Honeywell Publishes Guide on U.S/European AAM Aircraft Certification Rules

Hon­ey­well launched this week, the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) industry’s first cer­ti­fi­ca­tion ref­er­ence guide across key vehi­cle seg­ments, reports a press release. Com­plex reg­u­la­tions are being devel­oped to enable the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and oper­a­tions of crewed and uncrewed AAM vehi­cles designed to trans­port peo­ple and car­go. Until now, there’s been no place these reg­u­la­tions had been com­pre­hen­sive­ly tracked.

The release explains, “Busi­ness and gov­ern­ment lead­ers, engi­neers, media and any­one else with an inter­est in the future of flight can use the Hon­ey­well State of UAS and UAM Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Guide to help nav­i­gate and com­mu­ni­cate the com­plex­i­ties of vehi­cle cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and oper­a­tional approval across mul­ti­ple vehi­cle seg­ments.”

Jia Xu

Jia Xu, CTO of UAM and UASat Hon­ey­well Aero­space, com­ment­ed, “Because Hon­ey­well pro­vides cer­ti­fi­able, mis­sion-crit­i­cal sys­tems that make AAM vehi­cles fly, it’s essen­tial that we under­stand the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion land­scape across all AAM seg­ments.”

He con­tin­ued, “We ini­tial­ly devel­oped this cer­ti­fi­ca­tion sum­ma­ry table as a quick ref­er­ence for our own team; how­ev­er, we quick­ly realised that the infor­ma­tion here can ben­e­fit the wider indus­try. We intend to update this doc­u­ment reg­u­lar­ly to help AAM com­pa­nies keep pace with reg­u­la­to­ry devel­op­ment.”

Indus­try pro­fes­sion­als can access this doc­u­ment at the fol­low­ing link.

https://aerospace.honeywell.com/us/en/products-and-services/industry/urban-air-mobility

The cer­ti­fi­ca­tion ref­er­ence guide will sum­marise evolv­ing Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) and Euro­pean Union Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Agency (EASA) rules across mul­ti­ple AAM seg­ments. It also links to source doc­u­ments that AAM pro­fes­sion­als can ref­er­ence to bet­ter under­stand detailed cer­ti­fi­ca­tion require­ments.

Emi­ly Kim­ball, Deputy Direc­tor of Com­mer­cial Drone Alliance, remarked, “The Hon­ey­well cer­ti­fi­ca­tion ref­er­ence guide can help UAS and AAM man­u­fac­tur­ers, oper­a­tors or any­one with an inter­est in the indus­try, to quick­ly get up to speed on the cur­rent cer­ti­fi­ca­tion land­scape across key advanced avi­a­tion seg­ments.”

The infor­ma­tion pre­sent­ed in the Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Guide is pro­vid­ed “as-is” and with­out war­ran­ty. 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.honeywell.com/us/en

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