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FAA Effort to Improve Rotorcraft Safety Could Be Opportunity for Manufacturers

A new proposed tasking from the FAA’s Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee on rotorcraft occupant protection may provide great opportunities for manufacturers of certain rotorcraft parts. The proposed task seeks recommendations on how current occupant protection standards should be made effective for newly manufactured rotorcraft, with a follow-up task asking how to incorporate such protection standards into the existing rotorcraft fleet. Continue reading

FAA Seeks Experts to Develop Airframe Crashworthiness and Ditching Standards

Do you want to serve on a FAA working group that will help the FAA shape regulations affecting safety? Do you have expertise in composite and other non-metallic airframe materials? Can you add to a discussion about airframe crashworthiness? Continue reading

FAA to Update the Engine Endurance Testing Rule

The FAA is forming an FAA-industry working group to look into engine endurance testing pursuant to 14 C.F.R. 33.87. This could be your chance to affect the rewrite of an important engine certification rule! Continue reading

FAA Seeking Working Group Members for Two New Tasks

The FAA has announced that it is assigning two ARAC new tasks: updating the regulations to relfect fly-by-wire and examiing the risks associated with bird ingestion. Each of these could affect the PMA community. The FAA is taking applications for working group membership through April 5, 2013. Continue reading