Steve Daniels, Chief Instructor ETPS. Member of the EASA Flight Test Review Group
Agenda
- Part 21 (Relates to Design and Production Organisations DOA/POA)
- Definition of flight test
- All the requirements for flight test engineer but some requirements for test pilots
- Flight test operational manual
- Part FCL
- Pilot flight test rating
- Flight test instructor
- Part OR : Approved flight test training school
- Applicability / Grandfather/ conversion rules
Introduction
- As Flight testing is a very specific activity and is a key issue for aircraft development and certification, EASA decided to initiate a regulatory task MDM.003.
- EASA proposed flight testing requirements in the relevant NPAs (NPAs 2008 - 17/20/22)
- EASA received via the CRD process, comments specially related to flight test:
- A flight testing review group including industry and Flight test schools was created to review the comments and to propose modifications to regulations