# Pilot compartment view.
**AGENCY:**
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
**ACTION:**
Correcting amendment.
**SUMMARY:**
This document makes a correction to the final rule published in the *Federal Register* on August 6, 1993 (58 FR 42165). That rule changed airframe and flight airworthiness standards for normal, utility, acrobatic and commuter category airplanes.
**DATES:**
*Effective Date:* This correction is effective on January 5, 2006.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Joan Allen, telephone (202) 267-7037.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
**Need for Correction**
As published, the final regulation contains an error which may be misleading and needs to be clarified.
**List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 23**
Aircraft, Aviation safety, Signs and symbols.
**74 CFR Part 23**
Accordingly, 14 CFR part 23 is corrected by making the following correcting amendment:
1. The authority citation for part 23 continues to read as follows:
**Authority:**
49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701-44702, 44704.
**14 CFR Part 23**
2. Revise paragraph (b) of § 23.773 to read as follows:
§ 23.773
(b) Each pilot compartment must have a means to either remove or prevent the formation of fog or frost on an area of the internal portion of the windshield and side windows sufficiently large to provide the view specified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section. Compliance must be shown under all expected external and internal ambient operating conditions, unless it can be shown that the windshield and side windows can be easily cleared by the pilot without interruption of normal pilot duties.
Issued in Washington, DC, on December 29, 2005.
Anthony F. Fazio,
Director, Office of Rulemaking.