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a major or minor modification,”
explained Steve Wysong, owner of
Wysong Enterprises Inc. “We deal
with some FSDOs and they look at
something as being minor, while
another office will look at virtually
the same installation and say it has
to be field approved. Then, another
office in another area will not do
field approvals and say we have to
STC everything.”
Ironing out differences in project definitions between the indus-

try and FAA – or at least beginning
the dialog – is a major benefit of
the face-to-face time during the
Rotorcraft Forums.
“Helicopters are even harder for
the FAA to understand, because so
much of the equipment we install
is not required to actually fly the
aircraft,” Wysong said. “Most of
the helicopters we deal with are
VFR-only aircraft. The navigational and situational awareness
equipment we add is not required
but requested by the individual
operator to enhance safety and
operations.”

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The grey area of accepted or
approved equipment in helicopters
is becoming an especially hot topic
within the industry. As Ric Peri,
AEA vice president of government
and industry affairs, sees it, the
roots of today’s problems go way
back to the early days of migrating
avionics downward from heavy iron
into lighter aircraft types.
“There was clarity between Part
23 and Part 25 aircraft requirements,” Peri said. “The problems
started when the operators wanted
to start migrating Part 23 avionics
like multifunction navigators and
multifunction displays upward into
Part 25 aircraft.
“Well, fast-forward that discussion and now add Part 27 and Part
29 rotorcraft. What happens is this
creates a lot of questions. The problem has been those questions, and
their answers have not always been
clear to the FAA representatives.
That’s the kind of stuff that creates
conflict and frustration between
the installation and certification/
approval sides.
“Because of the Rotorcraft
Forums, I hope we are creating
some clarity so that the questions
are now in the public domain, and
we can answer them up front and
eliminate this cumulative dialog
where we answer one question
only to get blindsided by another.
The agency is working hard to promote transparency – kudos to them
for that effort. And the Rotorcraft
Forums have given the Rotorcraft
Directorate and industry the opportunity to have good dialog to promote, enhance and move forward
with this transparency and more
open communications.”

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