Support with the development and/or management of qualification processes for the procurement, qualification or certification of new rotorcraft or modifications of rotorcraft?
Advice on the applicability and tailoring of regulations, specifications and procedures?
Support with the execution of compliance demonstration activities?
Support with the monitoring of compliance demonstration activities performed by other parties and independent verification of related substantiation documents?
Wide knowledge of:
rotorcraft behaviour and its typical systems, and structural and dynamic properties;
both civil and military airworthiness specifications and performance standards, and of both civil and military rotorcraft flight operations.
Experience with:
developing substantiation methodologies for compliance demonstration in areas such as safety assessment, static, dynamic and fatigue strength, crash resistance, bird strike, flight in icing conditions and environmental conditions, EMI/EMC/HIRF, effects of lightning.
the management and/or execution of compliance demonstration activities, such as analysis, laboratory tests (at our own facilities or at facilities of other companies) and helicopter ground and flight tests.
supporting both civil and military operators, materiel procurement and management organizations, and civil and military aviation authorities.
Compliance Verification Engineers (CVEs) capable of operating under a Part 21 or similar design organization.