ARSA Needs Your Input: Take Our Survey Now!

ARSA’s 2012 member survey is up and running. This important survey helps ARSA identify issues of common concern, quantify the value of our services, provide new opportunities for the years ahead, and support the Association’s advocacy on behalf of repair stations.

Open until 8:00 p.m. EST on February 17, the survey seeks answers to questions that will help ARSA better represent your interests and deliver first class service.

ARSA 2012 Annual Repair Symposium - REGISTRATION OPEN!

ARSA will hold its Legislative Day on Capitol Hill and its Annual Repair Symposium March 14-16, 2012 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pentagon City, VA. Come join aviation professionals from around the world and participate in this extraordinary event. The Annual Repair Symposium is the perfect place to connect with officials from the FAA and other aviation authorities, as well as key members of Congress and your colleagues in the industry.

Taxiing To Take-Off? Congress Clears 23rd FAA Extension

Extension Follows Deal Clearing the Path toward Final Passage of FAA Reauthorization

On Jan. 26, the Senate cleared the 23rd short-term extension of FAA operating authority (H.R. 3800), clearing the measure for the president’s approval prior the expiration of the agency’s current authority on Jan. 31.

H.R. 3800 is a clean extension of FAA authority through Feb. 17, and is necessary to buy lawmakers additional time to iron out the differences between House and Senate passed FAA legislation (H.R. 658, S. 223). Lawmakers from both sides of the isle in both chambers have expressed optimism that this will be the final extension. It has been more than three years since the last long-term aviation bill, VISION-100, expired.

TSA Content with Certification Ban

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has no plans to request congressional removal of the FAA prohibition on the certification of new foreign repair stations, Administrator John Pistole told ARSA.

In a January 4 reply to ARSA’s November 2011 letter detailing the ban’s negative consequences for the aviation industry, Pistole ignores the economic impact of TSA’s inaction and reiterates the agency’s earlier response that it won’t finalize repair station security rules until at least the fourth quarter of 2012.

FAA Launches Mobile Site

The FAA has launched a new version of the agency’s website optimized for mobile devices.

The mobile version is optimized to provide iPhone (iOS 4+) and Android (2.2+) users a smooth browsing experience for some popular features of the FAA’s website. Mobile and tablet (iOS 4+, Android 3.1+) users will find optimized features for looking up advisory circulars, locating the closest flight standards district office (FSDO), researching N-numbers, checking airport status, and catching up on FAA news.

ARSA Congratulates Aviation Industry on Safest Decade

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, January 6, 2012 – Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) Executive Vice President Christian Klein released the following statement commending the aviation industry on its stellar safety record as outlined in a recent Associated Press (AP) analysis. The AP reported that the past decade has been the safest in the history civil aviation.

ARSA Weighs in on Proposed FAA ICA Policy

On Jan. 4, ARSA submitted its comments to the FAA’s draft policy regarding the availability of instructions for continued airworthiness (ICA).

The Association believes that the current policy must be rewritten to ensure that the regulations are not used to justify contractual restriction and to discourage such practices.

ARSA Makes Recommendations for Audit Review Project

ARSA is working closely with international aviation authorities to reduce the overwhelming number of contract maintenance audits. The first challenge is to determine the quantifiable burden audits put on repair stations.

To assist in that process, in a Dec. 21 letter to the FAA’s contractor, FJ Leonelli Group, ARSA made several recommendations to a proposed repair station survey. ARSA’s comments will help ensure that the necessary framework is built to address the untenable reality of non-stop, overlapping, and duplicative audits.

NLRB Delays Posting Rule Again

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has again delayed the date by which employers are required to post a notice advising employees of their unionization rights, pushing the compliance deadline to April 30, 2012.

The Board’s action comes in response to a federal court’s request to delay the rule while it considers legal challenges to the rule (including one from ARSA’s partners at the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace).

ARSA Looks for Proper FAA Interpretation of Rules for Major Repair

ARSA requested that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reconsider its position regarding the applicability of "automatically defined" major repairs listed in Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 43, Appendix A. To remedy the issue, ARSA’s Dec. 7 letter asks the agency to issue a new legal interpretation to resolve existing confusion and reverse misunderstandings resulting from the FAA’s previous denials of air carrier petitions on the matter.
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