The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have recently established new light aircraft certification rules that introduce significant changes to the current regulations. The changes include moving from prescriptive design requirements to performance-based standards, transferring many of the acceptable means of compliance out of the rules and into consensus standards. In addition, the FAA/EASA rules change the performance requirements associated with some of the more salient safety issues regarding light aircraft. One significant change is the elimination of spin recovery demonstration. The new rules now call for enhanced stall warning and aircraft handling characteristics that demonstrate resistance to inadvertent departure from controlled flight. The means of compliance with these changes in a safe, cost-effective manner is a challenging problem. This paper discusses existing approaches to reducing the likelihood of departure from controlled flight and introduces a new approach, dubbed Departure Aversion, which allows applicants to tailor the amount of departure resistance, stall warning, and enhanced safety equipment to meet the new proposed rules. The Departure Aversion approach gives applicants the freedom to select the most cost-effective portfolio for their design, while meeting the safety intent of the new rules, by ensuring that any combination of the selected approaches will be at a higher equivalent level of safety than today's status quo.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Development of a New Departure Aversion Standard for Light Aircraft


    Contributors:
    N. K. Borer (author)

    Publication date :

    2017


    Size :

    17 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






    Development of a New Departure Aversion Standard for Light Aircraft (AIAA 2017-3438)

    Borer, Nicholas K. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2017


    Development of Approach and Departure Aircraft Speed Profiles

    Wynnyk, Lisa / Lunsford, Clark R. / Tittsworth, Jeffrey A. et al. | AIAA | 2017