Stage: Final Publications

Regulatory Agency Final Publications

Airworthiness Directives; Various Airplanes, Helicopters, and Engines [V-Band Clamps]

The FAA has recently adopted the attached AD for turbocharged, reciprocating engine powered airplanes and helicopters and turbocharged reciprocating engines with a certain v-band coupling installed.  This AD was prompted by multiple failures of spot-welded, multi-segment v-band couplings at the tailpipe to the turbocharger exhaust housing flange.  This AD establishes a life limit for the spot-welded, multi-segment exhaust tailpipe v-band coupling and requires repetitively inspecting the spot-welded, multi-segment exhaust tailpipe v-band coupling. 

ED Decision 2023/007/R Helicopter emergency medical service performance and public interest sites

The objective of this Decision is to facilitate the implementation of the new requirements introduced into Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 (the ‘Air OPS Regulation’) by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1020 (the ‘HEMS Regulation’).

The amendments introduced by the HEMS Regulation and the acceptable means of compliance (AMC) and guidance material (GM) introduced in this Decision will modernise the European Union (EU) aviation regulatory framework applicable to helicopter emergency medical services, and are expected to increase safety and foster efficiency and proportionality, while keeping the economic impact on HEMS operators at a minimum.

FAA AC 33.15-3

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