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Part 23 rules mark a new dawn for general aviation

February 21, 2017 By iapba-user

After years in the making the FAA have released its rewrite of the Part 23 regulations governing small aircraft, making them more performance based and less prescriptive.

The new rules for Part 23 make a lot of sense and have drawn universal praise by the private and business aviation industry.

The rule takes effect in eight months, has been worked up between the FAA and EASA, and moves the away from its history of establishing detailed prescriptive standards for new products moving to a performance-based approach.

This new certification ruling establishes performance objectives for new products and gives the manufacturer flexibility on how it meets those objectives.

The thinking behind the new rules is that the FAA no longer want to tell manufacturers how to build things. The FAA and indeed EASA know they are not in the engineering business of design and manufacture, and instead of requiring certain technologies or designs, they are defining the performance objectives they want to be achieved.

The rule applies to aircraft that weigh less than 19,000 pounds and with 19 or fewer seats. It opens the door for the use of standards established by an international ASTM committee. More than 300 people representing aviation authorities from seven countries, manufacturers, design specialists and a range of other interested parties are part of the ASTM committee. In the past three years alone, that committee has agreed upon 21 standards and is ready to review its next set of technologies.

Link: FAA small aircraft

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: airworthiness, EASA, faa, part 23, regulations, small aircraft

FAA rewrite of Part 23 for small airplanes

January 2, 2017 By iapba-user

The FAA has amended its airworthiness standards for normal, utility, acrobatic, and commuter category airplanes by replacing current prescriptive design requirements with performance-based airworthiness standards. The FAA’s rewrite of Part 23 small airplane certification rule also replace the current weight and propulsion divisions in small airplane regulations with performance- and risk-based divisions for airplanes with a maximum seating capacity of 19 passengers or less and a maximum takeoff weight of 19,000 pounds or less.

The new rules amend Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 23 enact additional airworthiness standards to address certification for flight in icing conditions, enhanced stall characteristics, and minimum control speeds for multiengine airplanes. Additionally, revised rules will apply to Part 91, 121 and 135 operations to correspond with the new airworthiness standards.

Effective: 30 August 2017.

Filed Under: Compliance Tagged With: faa, part 23, small airplane certification rule

Enhanced flight vision systems

December 13, 2016 By iapba-user

Enhanced flight vision systems (EFVS) have been approved by the FAA to fly certain IFR (instrument flight rule) approaches to landing in lieu of “natural vision” from the previously allowed elevation of 100 feet above the touchdown.

Prior to this final rule, persons could only use an Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) in lieu of natural vision to descend below the decision altitude to 100 feet

The new rule goes into effect March 21, 2017.

Filed Under: Compliance Tagged With: efvs, enhanced flight vision system, faa, IFR, instrument flight rule

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