In the first few days after the new FAR on fractional ownership hit the street last month, the aviation community was reacting with tempered optimism. While many praised the cooperative effort between the FAA and the Fractional Ownership Aviation Rulemaking Committee (FOARC) in creating the long-awaited final rule, they also reserved substantive comment until they had further time to analyze the result.
A proposal to relax the runway landing requirements for on-demand Part 135 operators from 60 percent of the available runway length to 85 percent became a casualty of the FAA’s final rulemaking. The agency not only denied that proposal but also stiffened the requirements for fractional operators to the same 60 percent, thus eliminating access to some airports that were heretofore legal for some aircraft types. The FAA argued that the deficiencies in predicting landing performance that inspired the original landing-distance margin in the 1930s have still not been rectified.
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