Designing to the new CAA TRANSPORT CATEGORY PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

THE new CAA requirements for transport airplanes deal with all airplane characteristics that involve safety in actual operation.

Unfortunately, it appears that the effort to combine past experience with probable trends has resulted in a rather involved set of regulations.

The author attempts here to resolve some of these complexities, and shows the problems involved in designing to them on a reasonable basis.

He also presents his ideas on future trends in design and the regulations.