FAA Certification, Operations and Maintenance Orientation
What Will You Learn
- Define the FAA processes for certification of products
- Efficiently manage certification programs
- Describe the principles of Type Certification and Supplemental Type Certification requirements and processes
- Communicate effectively with the FAA on certification programs
- Describe the FAA system, FAA orders, Advisory Circulars, FAA rule making processes
- Identify equivalent level of safety, special conditions and exemptions
- Identify the difference between airworthiness standard and operational rules
- Explain the FAA enforcement procedures and applicant action
Is This Course For You
Materials Provided
Course Requirements
Topics
- Introduction
- International Civil Aeronautics Organization (ICAO)
- FAA Structure, Roles, Responsibilities
- FAA Guidance
- FAA regulatory hierarchy
- FAR parts defined—aeronautics and space
- FAA Designees/Delegations
- Representatives of the administrator
- Designated Engineering Representatives (DER)
- Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR) & Designated Manufacturing Inspection Representative (DMIR)
- Organization Designation Authorization (ODA)
- Type Certification Process (TCP)
- TCP overview and types of certificates issued by FAA
- TCP phase I: conceptual design and certification plan
- TCP phase II: requirement definition; establishment of TC project; certification basis
- TCP phase III: compliance planning; oversight & delegation; conformity for engineering purposes; certification plan
- TCP Phase IV: implementation; compliance data generation activities (Applicant); testing; compliance substantiation activates (Applicant); compliance finding activities (FAA)
- TCP Phase V: post certification activities; continued airworthiness; data retention
- Changes in Type Design
- Major/minor design changes
- Certification basis for changed aviation products
- Field approvals
- STC
- Issuance of Airworthiness Certificates
- Standard airworthiness certificates
- Special airworthiness certificates - experiential
- FAA Validation Under Bi-laterals
- Technical Standard Orders
- Flight Standards and Operations/Maintenance
- Organization and functions
- Regional flight standards division; certificate management office; flight standards district office; international field office; aircraft evaluation group
- Flight operations evaluation board; master minimum equipment list
- Flight standardization board; type rating; differences training
- Aviation maintenance alerts
- Significant difficulty report
- Safety alert information bulletin
- Operations approvals
- Enforcement
- Self-Disclosure
- FAA actions
- Certificate holder actions
- Electronica Data and Retention
- Federal Register
- Regulations.gov
- National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Recommendations