The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) now expects to publish the final version of its means of compliance for its Special Condition VTOL type certification rules in early 2021. EASA confirmed to FutureFlight that it deferred planned publication in December because it needed more time to take account of the large volume of industry comments it received to draft proposals published on May 25, 2020.
An EASA spokesman also said that the final version of the means of compliance for a Special Condition for certifying hybrid and electric propulsion systems will be published in the early part of this year. The agency published its proposals for these in January 2020. Despite the delays in releasing final versions of these two sets of means of compliance for certifying eVTOL aircraft, the spokesman said the agency is “on track” with its plans for introducing the new regulations.
