Special Conditions: Eurocopter France (ECF) Model EC225LP Helicopter, Installation of a Search and Rescue (SAR) Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS)
Special conditions are rules the FAA writes for one design when the standard certification rules do not cover something new about it. These were published October 4, 2012 for Eurocopter France. System: flight controls.
What it applies to
- Applicant
- Eurocopter France
- Makes
- Eurocopter France
- Models
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- Published
- October 4, 2012
- Effective
- November 4, 2012
- The FAA's document
- On the FAA's site
The FAA's summary their words, unchanged
These special conditions amend and supersede those final special conditions No. 29-022-SC, for the ECF model EC225LP helicopter, which were published in the Federal Register on November 6, 2008 (73 FR 65968). A notice proposing this amendment was published December 20, 2010 (75 FR 79312). This amendment modifies the original final special conditions to address comments received and to clarify the intent of some of the requirements. This helicopter, as modified by ECF, will have novel or unusual design features associated with installing an optional SAR AFCS. The applicable airworthiness regulations do not contain adequate or appropriate safety standards for these design features. These special conditions contain the additional safety standards that the Administrator considers necessary to establish a level of safety equivalent to that established by the existing airworthiness standards.
Source: FAA special conditions (final) from the Dynamic Regulatory System; the Federal Register carries the same notices.