At Redbird’s annual migration on Tuesday, Pete Bunce, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, gave an update on the FAA’s efforts to modernize the agency’s airplane certification paradigm. The idea is to make it easier for manufacturers to certify airplanes as appropriate to the airplane’s complexity instead of, in Bunce’s words, certifying them to the “highest common denominator.”
Bunce said that the ASTM committee meeting with industry reps from around the globe gave him hope that the international standards body, ICAO, could arrive at international standards, so an airplane built in one country would be certification compliant in another country.
