Regulations and Government
FAA Proposes Updates for Helicopter Certification Rules
The proposal aims to address obsolete certification standards and overly burdensome means of compliance.

The FAA is seeking comment on a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would broadly update FAR Parts 27 and 29 that govern the certification standards for civil rotorcraft. Comments are due on or before Jan. 30, 2018. As proposed, the changes are designed to reduce or eliminate the need to obtain special condition approvals for the certification of new rotorcraft and incorporate requirements of equivalent level of safety (ELOS) findings and means of compliance (MOC) issue papers that the FAA has imposed/issued for improving certain design features.