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AD 2012-15-04 Airworthiness Directives; Eurocopter France Helicopters
Applicability*9
This AD becomes effective August 13, 2012.
Compliance
(1) The Manager, Safety Management Group, FAA, may approve AMOCs for this AD. Send your proposal to: Clark Davenport, Aviation Safety Engineer, Safety Management Group, Rotorcraft Directorate, FAA, 2601 Meacham Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas 76137; telephone (817) 222-5110; email clark.davenport@faa.gov. (2) For operations conducted under a 14 CFR part 119 operating certificate or under 14 CFR part 91, subpart K, we suggest that you notify your principal inspector, or lacking a principal inspector, the manager of the local flight standards district office or certificate holding district office, before operating any aircraft complying with this AD through an AMOC.
Required actions
Joint Aircraft Service Component (JASC) Code: 2210: Autopilot System. Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 16, 2012. Kim Smith, Manager, Rotorcraft Directorate, Aircraft Certification Service. [FR Doc. 2012-17960 Filed 7-26-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-13-P
Unsafe condition
Before further flight, revise the Operating Limitations section of Eurocopter EC 155B1 Flight Manual Section 2.1, by inserting a copy of this AD into the Flight Manual or by making pen and ink changes as follows. Under paragraph 5, Minimum Flight Crew/Maximum Personnel Transport Capability, beneath “Minimum flight crew,” remove the phrase “—one pilot in right-hand seat” and replace it as follows: —VFR: One pilot in right-hand seat. —IFR: Two pilots required.
Affected ADs
This AD defines the unsafe condition as intermittent uncommanded roll oscillations during coupled instrument landing system and localizer approaches with the autopilot coupled, which could result in subsequent loss of control of the helicopter.
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