2016), go to https://federalregister.gov/a/2016-10168.
NTSB Hosts Loss of Control Seminar
On May 14, 2016, at their training facility in Ashburn, Va., the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a safety seminar designed to highlight the lessons learned from its investigations of GA accidents involving loss of control. NTSB Member Dr. Earl Weener started the conversation by addressing the fact that LOC accidents make up about 40 percent of all GA fatal accidents, and that the trend is staying stubbornly fixed. Following Dr. Weener were presentations by AOPAs Air Safety Institute, and the General Aviation Joint Steering Committees Vice Chair, George Perry; Carl Johnson, Assistant Division Manager from the FAAs General Aviation and Commercial Division; and NTSB Lead Investigator Paul Cox. Together, the group highlighted the significant steps that regulators, aviation advocates, and industry have taken in improving aviation safety, and offered insight about what it means to build a culture of safety.
Reducing GA accidents remains a priority and attending seminars such as this is just one way a pilot can get involved and keep the safety discussion going. To see when new seminars are posted, go to www.ntsb.gov/Training_Center/Pages/safety_seminars.aspx.
How Do I Transition from PTS to the new Airman Certification Standards (ACS)?
If you are an applicant, an instructor, or evaluator wondering how the PTS-to-ACS transition will work, check out the FAQs at http://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs/. If you have a question not covered in the FAQs, email the FAAs newly-established ACS Focus Team: 9-AVS-ACS-Focus-Team@faa.gov.
The Happiest Place in Aviation Tech!
Ever wondered how new technology makes its way to the National Airspace System? Ever pondered who is responsible for helping to research and develop everything from airport LEDs to UAS detection technologies? Go behind the scenes and read about the happiest place in aviation tech - the FAAs William J. Hughes Technical Center - in the May/June 2016 edition of FAA Safety Briefing at http://1.usa.gov/FAA_ASB.
Produced by the FAA Safety Briefing editors, http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:41 PM
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Subject: "FAAST Blast NPRM Provides Pilot Regulatory Relief, NTSB Hosts Safety Seminar, ACS Transition, The Happiest Place in Aviation T" - FAASafety.gov
FAA Safety Team | Safer Skies Through Education
FAAST Blast NPRM Provides Pilot Regulatory Relief, NTSB Hosts Safety Seminar, ACS Transition, The Happiest Place in Aviation T
Notice Number: NOTC6534
FAAST Blast Week of May 16, 2016 May 22, 2016
Biweekly FAA Safety Briefing News Update
NPRM to Provide Regulatory Relief to GA Pilots
In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued on May 12, 2016, the FAA aims to provide some regulatory relief for pilots in several areas of general aviation training and certification. Among the proposed changes is an increase in the allowed use of aviation training devices with regard to instrument training and instrument recency experience requirements. This rulemaking also addresses changing technologies by accommodating the use of technically advanced airplanes as an alternative to the older complex single engine airplanes for the commercial pilot experience requirements. Additionally, the NPRM would broaden the opportunities for military instructors to obtain civilian ratings based on military experience, would expand opportunities for logging pilot time, and would remove a burden from sport pilot instructors by permitting them to serve as safety pilots. A grid summarizing all of the proposed changes and the effected regulation parts is included with the NPRM.
To view the proposed rule as well as provide comments (comment period open until Aug. 10, 2016), go to https://federalregister.gov/a/2016-10168.
NTSB Hosts Loss of Control Seminar
On May 14, 2016, at their training facility in Ashburn, Va., the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a safety seminar designed to highlight the lessons learned from its investigations of GA accidents involving loss of control. NTSB Member Dr. Earl Weener started the conversation by addressing the fact that LOC accidents make up about 40 percent of all GA fatal accidents, and that the trend is staying stubbornly fixed. Following Dr. Weener were presentations by AOPAs Air Safety Institute, and the General Aviation Joint Steering Committees Vice Chair, George Perry; Carl Johnson, Assistant Division Manager from the FAAs General Aviation and Commercial Division; and NTSB Lead Investigator Paul Cox. Together, the group highlighted the significant steps that regulators, aviation advocates, and industry have taken in improving aviation safety, and offered insight about what it means to build a culture of safety.
Reducing GA accidents remains a priority and attending seminars such as this is just one way a pilot can get involved and keep the safety discussion going. To see when new seminars are posted, go to www.ntsb.gov/Training_Center/Pages/safety_seminars.aspx.
How Do I Transition from PTS to the new Airman Certification Standards (ACS)?
If you are an applicant, an instructor, or evaluator wondering how the PTS-to-ACS transition will work, check out the FAQs at http://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs/. If you have a question not covered in the FAQs, email the FAAs newly-established ACS Focus Team: 9-AVS-ACS-Focus-Team@faa.gov.
The Happiest Place in Aviation Tech!
Ever wondered how new technology makes its way to the National Airspace System? Ever pondered who is responsible for helping to research and develop everything from airport LEDs to UAS detection technologies? Go behind the scenes and read about the happiest place in aviation tech - the FAAs William J. Hughes Technical Center - in the May/June 2016 edition of FAA Safety Briefing at http://1.usa.gov/FAA_ASB.
Produced by the FAA Safety Briefing editors, http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/
Address questions or comments to: SafetyBriefing@faa.gov.
Follow us on Twitter @FAASafetyBrief or https://twitter.com/FAASafetyBrief
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