sUAS Aviation Rulemaking Committee

System Certification Working GroupMeeting #1

Andrew Roberts

June 26, 2008

Admin

EvacuationBathroomsBAERI Support – Mark Sittloh

Drinks, food and lunchWill take minutes for the CWG

NASA ASP Support – Randy AlbertsonVenue arrangementsBAERI Support

Dinner?

Agenda• 0830 Opening Remarks and Introductions – Andrew Roberts• 0845 Discuss ARC and CWG scope – Andrew Roberts• 0900 FAA discussion – Rich Posey• 0930 Resources and current external standards• ASTM – Dan Schulz• RTCA – Bryan Hudson• 1015 Break• 1030 NASA/DOD Example Airworthiness Process• LARC/WFF - Mike Logan / Jeff Bland• DFRC – Brad Flick / Mike Marston• Navy/USMC sUAS Cert effort – Steve Cook• 1140 CWG Structure and Schedules/Telecoms and assignments– All• 1200 Lunch (working lunch - CS will need to account for on Travel)

AGENDA• 1300 Establish Subcommittee’s• 1315 Breakout Sessions for (establish leadership, meeting/telecom

schedules, assignments) - Working Group Coordinating Committee - Initial Airworthiness and Vehicle Certification Subcommittee - Continued Certification and Airworthiness Subcommittee - sUAS Registration Subcommittee• 1430 Reports from Breakouts (15 minutes) - Working Group Coordinating Committee - Initial Airworthiness and Vehicle Certification Subcommittee - Continued Certification and Airworthiness Subcommittee - sUAS Registration Subcommittee• 1530 Break• 1545 Review Tasks • 1600 - 1630 End

Introduction of Working Group Members

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Advisory Circular 91-57 (June 9, 1981)Model Aircraft Operating Standards

• Covers “model” aircraft– Intended only for recreation or

competition

• No enforcement - no regulatory basis

• “Encourages voluntary compliance”

– ≤ 400 feet – Advise ATC if within 3 miles of

airport– “Full scale” aircraft have right-

of-way

• Does not limit weight and speed

• Misapplied to small UAS

   

Intended only for recreation and

hobbyist

Effective in conjunction with Academy of Model

Aeronautics Safety Code

• Identifies alternate methods of compliance with the applicable regulations of 14 CFR parts 61 and 91when evaluating proposed UAS operations• Applies to civil (special airworthiness certificate) and public operators (COA)• Concern is safe UAS operations among all users of the NAS

– Non-cooperative aircraft and other airborne operations not reliably identifiable by radar (i.e., balloons, gliders, parachutists, etc)

• Applicants must make a safety case for alternate means of compliance to be considered– Sufficient data– Safety study must include a hazard analysis, risk assessment, and other

appropriate documentation that support an “extremely improbable” determination

Interim Operational Approval Guidance 08-01

- UAS Operations in the NAS – March 13, 2008

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ARC Formation ProcessStart

Project is approved by Rulemaking Management

Council

FAA forms the ARC

ARC provides recommendation to the FAA

FAA takes appropriate

actions

Done

ARCs are chartered by the administrator, managed by the office of primary responsibility (SBS) and tasked by the FAA

ARC charters generally expire 2 years after their formation, they can be re-chartered if necessary

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NPRM Development

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May ‘08

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• FAA• Gov’t Personal

• Industry• Stakeholders

ARC

• ARC Charter/Mission/General Goals/ARC Specifics Presented by Mr. Doug Davis

– Committee is starting a baseline that doesn’t exist in this country.

– Suggested a goal of the ARC to provide a formal recommendation within nine months. He recognized that this is a very aggressive goal.

– Requested that the ARC members understand the sensibility of issues being discussed. Information should remain within the ARC.

– The ARC is tasked to address those operations within visual line of sight, VFR conditions, during daylight hours.

ARC Objectives • Propose regulatory language that allows for

the maximum safe operations supported by the current technologies, while harmonizing with current manned aviation.

• Provide consensus recommendations to the FAA on best way to proceed with UAS rulemaking activities.

ARC Schedule

• 1st Meeting – May 27-29

• 2nd Meeting – July 9-10

• 3rd Meeting – Aug 26-28

• 4th Meeting – Oct 14-16 (1st Draft Due)

Committee discussed notional times for actions/due dates a. Work to be done by October 1st, 2008 b. Final Document due by December 15th, 2008 c. Final Meeting by January 20-22nd, 2009 d. SFAR due date: February 28th, 2009

ARC Working Groups

• Flight Crew Paul McDuffee

• System CertificationAndrew Roberts

• Operations Andrew Latcher

• Spectrum Fred Marks

• Model Richard Hanson

• SFAR Support Doug Marshall

Systems Certification Working Group (CWG) Scope

• The small UAS Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) has established limiting our process to vehicles that are only operated – in visual line-of-sight– daylight only– no more than 400 feet in class C, D and E airspace.– no higher than 1200 feet in class G airspace. – These limits may be reduced further as we develop the rules and run the safety

analysis. • The scope of this working group encompasses the development of

regulations pertaining to the small UAS’s in the following areas. – Initial Certification and Airworthiness– Continued Certification and Airworthiness– Registration

• For each of these areas we will have two or three types of class of UAS to develop regulations for. These classes will be for simpler systems, medium systems and complex systems, the ARC will need to establish the parameters and values that will apply to separate these two or three classes.

System Certification WGCWG – Coord. Committee

Chair – Andrew RobertsCo-Chair – Frank JonesSecretary – Mark Sittloh

FAA Rep – Richard PoseyRulemaking Coord – Doug Marshall

Initial Certification & AirworthinessChair

Co-Chair ARC Rep – Dan Schulz

RegistrationChair

Co-ChairARC Rep – Doug Marshall

Continued Certification & AirworthinessChair

Co-ChairARC Rep – Fred Marks

CWG Ground Rules

• Those not participating will be removed

• Will not be very willing to add new members to the CWG – You can have folks support you but they will

not be invited to our CWG meetings– Subgroup leads will run their own subgroup

participation

Work Assignment• Break into three subgroups (ASTM folks split into the three groups)

– Initial Certification and Airworthiness– Continuing Certification and Airworthiness – Registration

• Work assignment – To Report at 1430

• Leadership – Chair, Co-Chair, Other positions if any• Meeting Schedule• Telecon Schedule• How the subgroup plans to build the regulation Outline

– To have ready at our next meeting – August 7, 2008• Regulation Outline – Titles and subsection Titles (first group to complete can

select venue for follow-on meeting - $5K max)– 1st draft ready at our following meeting – Sept 18-19, 2008– Follow-on work will be TBD based on ARC review