Airworthiness
An Introduction to Aircraft Certification and Operations
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Description
Key Features
- Includes updates throughout to reflect changes to the airworthiness regulations of the two most influential ruling authorities—EASA and FAA
- Includes an update on remotely piloted air systems as well as space vehicles
- Provides guidelines to shape a comprehensive ‘certification map’ including comparisons, explanations, and backgrounds of institutions and processes
- Features a new chapter "Certificates of Airworthiness and Permits to Fly" that provides an overall description of the requirements governing the certificates of airworthiness
Readership
Aerospace engineers and designers, aircraft maintenance engineers, pilots, aircraft operators and owners. Students taking courses on aircraft performance and safety as part of aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering programs
Table of Contents
1. Flight Safety
1.1. Flight safety factors
1.1.1. The machine
2. Airworthiness
2.1 Definition of Airworthiness
2.2 Airworthiness in this book
3. The ICAO and the Civil Aviation Authorities
3.1 The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
3.2 The Civil Aviation Authorities
3.3 The Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA)
3.4 The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)
3.5 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 3.6 "One world, one goal: aviation safety"
4. Airworthiness Requirements
4.1 Requirements, regulations, and standards
4.2 JARs, FARs and EASA Regulations
4.3 The FAA Regulations
4.4 EASA Regulations
4.5 General considerations on Airworthiness Regulations
5. Type Certification
5.0 The ICAO Type Certification
5.1 Type certification of aircraft, engines and propellers
5.2 Approval of parts and appliances
5.3 Type certification of imported products and articles
6. The Type Certification Process
6.1 The ICAO Procedures for Type Certification
6.2 The EASA Type-Certification Process
6.3 The FAA Type-Certification Process
7. Production of Products, Parts and Appliances
7.1 The EASA Production Organisation
7.2 The FAA Production Approval
8. Certificates of Airworthiness and Permits to Fly
8.1 EASA Certificates of Airworthiness and Restricted Certificate of Airworthiness
8.2 EASA Permit to Fly
8.3 FAA Airworthiness Certificates
9. Air operation regulations
9.0 ICAO operational standards
9.1 FAA operational standards
9.2 EASA operational standards
9.3 Additional airworthiness requirements for operations
10. Continuing airworthiness and air operator’s certification
10.0 General
10.1 FAA maintenance/continued airworthiness
10.2 EASA maintenance/continued airworthiness
10.3 Ageing aircraft
10.4 Air operators certification
10.5 Extended operations
10.6 Airworthiness Directives (ADs)
10.7 The master minimum equipment list (MMEL) / minimum equipment list (MEL)
10.8 Safety assessment of foreign aircraft
10.9 Safety Management System (SMS)
11. Airworthiness of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)
11.1 General
11.2 Airworthiness standards
11.2.1 Basic criteria for airworthiness standards
11.3 The state-of-the-art
12. From Airworthiness to ‘Spaceworthiness’?
12.1 General
12.2 The new FAA rules
12.3 A look into the future
Product details
- No. of pages: 552
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2016
- Published: July 12, 2016
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780081009406
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081008881
About the Author
Filippo De Florio
Dr. De Florio has been a sailplane and aeroplane pilot for over 25 years and currently remains a member of the OSTIV Sailplane Development Panel and Honorary Member of UVS International. In June 2008, he was awarded the 1st UAS Pioneer Award instituted 'to honour and thank individuals for their exceptional and dedicated services to the international UAS community'.
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Leon W. Mon May 14 2018
Informative
Very informative, well laid out, well written and easy to navigate. It deals with both the EASA and FAA processes in an easy to understand manner. A must for any one involved in managing aircraft certification activities. Be that minor changes all the way to a type certificate of a large aeroplane.