CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 21.035 Flight tests

CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 21.035

  (1)   Each applicant for a type certificate mentioned in regulation   21.021 (except a type certificate issued under regulation   21.029) must make the tests listed in subregulation   (2). Before making the tests the applicant must show CASA:

  (a)   compliance with the applicable structural requirements of these Regulations; and

  (b)   completion of necessary ground inspections and tests; and

  (c)   that the aircraft conforms with the type design; and

  (d)   that CASA received a flight test report from the applicant (signed, in the case of an application for a type certificate for an aircraft in the transport category, by the applicant's test pilot) containing the results of the tests.

  (2)   Upon showing compliance with subregulation   (1), the applicant must make all flight tests that CASA considers are necessary:

  (a)   to determine compliance with the applicable requirements of these Regulations; and

  (b)   for aircraft to be type certificated under these Regulations, except gliders and except aeroplanes of 2720 kg or less maximum certificated weight in the normal, utility, acrobatic, or commuter category--to determine whether there is reasonable assurance that the aircraft, its components, and its equipment are reliable and function properly.

  (3)   Each applicant must, if practicable, make the tests prescribed in paragraph   (2)(b) upon the aircraft that was used to show compliance with:

  (a)   paragraph   (2)(a); and

  (b)   for rotorcraft--the rotor drive endurance tests prescribed in the applicable airworthiness standards mentioned in Parts   27 and 29 or prescribed by the Part   21 Manual of Standards.

  (4)   Each applicant must show CASA for each flight test (except in a glider or a manned free balloon) that adequate provision is made for the flight test crew for emergency egress and the use of parachutes.

  (5)   Except in a manned free balloon, an applicant must discontinue flight tests under this regulation until the applicant shows CASA that corrective action has been taken, whenever:

  (a)   the applicant's test pilot is unable or unwilling to make any of the required flight tests; or

  (b)   items of non - compliance with requirements are found that may make additional test data meaningless or that would make further testing unduly hazardous.

  (6)   The flight tests prescribed in paragraph   (2)(b) must include:

  (a)   for aircraft incorporating turbine engines of a type not previously used in a type certificated aircraft--at least 300 hours of operation with a full complement of engines that conform to a type certificate; and

  (b)   for all other aircraft--at least 150 hours of operation.

Source   FARs section   21.35 modified.