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120-71B AFS-200 Standard Operating Procedures and Pilot Monitoring Duties for Flight Deck Crewmembers This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance for the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and updating of standard operating procedures (SOP), and for pilot monitoring (PM) duties. SOPs are universally recognized as fundamental to safe aviation operations. Their importance cannot be overstated, especially in light of the advent of PM standards with respect to the use of increasingly modernized automated systems. This AC provides a process for developing procedures that meet clear and specific requirements. Safe operations are founded on comprehensive SOPs made readily available within the manuals used by flight deck crewmembers. This AC also provides guidance on the definition and the training of PM duties and their integration into SOPs. Although this AC is directed towards Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 121 and part 135 air carriers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) encourages all air carriers, aircraft operators, pilot schools, and training centers to utilize this guidance. 01-10-2017
68-1 AFS-800 Alternative Medical Qualifications This advisory circular (AC) describes how pilots can exercise student, recreational, and private pilot privileges in certain small aircraft without holding a current medical certificate. It outlines the required medical education course, medical requirements, and aircraft and operating restrictions that pilots must meet to act as pilot in command (PIC) for most Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 91 operations. This AC is intended to be used as a resource for pilots exercising the privileges described in section 2307 of the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016. It is also intended to be a resource for state-licensed physicians who will be providing the required medical examination to those pilots. 01-09-2017
150/5200-28F AAS-300 Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) for Airport Operators

This AC provides guidance on using the NOTAM system for reporting airport facilities changes or outages and for utilizing the Runway Condition Assessment Matrix for airport condition reporting.  This AC prescribes procedures used to describe, format, and disseminate information on unanticipated or temporary changes to components of, or hazards in, the National Airspace System (NAS). 

 12-30-2016
20-188 AIR-1 Compatibility of Changes to Type Design Installed on Aircraft Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Order 8110.4C, Type Certification, paragraph 4-19(f)(2), requires the Limitations and Conditions section of a multiple STC to include the statement: “The installer must determine whether this design change is compatible with previously approved modifications.” This advisory circular (AC) provides engineering guidance to installers on determining the compatibility of the installation of approved changes to type design where previously approved changes to type design are installed on aircraft. Previously approved changes include other major or minor changes to type design approved under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 21, Certification Procedures for Products and Parts. Alterations or repairs to aircraft approved pursuant to part 43, Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Rebuilding, and Alteration should also be considered. Although this AC focuses on the installation of changes to type design approved via supplemental type certificate (STC) or amended type certificate where previously approved changes exist, the principles and guidance are applicable to alterations approved in a manner other than STC or amended type certificate where previously approved changes exist. 12-09-2016
20-167A AIR-130 Airworthiness Approval of Enhanced Vision System, Synthetic Vision System, Combined Vision System, and Enhanced Flight Vision System Equipment This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance for gaining airworthiness approval for enhanced and synthetic vision systems in aircraft. Specifically, it provides one acceptable means for complying with Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 23, 25, 27, or 29 airworthiness regulations when installing a synthetic vision system (SVS), enhanced vision system (EVS), combined vision system (CVS), or enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) in an airplane or rotorcraft. Since the release of Draft AC 20-167A for public comment, the FAA revised the standard format for Advisory Circulars. AC 20-167A is formatted in compliance with the new standard format, meaning the numbering of paragraphs changed from the draft that was presented for public comment. The preamble accompanying the 2016 EFVS rule specifically references paragraphs 4-5, 4-5.c.4, 4-5.c.4.(h).(iv), and 6-2.f.4. These referenced paragraphs equate to paragraphs 4.5, 4.5.3.4, 4.5.3.4.8.4, 6.2.6.4, respectively. 12-06-2016
120-115 AFS-300 Maintainer Fatigue Risk Management

This advisory circular (AC):

1. Describes the basic concepts of human fatigue and how it relates to safety for aviation maintenance organizations and individual maintainers.

2. Provides information on Fatigue Risk Management (FRM) in terms of fatigue hazards and mitigation strategies specific to aviation maintainers.

3. Describes the benefits of implementing FRM methods within aviation maintenance organizations.

4. Identifies methods for integrating FRM within a Safety Management System (SMS) (if applicable). Note: This AC is informational and is not mandatory. It does not constitute a regulation.

 12-02-2016
00-45H AFS-400 Aviation Weather Services The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) publishes Advisory Circular (AC) 00-45, Aviation Weather Services. This publication supplements its companion manual, the current edition of AC 00-6, Aviation Weather, which documents weather theory and its application to aviation. Revision H of AC 00-45 (AC 00-45H) provides an improved organization of aviation weather information. The document is organized using the FAA’s three distinct types of weather information: observations, analyses, and forecasts. Within this construct, AC 00-45H explains U.S. aviation weather products and services. It provides details when necessary for interpretation and to aid usage. In the past decade, access to aviation weather products has greatly improved with the increase of flight planning services and weather Web sites. The experience of listening to a weather briefing over a phone while trying to write down pertinent weather information becomes less tolerable when the reports are easily obtainable on ahome computer, tablet computer, or even a smart phone. To see weather along your route using a graphic of plotted weather reports combined with radar and satellite is preferable to trying to mentally visualize a picture from verbalized reports. Although most of the traditional weather products, which rolled off the teletype and facsimile machines decades ago, are still available, some are being phased out by the National Weather Service (NWS) in favor of new, Web-based weather information. It is the objective of AC 00-45H to bring the pilot and operator up to date on new and evolving weather information and capabilities to help plan a safe and efficient flight, while also describing the traditional weather products that remain. Online aviation weather information is easy to access, and so are references explaining the information. That is why AC 00-45H contains fewer illustrations and less detail for products available online. This AC will give an overview and direct the pilot where to find more weather information and explanatory details. Product examples and explanations are taken primarily from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) NWS Aviation Weather Center’s (AWC) Web site (http://www.aviationweather.gov) and other pertinent NWS Web sites. Due to the fluid nature of Web addresses, this AC minimizes the inclusion of Web site links. Instead, it provides the name of the Web site which can be easily found using Internet search tools. 11-14-2016
150/5320-6F AAS-100 Airport Pavement Design and Evaluation

This advisory circular provides guidance to the public on the design and evaluation of pavements used by aircraft at civil airports. 

 11-10-2016
150/5100-21 APP-520 State Block Grant Program

This AC provides guidance for application to and implementation of the State Block Grant Program (SBGP). It is intended for states and airport sponsors who participate, or plan to participate, in the SBGP. 

 10-31-2016
91-91 AFS-300 Maintaining Public Aircraft

This AC is intended to provide guidance for developing maintenance and inspection programs for aircraft operated as public aircraft. The recommendations in this AC were developed using industry best practices, depending on the aircraft being operated. The AC describes methods for maintaining aircraft in order to maximize both a safety and economic benefit.

 10-19-2016
70/7460-1L AJV-1 Obstruction Marking and Lighting with Change 1

This Advisory Circular (AC) sets forth standards for marking and lighting obstructions that have been deemed to be a hazard to navigable airspace.

 10-08-2016
91-70B AFS-400 Oceanic and Remote Continental Airspace Operations This advisory circular (AC) contains general information and detailed guidance for operators planning flights in oceanic and remote continental airspace, including authorizations needed for operations outside the continental United States (CONUS). This includes Performance-based Navigation (PBN) and Special Areas of Operation (SAO). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revised this AC to focus on the evolving operations in airspace where air traffic control (ATC) provides procedural control. This AC is laid out in a chronological format, beginning with foundational information, followed by information on the training, authorizations, and equipment required to operate most efficiently in this airspace, and finishing with flight planning, flight execution, and contingency operations guidance. Our goal is to provide you with a template to guide you through planning and executing flight operations through oceanic and remote continental airspace. Information related to international operations in specific locales has been removed from this AC due to its transitory nature. Some region-specific information has been incorporated into the North Atlantic (NAT), West Atlantic Route System (WATRS)/Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean, and Pacific (PAC) Resource Guides (NAT PDF, West Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico PDF, and PAC PDF). These online resource guides, along with the FAA Notices to Airmen (NOTAM) Domestic/International, provide the most current information available to pilots, aircraft dispatchers and other operational control personnel preparing for oceanic and international operations.We have also included hyperlinks to many documents, available free or for purchase. The dynamics of oceanic and remote continental airspace operations are such that they are constantly evolving, and it is incumbent on you, the operators, to closely monitor any changes. 10-04-2016
00-68 AIR-150 Aircraft Certification Service Voluntary Disclosure Reporting Program This advisory circular (AC) provides information and guidance to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aircraft Certification Service (AIR) Production Approval Holders (PAHs), Design Approval Holders (DAHs), and Organization Designation Authorization Holders (ODA Holders) who choose to voluntarily disclose apparent noncompliance with Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR). The procedures and practices outlined in this AC generally apply when PAHs, DAHs or ODA Holders voluntarily disclose noncompliance with regulatory requirements. These procedures and practices do not apply, however, to those persons who: (1) violate 14 CFR 21.2, Falsification of Applications, Reports, or Records; (2) are required to report failures, malfunctions, and defects pursuant to 14 CFR 21.3, but fail to make those reports in the timeframe required by the regulations; or (3) fail to report unsafe conditions pursuant to 14 CFR 183.63, Continuing Requirements: Products, Parts or Appliances. This AC is not mandatory and does not constitute a regulation. This AC describes an acceptable means to voluntarily disclose an apparent noncompliance. If you use the AC to voluntarily disclose noncompliance, the processes and requirements in this AC must be followed. 10-01-2016
20-182A AIR-130 Airworthiness Approval for Aircraft Weather Radar Systems This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance for the initial and follow-on airworthiness approval of aircraft weather radar systems meeting the latest revision of the Technical Standard Order (TSO)-C63, Airborne Weather Radar Equipment. This AC covers aircraft radar systems with weather detection and ground mapping, forward-looking windshear detection, forward looking turbulence detection, and atmospheric threat awareness capability. The guidance is applicable to Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, parts 23, 25, 27, and 29 aircraft. For forward-looking windshear and/or turbulence detection capability, the guidance in this AC applies to parts 25 and 23 fixed-wing airplane installations. This AC is not mandatory and does not constitute a regulation. This AC describes an acceptable means, but not the only means, of accomplishing airworthiness approval for the installation of airborne weather radar equipment. However, if you use the means described in the AC, you must follow it in all important respects. Appendix A provides additional guidance on the forward-looking windshear system annunciation, alert, and display icons. A list of related documents can be found in Appendix B of this AC. This AC provides guidance intended for new approvals. This AC is not intended to modify, change, or cancel existing equipment design or airworthiness approvals. Equipment with existing approvals can continue to be installed within the provisions of its original design and airworthiness certification. 10-01-2016
120-114 AFS-200 Pilot Training and Checking (14 CFR Part 121 Subparts N and O, including Appendices E and F) This advisory circular (AC) provides information regarding pilot training and checking under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 121 subparts N and O, including part 121 appendices E and F. It is intended to be used as a resource during the development, implementation, and revision of an air carrier’s pilot training and qualification program. This AC is not mandatory and does not constitute a regulation. This AC describes an acceptable means, but not the only means, for an air carrier to develop procedures and performance standards for pilot training and checking. 09-29-2016
150/5345-43H AAS-100 Specification for Obstruction Lighting Equipment

This AC contains the FAA specification for obstruction lighting equipment.  Effective 12 months after the date of this circular, only that equipment qualified per this specification will be listed in AC 150/5345-53, Airport Lighting Equipment Certification Program.  No re-testing will be required for existing equipment where test standards are unchanged from the previous version of this AC.

 09-28-2016
20-140C AIR-130 Guidelines for Design Approval of Aircraft Data Link Communication Systems Supporting Air Traffic Services (ATS)

This AC provides guidance material for applicants seeking an airworthiness approval for aircraft with an installed data link system intended to support air traffic services (ATS) data communication. It identifies specific configurations of aircraft data link systems for applicants seeking approval for type certificates (TC) and supplemental type certificates (STC) in order to facilitate operational approvals. Appendix A of this AC provides a list of related documents. Appendix B of this AC contains a list of applicable acronyms. 1.2 This AC describes an acceptable means, but not the only means, for you to gain airworthiness approval for aircraft data link system equipment. However, if you use the means described in this AC, you must follow it in all important respects. 1.3 The term “must” is used in this AC to indicate a mandatory requirement driven by regulation that is to be followed when using the guidance in this AC. The term “should” is used in this AC to indicate a recommendation and not a requirement when using the guidance in this AC. Since this AC represents an accepted means of compliance, an applicant seeking an alternative to any requirement or recommendation within this AC will need to be discussed with the Aircraft Certification Office (ACO) in order to achieve a common performance level with the AC.

 09-28-2016
20-160A AIR-130 Onboard Recording of Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC) In Crash Survivable Memory

This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance material for applicants seeking an airworthiness approval for aircraft with an installed Data Link Recording (DLR) system that records Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC). This AC describesan acceptable means, but not the only means, to gain design approval of your data link communication recording system. However, if you use the means described in the AC, you must follow it in its entirety.

In this AC, we focus on data to be recorded and logical recording point locations for storing CPDLC messages in onboard crash-survivable memory. These logical point locations, also called observation points, are physical locations within airborne avionic architectures deemed ideal for recording system data sources, as defined in Section 7.1 of this AC.

 09-28-2016
125-1A AFS-800 Operations of Large Airplanes Subject to 14 CFR Part 125 This advisory circular (AC) sets forth one means that would be acceptable to the Administrator to assist persons in complying with the requirements of Title 14 of theCode of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 125. It also provides, in Chapter 2, a test of applicability for operations which may be subject to part 125. 09-15-2016
39-10 AIR-100 Alternative Methods of Compliance This advisory circular (AC) presents guidance for persons seeking approval of an alternativemethod of compliance (AMOC) to an airworthiness directive (AD). This AC also providesanswers to common questions regarding AMOCs. 09-14-2016
187-1K AFS-50 Flight Standards Service Schedule of Charges Outside the United States

This advisory circular (AC) transmits an updated schedule of charges for services of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Flight Standards Service (AFS) aviation safety inspectors (ASI) outside the United States. Rulemaking action to Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 187, Docket No. 27809; and Notice 94-24, Fees for Certification Services and Approvals Performed Outside the United States, established the methodology for determining these charges. The rulemaking established that the FAA would publish these fees in an AC.

 09-08-2016
61-140A AFS-800 Autorotation Training The purpose of this advisory circular (AC) is to describe enhanced guidelines for autorotations during helicopter flight training. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has found a need to raise awareness of the risks inherent in performing autorotations in the training environment, and in particular, 180-degree autorotations. In this AC, the FAA recommends procedures that will mitigate safety risk during autorotations. This information is intended to supplement information about autorotation training found in the current editions of the Helicopter Flying Handbook (HFH), FAA-H-8083-21, and the Helicopter Instructor’s Handbook (HIH), FAA-H-8083-4. This AC is not mandatory and does not constitute a regulation. This AC describes an acceptable means, but not the only means, of conducting autorotation training for proficiency or in consideration of the requirements to be issued an Airman Certificate under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 61. You may use alternate methods for training if you establish that those methods meet the requirements of the HFH and FAA practical test standards (PTS). 08-31-2016
120-26L AJR-2 Assignment of Aircraft Call Signs and Associated Telephones This Advisory Circular describes the requirements and procedures for the assignment and authorization for use of aircraft call signs in the National Airspace System (NAS), specifically, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) three-letter designators (3LD), U.S. special designators, and local designators, and their associated telephonies. Guidance is provided to aircraft operators for requesting call signs and explains the assignment and the authorization process for their use domestically within the NAS and internationally. 08-25-2016
00-6B AFS-400 Aviation Weather This advisory circular (AC) was published by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Flight Standards Service (AFS), with contributions from the National Weather Service (NWS). The publication began in 1943 as CAA Bulletin No. 25, Meteorology for Pilots, which at the time contained weather knowledge considered essential for most pilots. As aircraft flew farther, faster, and higher, and as meteorological knowledge grew, the bulletin became obsolete. It was revised in 1954 under a new title, The Pilots’ Weather Handbook, and updated again in 1965. In 1975 it was revised under its current title. 08-23-2016
65-25F AFS-300 William (Bill) O’Brien Aviation Maintenance Technician Awards Program This advisory circular (AC) outlines the participation requirements for the FederalAviation Administration (FAA) William (Bill) O’Brien Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) Awards Program. This revision addresses changes to the Awards Program Awards Program and provides instructions for AMTs and the employers of AMTs participating in the online Awards Program. 08-18-2016

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