Avionics News November 2016 - 12

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The Aircraft Electronics Association's international membership continues to grow. Currently, the AEA represents avionics
businesses in more than 40 countries throughout the world. To better serve the needs of the AEA's international membership,
the "International News and Regulatory Updates" section of Avionics News offers a greater focus on international regulatory
activity, international industry news and an international "Frequently Asked Questions" column to help promote standardization.
If you have comments about this section, send emails to avionicsnews@aea.net.

UNITED STATES

News & Regulatory Updates
Schedule of charges
outside the United States
The Federal Aviation
Administration announced the
availability of Advisory Circular
187-1K that transmits an updated
schedule of charges for services of
FAA Flight Standards aviation safety
inspectors outside the United States.
Most important to AEA members
is that this AC lists the schedule of
charges for airman certification as
well as air agency (repair station)
certification outside the borders of
the U.S. The current rate for repair
station certification, approval,
authorization, inspection or renewal
is $191 USD per inspector per hour
(plus transportation and subsistence).
This new schedule became
effective Oct. 1, 2016.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
United States
Repair Station D100 Work Away
The following information is from a Sept. 7, 2016, memorandum from the
Federal Aviation Administration Aircraft Maintenance Division, AFS-300.

QUESTION:

If a repair station is issued D100, are there any geographic restrictions
that prevent the repair station from conducting business outside of the
United States on a recurring basis?

ANSWER:

According to the FAA memorandum:
"There is no prohibition in Title 14 Code of Federal
Regulations Part 145 that forbids a domestic repair station to
cross international boundaries to perform work away from the
fixed location on a recurring basis.
If a domestic repair station performs work outside the United
States on a recurring basis, the repair station manual must
have procedures identifying the controls it will have governing this type of activity. These procedures must be acceptable
to the FAA. OpSpecs paragraph D100 should be modified to
include the section of the repair station manual that identifies
the procedures used for working away from the fixed location
on a recurring basis. Oversight responsibilities for this type of
activity are determined by office of regional responsibility."
Work away is a common business model for the avionics industry, and
the support for international customers is growing. This question was
asked by an AEA member to a local FAA District Office who forwarded
the question up to Washington, D.C. The association appreciates the confirmation and clarification on the work away limitations.

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