Certification and Safety Training

Hover has trained applicants and 12 civil aviation authorities around the world in aircraft certification and safety. The course covers the certification framework, the safety process techniques, and their integration with hardware and software development, with exercises on electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL), hydrogen fuel cell, and hybrid-electric aircraft.

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Course content

Certification

• Performance- and safety-based certification
• Continued airworthiness

The safety process

• Adapting ARP4761 for small aircraft
• Safety process techniques:
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
  • Markov analysis
  • Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Failure Modes and Effects Summary (FMES)
  • Model-based safety engineering
  • Cascading effects analysis
  • Common cause analysis
  • Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), with detect and avoid, autonomy, motor controller, and battery controller examples

Integration

• Integration of the safety process with the complex hardware and software processes
• Integrated modular architecture considerations

Exercises

• eVTOL aircraft
• Hydrogen fuel cell system powertrain
• Hybrid-electric aircraft

Related analyses

The techniques covered by the course are applied in the following analyses:

• eVTOL safety analysis and propulsion unit safety analysis: fault tree analysis
• Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA): control structures for detect and avoid, a motor controller, and a battery controller
• DO-311A battery safety analysis: a battery-level fault tree
• Regulations and standards gap analysis: hydrogen fuel cell and hybrid-electric powertrains

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