Stage: Final Publications

Regulatory Agency Final Publications

FAA AC_90-66B Non-Towered Airport Flight Operation

This advisory circular (AC) calls attention to regulatory requirements, recommended operations, and communications procedures for operating at an airport without a control tower or an airport with a control tower that operates only part time. It recommends traffic patterns, communications phraseology, and operational procedures for use by aircraft, lighter-than-air aircraft, gliders, parachutes, rotorcraft, and ultralight vehicles.

Opinion 09/2017 Implementation of the CAEP/10 amendments on climate change, emissions and noise

The main objective of this Opinion is to reduce aviation’s climate change and local air quality impact by introducing the new ICAO aeroplane CO2 standard and aircraft engine non-volatile particulate matter (PM) emissions standard into European Union (EU) legislation. Additional amendments are aimed at making the implementation of existing standards for noise and engine emissions more robust by introducing the respective updates from the ICAO Annex 16 standards into EU legislation.

The new and amended ICAO Standards (Annex 16 Volumes I, II and III) were adopted by the ICAO Council at the 7th meeting of its 210th Session on 3 March 2017 following consultation of ICAO Member States and based on the approval by the ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection at its 10th meeting (CAEP/10).

The amendments to ICAO Annex 16 Volume I address technical implementation issues with noise certification standards (Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs)). The amendments to ICAO Annex 16 Volume II implement a new non-volatile PM emissions standard and address various technical implementation issues. The purpose of the 1st Edition of ICAO Annex 16 Volume III is to implement the new aeroplane CO2 emissions standard.

EASA consulted on the proposed European implementation of the standards in NPA 2017-01 on 17.1.2017. The comments received by stakeholders were taken into account to develop this Opinion, and can be reviewed in CRD to NPA 2017-01 on the EASA website.

This Opinion is provided to the European Commission as the technical basis to prepare the proposed new EU legislation.

FAA Notice N_JO_7110.743_Open_Skies_Treaty_Aircraft

1. Purpose of This Notice. This notice amends FAA Order JO 7110.65, paragraph 9–2–23, Open
Skies Treaty Aircraft.
2. Audience. This notice applies to the following Air Traffic Organization (ATO) service units, Air
Traffic Services, System Op

FAA AIR-600-17-6F0-DM11 Deviation from Order 8100.15B, Organization Designation Authorization Procedures, and Order 8110.115, Certification Project Initiation and Certification Project Notification

This memorandum authorizes a deviation from the standards staff notification and response
requirements of FAA Order 8110.115, Figure 1, paragraphs 11q and 11aa, and Order 8100.15B,
paragraphs 8-6b, 8-6c(2)(a), 11-7a, and 11-7b, by no longer requiring a standards staff
determination of significance for ODA projects authorized to be completed without a PNL (i.e.,
no-PNL).
Previously, any major change in type design, including ODA projects, required notification to
and response from the appropriate standards staff using the Certification Project Notification
(CPN) process prescribed in FAA Order 8110.115. This memorandum clarifies that the
determination of whether a change requires standards staff involvement or is significant per 14
CFR Section 21.101(b) are pre-determined for no-PNL projects by the no-PNL authorization and
project management procedures of Order 8100.15. This means that determinations by the
standards staff are not required and that no-PNL projects may proceed through completion
without directorate review and concurrence. When aware of no-PNL projects in the (CPN)
database, the standards staff will note in the CPN response that standards staff response is not
required for ODA no-PNL projects. However, the standards staffs should routinely review the
CPN information for no-PNL projects and notify the OMT to pursue corrective actions with the
ODA holder if the determination of significance was improper.