Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Part 135 pilot rest and duty requirements will come under review once again as part of a new congressional mandate.&nbsp;Section 315 of the sweeping five-year <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/302/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22FAA+Reauthorization+Act%22%5D%7D&amp;r=3#toc-H6F035E5FF23D4BE9AD720866966AB15E">FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018</a>, signed into law on October 5, calls for the creation of an aviation rulemaking committee (ARC) within 180 days specifically to make recommendations on Part 135 pilot rest and duty rules.&nbsp;

 


While aimed at Part 135, the measure stipulates that the ARC include both Part 135 and 91K (fractional) representatives, labor leaders, and safety experts. The ARC will review data gathered from aviation safety reporting programs, scientific data from aviation-related fatigue and sleep research, and prior recommendations made on the topic.&nbsp;Accommodations for small businesses must be considered, as well as the diversity of operations conducted under Part 135.&nbsp;Congress directed the FAA to report on the recommendations within two years and follow with a notice of proposed rulemaking a year after that.

 


The final measure adopted had been altered from the original proposal, which had called for a tighter time frame for the ARC and mandated implementation of the recommendations. The National Air Transportation Association had pushed for the expanded time frame and praised the focus on small business issues and the need to accommodate diversity.

 


The ARC is the latest in decades-long efforts to update pilot rest and duty rules, stemming from efforts in the 1990s that would have applied a commercial airline approach to Part 135 to the subsequent efforts of the Part 135 ARC in the early 2000s that developed much more tailored recommendations for on-demand and fractional operators.&nbsp;However, those recommendations remained a lower priority for an agency sifting through numerous mandates from Congress.&nbsp;

 


The latest measure resurrects these efforts and puts them back on the front burner.

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