Transport i lotnictwo · 10.12.1996

Revisions to Digital Flight Data Recorder Rules

This document proposes to revise the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking entitled ``Revisions to Digital Flight Data Recorder Rules,'' that was published July 16, 1996. In this document, the FAA proposes to modify the previously proposed flight data recorder requirements to make them applicable to those airplanes placed on the operations specifications of a U.S. operator after a certain date. This document also proposes a two-year compliance date for certain aircraft that must be retrofitted with flight data recorder equipment as a result of a change in policy announced in the NPRM. The first revision is being proposed to close an unintended loophole in the current regulation that was repeated in the NPRM. The second change is needed to allow operators time to comply with the rule following the change in policy. The FAA is also soliciting additional comment concerning aircraft that should be exempted from the proposed DFDR upgrade.