The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published a new rule-making task (RMT) “aimed at the development of a regulatory framework that allows a safe implementation of new air mobility, while addressing its challenges and ensuring at least an equivalent level of safety to that ensured by today’s air transport operations. This RMT leads to different streams of activities:
Subtask 1: Electric and hybrid propulsion
Continuing airworthiness requirements for electric and hybrid propulsion for all types of aircraft. It covers also conventional aircraft which are not addressed in the current CAW rules (gyroplanes, tilt rotors, airships).
Subtask 2: Gyroplanes
FCL and AIR OPS requirements to be amended. Related to a current certification project of a gyroplane being also a road vehicle, this subtask will also cover the regulatory aspects of aircraft being multi-modal vehicles (road, sea).
Subtask 3: Tilt rotors
FCL, FSTD and AIR OPS requirements to be amended.
Subtask 3 also addresses the topics previously addressed through RMT.0587 as relevant to the development of the ECQB for tilt-rotor pilot licences.
Subtask 4: Airships
- Subtask 4A addresses continuing airworthiness (CAW) rules (Commission Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014)
- Subtask 4B addresses aircrew rules (Commission Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011)
- Subtask 4C addresses air operations rules (Commission Regulation (EU) No 965/2012)
For more information
https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/terms-of-reference-and-rulemaking-group-compositions/tor-rmt0731
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