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Former FAA Manager Giles Discusses New ICA Policies and Old ICA Rules
On October 4 at the MARPA Conference, Carol Giles, retired FAA Maintenance Division Manager and current President of Carol E. Giles & Associates, discussed some of the regulatory challenges and...
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Your Input Needed: How Can the FAA Manufacturing Regulations Better Protect...
The FAA is working to incorporate Safety Management Systems (SMS) elements into the existing Part 21 regulations for design and production. As part of this endeavor, they have asked MARPA to assist...
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FAA Proposes New Design Standards for Chemical Oxygen Generator Security
The FAA has published a proposed rule on chemical oxygen generator security and a related draft advisory circular (AC) concerning acceptable means of showing compliance with the new rule. The...
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FAA Finalizes “Critical Parts” for Propellors
The FAA is has amended the airworthiness standards for airplane propellers to require TC applicants to identify critical parts. Continue reading »
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Early Notice of an Opportunty to Influence the Future of Aviation Manufacturing
In mid-February, the FAA ARC will publish Terms of Reference describing the work of each of several working groups that will be helping to craft the Part 21 language as well as developing a new...
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Seeking Working Group Members to Help Develop New FAA Manufacturing...
Have you ever wanted to influence the regulations that affect your business? Well, NOW is your best opportunity to do so! The Part 21/SMS Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) is undertaking a major...
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Comments Sought on Proposed FAA Advisory Circular for Engine and APU...
The FAA has released a new draft Advisory Circular that is intended to describe acceptable statistical methods for developing substantiating data for comparative test and analysis compliance findings...
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MARPA Works on the Future of FAA Certification
MARPA attended the SMS/Part 21 Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) which is developing the new rules that will affect certification and approval of aviation products and articles. This project will...
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FAA Guidance on Major Repair/Alteration Data: Open for Comment
FAA draft guidance on major repair and alteration data approval is open for public comment through June 12, 2013. This is a significant draft gudance document that is worth reviewing by anyone or who...
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Help Shape the Future of Part 21!
The SMS/Part 21 Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) will affect each and every manufacturer of PMA. MARPA will therefore be there every step of the way, working to ensure that the interests of PMA...
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FAA Commits to a Regulatory Balance
FAA Director Dorenda Baker explained that the regulators need to adopt a balanced approach to certification oversight in order to ensure that aircraft articles and products are safe without having a...
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What Does it Cost YOU to Meet FAA Requirements?
What are your cost centers associated with obtaining a PMA? We need to baseline the costs associated with certification/approval to support FAA efforts to improve the design approval system. Your input...
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Vibration Rule – Still In the Works?
We spoke with several FAA policy-makers about the Engine Vibration rule change which had been published and then withdrawn in 2012. The FAA is exploring the reasons for MARPA’s concerns over the...
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Help MARPA Understand Your Costs of Regulatory Compliance
MARPA continues to work diligently in support of the FAA’s Part 21 ARC. We previously posted on the MARPA blog a request for our members’ input on what data we should be tracking in order to best...
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Lubricating Oil Approvals – New FAA Proposed Guidance
The FAA has published for public comment a draft advisory circular: AC 20-24D, Approval of Propulsion Fuels and Lubricating Oils. Comments are due to the FAA at the end of September, so please get us...
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What Should Be the Minimum Standards that Apply to Any Company that Holds...
The FAA is changing the manufacturing rules. How much of an organization SHOULD a small company be required to have as a minimum FAA standard? We will be looking to the PMA community to help answer...
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MARPA Seeks Your Input as We Work to Improve the Manufacturing Reporting...
The PMA industry has an opportunity to affect the FAA reporting rules for manufacturers! 14 C.F.R. 21.3 requires reporting to the FAA of certain failures, malfunctions, and defects. The FAA's...
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FAA to Update the Engine Endurance Testing Rule
The FAA is forming an FAA-industry working group to look into engine endurance testing pursuant to 14 C.F.R. 33.87. This could be your chance to affect the rewrite of an important engine certification...
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FAA Engineering and Production to Merge!
Today's Federal Register announced that the manufacturing policy-makers in the engineering division and the production division at FAA Headquarters will merge into a single unit. David Hempe, who leads...
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New FAA Policy on Coordination of Engine and Propeller PMAs
The FAA has issued two new PMA guidance documents for comment (one for engine PMAs and one for propeller PMAs). Each of them would require additional internal FAA coordination for certain engine and...
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