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Dated: May 23, 2011.
Rebecca Ewing,
Acting Executive Secretary, U.S. Department
of the Treasury.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 25
[Docket No. NM451; Special Conditions No.
25–426–SC]
Special Conditions: Bombardier Model
BD–700–1A10 and BD–700–1A11
Airplanes, Head-up Display (HUD) With
Video Synthetic Vision System (SVS)
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Final special conditions.
AGENCY:
These special conditions are
issued for Bombardier Model BD–700–
1A10 and BD–700–1A11 airplanes.
These airplanes, as modified by
Bombardier Inc., will have a novel or
unusual design feature associated with
a SVS that displays video imagery on
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the HUD. The applicable airworthiness
regulations do not contain adequate or
appropriate safety standards for this
design feature. 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.
DATES: Effective Date: June 30, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dale
Dunford, FAA, ANM–111, Transport
Airplane Directorate, Aircraft
Certification Service, 1601 Lind
Avenue, SW., Renton, Washington,
98057–3356; telephone (425) 227–2239
facsimile (425) 227–1100.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On January 26, 2007, Transport
Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA), on
behalf of Bombardier Inc., located in
Montreal, Canada, applied to the New
York Aircraft Certification Office
(NYACO) for FAA approval of a typedesign change on the Bombardier Model
BD–700–1A10 and BD–700–1A11
airplanes. Per Type Certificate Data
Sheet (TCDS) T00003NY, those aircraft
models are known under the marketing
designation of Global Express and
Global 5000, respectively. The change is
to introduce the Rockwell-Collins
avionics suite to replace the existing
Honeywell Primus 2000EP avionics
suite. The change includes the
installation of a SVS that displays video
imagery.
Video display on the HUD constitutes
new and novel technology for which the
FAA has no certification criteria. Title
14, Code of Federal Regulations
(14 CFR) 25.773 does not permit visual
distortions and reflections that could
interfere with the pilot’s normal duties
and was not written in anticipation of
such technology. Other applications for
certification of such technology are
anticipated in the near future and
magnify the need to establish FAA
safety standards that can be applied
consistently for all such approvals.
Special conditions are therefore issued
as prescribed under the provisions of
§ 21.16.
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Type Certification Basis
Under the provisions of 14 CFR
21.101, Bombardier Inc. must show that
the Bombardier Model BD–700–1A10
and BD–700–1A11 airplanes, as
changed, continue to meet the
applicable provisions of the regulations
incorporated by reference in T00003NY
or the applicable regulations in effect on
the date of application for the change.
The regulations incorporated by
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reference in the type certificate are
commonly referred to as the ‘‘original
type certification basis.’’ The regulations
incorporated by reference in T00003NY
are as follows:
Based on the application date, January
26, 2007, under the provisions of
§ 21.101, the applicable typecertification standards for the
modification to the Bombardier Model
BD–700–1A10 and BD–700–1A11
airplanes are as follows:
Airworthiness & Environmental
Standards for Components and Areas
Not Affected by the Change
The original certification basis for the
Bombardier Model BD–700–1A10 and
BD–700–1A11 airplanes shown on
TCDS T00003NY, Revision 13.
Airworthiness and Environmental
Standards for Components and Areas
Affected by the Change
14 CFR part 25, effective February 1,
1965, including the latest applicable
requirements of Amendments 25–1
through 25–119.
If the Administrator finds that the
applicable airworthiness regulations
(i.e., 14 CFR part 25) do not contain
adequate or appropriate safety standards
for the Bombardier Model BD–700–
1A10 and BD–700–1A11 airplanes
because of a novel or unusual design
feature, special conditions are
prescribed under the provisions of
14 CFR 21.16.
Special conditions are initially
applicable to the model for which they
are issued. Should the type certificate
for that model be amended later to
include any other model that
incorporates the same or similar novel
or unusual design feature, or should any
other model already included on the
same type certificate be modified to
incorporate the same or similar novel or
unusual design feature, the special
conditions would also apply to the other
model under § 21.101.
In addition to the applicable
airworthiness regulations and special
conditions, the Bombardier Model BD–
700–1A10 and BD–700–1A11 airplanes
must comply with the fuel-vent and
exhaust-emission requirements of
14 CFR part 34 and the noise
certification requirements of 14 CFR
part 36.
The FAA issues special conditions, as
defined in 14 CFR 11.19, in accordance
with § 11.38, and they become part of
the type-certification basis under
14 CFR 21.101.
Novel or Unusual Design Features
The Bombardier Model BD–700–1A10
and BD–700–1A11 airplanes will
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incorporate the following novel or
unusual design features:
An SVS that displays video imagery
on a HUD.
Discussion
For many years the FAA has
approved, on transport category
airplanes, the use of HUD that display
flight symbology, without a significant
visual obscuration of the outside view.
When the FAA began to evaluate the
display of enhanced vision system
(EVS) imagery on the HUD, significant
potential to obscure the outside view
became apparent, contrary to the
requirements of 14 CFR 25.773. This
rule does not permit distortions and
reflections in the pilot-compartment
view that can interfere with normal
duties, and the rule was not written in
anticipation of such technology. The
video image potentially interferes with
the pilot’s ability to see the natural
scene in the center of the forward field
of view. Therefore, the FAA issued
special conditions for such HUD/EVS
installations to ensure that the level of
safety required by § 25.773 would be
met even when the image might
partially obscure the outside view.
While many of the characteristics of
EVS and SVS video differ in some ways,
they have one thing in common: The
potential for interference with the
outside view through the airplane
windshield. The FAA issues special
conditions for new and novel
technologies to achieve equivalent
levels of safety.
Although the pilot readily may be
able to see around and through small,
individual, stroke-written symbols on
the HUD, the pilot may not be able to
see around or through the image that
fills the display without some
interference of the outside view.
Nevertheless, the SVS may be capable of
meeting the required level of safety
when considering the combined view of
the image and the outside scene visible
to the pilot through the image. It is
essential that the pilot can use this
combination of image and natural view
of the outside scene as safely and
effectively as the pilot-compartment
view currently available without the
SVS image.
Because § 25.773 does not provide for
any alternatives or considerations for
such a new and novel system, the FAA
establishes safety requirements that
assure an equivalent level of safety and
effectiveness of the pilot-compartment
view as intended by that rule. The
purpose of this special condition is to
provide the unique pilot-compartmentview requirements for the SVS
installation.
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Discussion of Comments
Notice of Proposed Special
Conditions no. 25–11–10–SC for the
Bombardier Model BD–700–1A10 and
BD–700–1A11 airplanes was published
in the Federal Register on March 28,
2011 (76 FR 17062). No comments were
received, and the special conditions are
adopted as proposed.
Applicability
As discussed above, these special
conditions are applicable to the
Bombardier Model BD–700–1A10 and
BD–700–1A11 airplanes. Should
Bombardier Inc. apply at a later date for
a change to the type certificate to
include another model incorporating the
same novel or unusual design feature,
the special conditions would apply to
that model as well.
Conclusion
This action affects only certain novel
or unusual design features on
Bombardier Model BD–700–1A10 and
BD–700–1A11 airplanes. It is not a rule
of general applicability.
List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 25
Aircraft, Aviation safety, Reporting
and recordkeeping requirements.
The authority citation for these
special conditions is as follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701,
44702, 44704.
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The Special Conditions
Accordingly, pursuant to the
authority delegated to me by the
Administrator, the following special
conditions are issued as part of the typecertification basis for Bombardier Model
BD–700–1A10 and BD–700–1A11
airplanes.
1. During any phase of flight in which
it is to be used, the SVS imagery on the
HUD must not degrade flight safety or
interfere with the effective use of
outside visual references for required
pilot tasks.
2. To avoid unacceptable interference
with the safe and effective use of the
pilot-compartment view, the SVS must
meet the following requirements:
a. The SVS design must minimize
unacceptable display characteristics or
artifacts (e.g., terrain shadowing against
a dark background) that obscure the
desired image of the scene, impair the
pilot’s ability to detect and identify
visual references, mask flight hazards,
distract the pilot, or otherwise degrade
task performance or safety.
b. Control of SVS image display
brightness must be sufficiently effective
in dynamically changing background
(ambient) lighting conditions to avoid
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pilot distraction, impairment of the
pilot’s ability to detect and identify
visual references, masking of flight
hazards, or to otherwise degrade task
performance or safety. If automatic
control for image brightness is not
provided, it must be shown that a
single, manual setting is satisfactory for
the range of lighting conditions
encountered during a time-critical, highworkload phase of flight (e.g., lowvisibility instrument approach).
c. A readily accessible control must be
provided that permits the pilot to
immediately deactivate and reactivate
display of the SVS image on demand,
without having to remove hands from
the flight controls and throttles.
d. The SVS image on the HUD must
not impair the pilot’s use of guidance
information, or degrade the presentation
and pilot awareness of essential flight
information displayed on the HUD, such
as alerts, airspeed, attitude, altitude and
direction, approach guidance,
windshear guidance, TCAS resolution
advisories, or unusual-attitude recovery
cues.
e. The SVS image and the HUD
symbols, which are spatially referenced
to the pitch scale, outside view, and
image, must be scaled and aligned (i.e.,
conformal) to the external scene. In
addition, the SVS image and the HUD
symbols—when considered singly or in
combination—must not be misleading,
cause pilot confusion, or increase
workload. Airplane attitudes or crosswind conditions may cause certain
symbols (e.g., the zero-pitch line or
flight-path vector) to reach field-of-view
limits, such that they cannot be
positioned conformally with the image
and external scene. In such cases, these
symbols may be displayed but with an
altered appearance that makes the pilot
aware that they are no longer displayed
conformally (for example, ‘‘ghosting’’).
The combined use of symbology and
runway image may not be used for path
monitoring when path symbology is no
longer conformal.
f. A HUD system used to display SVS
images must, if previously certified,
continue to meet all of the requirements
of the original approval.
3. The safety and performance of the
pilot tasks associated with the use of the
pilot-compartment view must be not be
degraded by the display of the SVS
image. These tasks include the
following:
a. Detection, accurate identification
and maneuvering, as necessary, to avoid
traffic, terrain, obstacles, and other
flight hazards.
b. Accurate identification and
utilization of visual references required
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for every task relevant to the phase of
flight.
4. Appropriate limitations must be
stated in the Operating Limitations
section of the Airplane Flight Manual to
prohibit the use of the SVS for functions
that have not been found to be
acceptable.
Issued in Renton, Washington, on May 20,
2011.
Ali Bahrami,
Manager, Transport Airplane Directorate,
Aircraft Certification Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 25
[Docket No. NM451; Special Conditions No. 25-426-SC]
Special Conditions: Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11
Airplanes, Head-up Display (HUD) With Video Synthetic Vision System
(SVS)
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Final special conditions.
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SUMMARY: These special conditions are issued for Bombardier Model BD-
700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11 airplanes. These airplanes, as modified by
Bombardier Inc., will have a novel or unusual design feature associated
with a SVS that displays video imagery on
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the HUD. The applicable airworthiness regulations do not contain
adequate or appropriate safety standards for this design feature. 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.
DATES: Effective Date: June 30, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dale Dunford, FAA, ANM-111, Transport
Airplane Directorate, Aircraft Certification Service, 1601 Lind Avenue,
SW., Renton, Washington, 98057-3356; telephone (425) 227-2239 facsimile
(425) 227-1100.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On January 26, 2007, Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA), on
behalf of Bombardier Inc., located in Montreal, Canada, applied to the
New York Aircraft Certification Office (NYACO) for FAA approval of a
type-design change on the Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11
airplanes. Per Type Certificate Data Sheet (TCDS) T00003NY, those
aircraft models are known under the marketing designation of Global
Express and Global 5000, respectively. The change is to introduce the
Rockwell-Collins avionics suite to replace the existing Honeywell
Primus 2000EP avionics suite. The change includes the installation of a
SVS that displays video imagery.
Video display on the HUD constitutes new and novel technology for
which the FAA has no certification criteria. Title 14, Code of Federal
Regulations (14 CFR) 25.773 does not permit visual distortions and
reflections that could interfere with the pilot's normal duties and was
not written in anticipation of such technology. Other applications for
certification of such technology are anticipated in the near future and
magnify the need to establish FAA safety standards that can be applied
consistently for all such approvals. Special conditions are therefore
issued as prescribed under the provisions of Sec. 21.16.
Type Certification Basis
Under the provisions of 14 CFR 21.101, Bombardier Inc. must show
that the Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11 airplanes, as
changed, continue to meet the applicable provisions of the regulations
incorporated by reference in T00003NY or the applicable regulations in
effect on the date of application for the change. The regulations
incorporated by reference in the type certificate are commonly referred
to as the ``original type certification basis.'' The regulations
incorporated by reference in T00003NY are as follows:
Based on the application date, January 26, 2007, under the
provisions of Sec. 21.101, the applicable type-certification standards
for the modification to the Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-
1A11 airplanes are as follows:
Airworthiness & Environmental Standards for Components and Areas Not
Affected by the Change
The original certification basis for the Bombardier Model BD-700-
1A10 and BD-700-1A11 airplanes shown on TCDS T00003NY, Revision 13.
Airworthiness and Environmental Standards for Components and Areas
Affected by the Change
14 CFR part 25, effective February 1, 1965, including the latest
applicable requirements of Amendments 25-1 through 25-119.
If the Administrator finds that the applicable airworthiness
regulations (i.e., 14 CFR part 25) do not contain adequate or
appropriate safety standards for the Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and
BD-700-1A11 airplanes because of a novel or unusual design feature,
special conditions are prescribed under the provisions of 14 CFR 21.16.
Special conditions are initially applicable to the model for which
they are issued. Should the type certificate for that model be amended
later to include any other model that incorporates the same or similar
novel or unusual design feature, or should any other model already
included on the same type certificate be modified to incorporate the
same or similar novel or unusual design feature, the special conditions
would also apply to the other model under Sec. 21.101.
In addition to the applicable airworthiness regulations and special
conditions, the Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11 airplanes
must comply with the fuel-vent and exhaust-emission requirements of 14
CFR part 34 and the noise certification requirements of 14 CFR part 36.
The FAA issues special conditions, as defined in 14 CFR 11.19, in
accordance with Sec. 11.38, and they become part of the type-
certification basis under 14 CFR 21.101.
Novel or Unusual Design Features
The Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11 airplanes will
incorporate the following novel or unusual design features:
An SVS that displays video imagery on a HUD.
Discussion
For many years the FAA has approved, on transport category
airplanes, the use of HUD that display flight symbology, without a
significant visual obscuration of the outside view. When the FAA began
to evaluate the display of enhanced vision system (EVS) imagery on the
HUD, significant potential to obscure the outside view became apparent,
contrary to the requirements of 14 CFR 25.773. This rule does not
permit distortions and reflections in the pilot-compartment view that
can interfere with normal duties, and the rule was not written in
anticipation of such technology. The video image potentially interferes
with the pilot's ability to see the natural scene in the center of the
forward field of view. Therefore, the FAA issued special conditions for
such HUD/EVS installations to ensure that the level of safety required
by Sec. 25.773 would be met even when the image might partially
obscure the outside view. While many of the characteristics of EVS and
SVS video differ in some ways, they have one thing in common: The
potential for interference with the outside view through the airplane
windshield. The FAA issues special conditions for new and novel
technologies to achieve equivalent levels of safety.
Although the pilot readily may be able to see around and through
small, individual, stroke-written symbols on the HUD, the pilot may not
be able to see around or through the image that fills the display
without some interference of the outside view. Nevertheless, the SVS
may be capable of meeting the required level of safety when considering
the combined view of the image and the outside scene visible to the
pilot through the image. It is essential that the pilot can use this
combination of image and natural view of the outside scene as safely
and effectively as the pilot-compartment view currently available
without the SVS image.
Because Sec. 25.773 does not provide for any alternatives or
considerations for such a new and novel system, the FAA establishes
safety requirements that assure an equivalent level of safety and
effectiveness of the pilot-compartment view as intended by that rule.
The purpose of this special condition is to provide the unique pilot-
compartment-view requirements for the SVS installation.
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Discussion of Comments
Notice of Proposed Special Conditions no. 25-11-10-SC for the
Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11 airplanes was published in
the Federal Register on March 28, 2011 (76 FR 17062). No comments were
received, and the special conditions are adopted as proposed.
Applicability
As discussed above, these special conditions are applicable to the
Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11 airplanes. Should
Bombardier Inc. apply at a later date for a change to the type
certificate to include another model incorporating the same novel or
unusual design feature, the special conditions would apply to that
model as well.
Conclusion
This action affects only certain novel or unusual design features
on Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-700-1A11 airplanes. It is not a
rule of general applicability.
List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 25
Aircraft, Aviation safety, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
The authority citation for these special conditions is as follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701, 44702, 44704.
The Special Conditions
Accordingly, pursuant to the authority delegated to me by the
Administrator, the following special conditions are issued as part of
the type-certification basis for Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10 and BD-
700-1A11 airplanes.
1. During any phase of flight in which it is to be used, the SVS
imagery on the HUD must not degrade flight safety or interfere with the
effective use of outside visual references for required pilot tasks.
2. To avoid unacceptable interference with the safe and effective
use of the pilot-compartment view, the SVS must meet the following
requirements:
a. The SVS design must minimize unacceptable display
characteristics or artifacts (e.g., terrain shadowing against a dark
background) that obscure the desired image of the scene, impair the
pilot's ability to detect and identify visual references, mask flight
hazards, distract the pilot, or otherwise degrade task performance or
safety.
b. Control of SVS image display brightness must be sufficiently
effective in dynamically changing background (ambient) lighting
conditions to avoid pilot distraction, impairment of the pilot's
ability to detect and identify visual references, masking of flight
hazards, or to otherwise degrade task performance or safety. If
automatic control for image brightness is not provided, it must be
shown that a single, manual setting is satisfactory for the range of
lighting conditions encountered during a time-critical, high-workload
phase of flight (e.g., low-visibility instrument approach).
c. A readily accessible control must be provided that permits the
pilot to immediately deactivate and reactivate display of the SVS image
on demand, without having to remove hands from the flight controls and
throttles.
d. The SVS image on the HUD must not impair the pilot's use of
guidance information, or degrade the presentation and pilot awareness
of essential flight information displayed on the HUD, such as alerts,
airspeed, attitude, altitude and direction, approach guidance,
windshear guidance, TCAS resolution advisories, or unusual-attitude
recovery cues.
e. The SVS image and the HUD symbols, which are spatially
referenced to the pitch scale, outside view, and image, must be scaled
and aligned (i.e., conformal) to the external scene. In addition, the
SVS image and the HUD symbols--when considered singly or in
combination--must not be misleading, cause pilot confusion, or increase
workload. Airplane attitudes or cross-wind conditions may cause certain
symbols (e.g., the zero-pitch line or flight-path vector) to reach
field-of-view limits, such that they cannot be positioned conformally
with the image and external scene. In such cases, these symbols may be
displayed but with an altered appearance that makes the pilot aware
that they are no longer displayed conformally (for example,
``ghosting''). The combined use of symbology and runway image may not
be used for path monitoring when path symbology is no longer conformal.
f. A HUD system used to display SVS images must, if previously
certified, continue to meet all of the requirements of the original
approval.
3. The safety and performance of the pilot tasks associated with
the use of the pilot-compartment view must be not be degraded by the
display of the SVS image. These tasks include the following:
a. Detection, accurate identification and maneuvering, as
necessary, to avoid traffic, terrain, obstacles, and other flight
hazards.
b. Accurate identification and utilization of visual references
required for every task relevant to the phase of flight.
4. Appropriate limitations must be stated in the Operating
Limitations section of the Airplane Flight Manual to prohibit the use
of the SVS for functions that have not been found to be acceptable.
Issued in Renton, Washington, on May 20, 2011.
Ali Bahrami,
Manager, Transport Airplane Directorate, Aircraft Certification
Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-13341 Filed 5-27-11; 8:45 am]
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