# Presentation: 487592

## Anchorage Aircraft Certification Office

_**Anchorage Aircraft Certification Office**_
**Peter Pupator **
**Aerospace Engineer, ACE-115N**
**Peter.Pupator@faa.gov**

**C**ertification **P**rocess **I**mprovement

## Overview

- Introduction to Certification Process Improvement (CPI)
- Overview of Project Specific Certification Plans (PSCP)
- Implementing CPI

## Introduction

- An Industry Guide to Product Certification
- (as developed in January 1999 by)
**G**eneral **A**viation **M**anufacturer’s **A**ssoc
**A**erospace **I**ndustries **A**ssociation
- FAA
- 			AVR
- AFS-1				AIR-1

## Introduction

- Why the Change
- Increased activity in the Aviation Industry
- Products are more complex
- New technologies appearing rapidly
- Aircraft Certification Services focus resources to enhance safety
- Continued Operational Safety Management
- Regulations
- Type Certification
- Organizational Development
- Reduce cycle time to certify products

## Background

- CPI based on responsibilities of each party
- Aviation Industry responsible to insure safety
- FAA responsible to promote safety
- CPI enhances the current certification process
- Builds on trust between FAA and Industry
- Reinforces accountability for both

## Vision

- The Vision of CPI
- Timely and efficient product certification
- Clearly defined roles responsibilities, and accountability of all involved
- In AK upfront education of Public to requirements from AIR side of FAA.

## Product

- The Process is the Product;
- (if the process is poor the product may stink)
**T**ype **C**ertificate **D**ata **S**heets
**S**upplemental **T**ype **C**ertificates
**P**roduction **M**anufacturing **A**pprovals
**T**ype **S**tandard **O**rders
- (the goal is to have ***safe aircraft*** through ***safe designs***)

## CPI Success

- CPI Emphasis
- Up-front planning
- Efficient use of team members (use of designees, DER/DAR)
- Early issue identification and resolution (cert. basis, testing, requirements)
- More efficient use of FAA/Applicant resources
- Reduced certification cost and time

## Elements of CPI

- Partnership for Safety Plan
- Working agreement between the FAA and Applicant
- Umbrella agreement
- Independent of any specific Project
- Project Specific Certification Plan
- Working agreement
- Project Specific

## Guidance

- What kind of guidance is available?
*The FAA & Industry Guide to Product Certification*
*The FAA & Industry Guide to Avionics Approvals*
*Advisory Circular 21-40 Application Guide for Obtaining a Supplemental Type Certificate*

## Plans (PSP)

- Partnership For Safety Plan
- Define working relationship between FAA and Applicant
- Plan developed by FAA and Applicant
- Sets forth agreement on:
- Project Planning, communication and project management
- use of designees
- Description of conformity inspections and production approval process
- Issue resolution process
- Operating Norms

## Plans (PSCP)

- Project Specific Certification Plan (PSCP)
- Based on specific project requirements
- Developed by both FAA and Applicant
- Up-front project planning
- Certification schedule, certification basis, and means of compliance
- Methods for implementing and managing the project
- Means to resolve issues

## Major Elements of PSCP

- Purpose
- Product Certification
- Project Description
- System/Modification description
- Project Schedule
- Certification Basis
- Means of Compliance
- Communication and coordination
- Delegation

## Major Elements of PSCP

- Product Certification (Continued)
- Testing Plan
- Conformity
- Compliance documentation
- Production Certification
- PMA
- Post Certification Requirements
- Instructions for Continued Airworthiness

## Major Elements of PSCP

- Purpose (Project description)
- Identify the intent of the certification Plan.  Will the applicant be requesting a one-only Supplemental Type, Multiple STC approval.  Is the applicant planning on producing parts.
-  System Description
- A brief description of the alteration should be included.  This description should provide enough detail to support certification bases and means of compliance.
- Project Schedule
- A detailed schedule should be developed that identifies the deliverable items, date to be delivered and the responsible party.

## Major Elements of PSCP

- Certification Basis
- The certification basis will need to be identified. Also the specific paragraphs that are affected by the change need to be listed.
- Means of Compliance
- How will compliance be shown.
- Inspection, similarity, analysis, testing, or a combination of these (Compliance Checklist)
- If a unique methodology is to be used it should be noted in the Certification Plan.  The approval of certification plan does not approve the unique methodology.

## Major Elements of PSCP

- Delegation
- The FAA designees should be listed and what their responsibilities will be for this project.
- Show items to be approved and recommended for approval by individual designees
- Testing Plan
- Indicate what tests will be conducted.
- Identify who will be responsible for writing the test plans

## Major Elements of PSCP

- Conformity
- Indicate what conformities will be conducted and who will do the conformities.
- Instructions for Continued Airworthiness
- what will be done to address Instructions for Continued Airworthiness and when it would be completed

## What are we doing to Implement CPI
Customer Service Initiative
FAA is committed to ideas of CPI
Certification Plan required before we begin working on a project.

- Customer Service Initiative
- FAA is committed to ideas of CPI
- Certification Plan required before we begin working on a project.

**CPI Implementation**

## Questions