Commercial Aircraft Safety Assessment and 1309 Design Analysis

Instructor(s)

Description

Covers requirements of FARs 23.1309, 25.1309, 27.1309 and 29.1309 from fundamental analysis techniques to system integration; includes construction of failure mode and effects analysis, criticality analysis and fault trees. Includes detailed review of SAE ARP 4754 and 4761. Principles apply to all critical and essential aircraft systems.

Target Audience

Designed for Parts 23, 25, 27 and 29 system certification engineers, equipment and system designers, FAA Designated Engineering Representatives (DERs), aircraft certification personnel, military personnel procuring civil equipment and system safety practitioners new to commercial aviation.

Fee Includes

Includes instruction, a course notebook, SAE ARP 4754 Certification Considerations for Highly-Integrated or Complex Aircraft Systems, SAE ARP 4761—Guidelines and Methods for Conducting the Safety Assessment Process on Civil Airborne Systems and Equipment, refreshments, and five lunches. The course notes are for participants only and are not for sale.

Fees: See fee information for individual classes in the registration column on the right side of this page.

Class Time

Class time: 35 hours • 3.5 CEUs

Course Outline

Day One

System Safety basics including importance of structured systematic evaluations, system safety and reliability concepts and philosophies, understanding 1309 regulations and accident statistics/data
Overview of the SAE ARP 4761 Safety Assessment process for commercial aviation, aircraft and system Functional Hazard Assessments, and allocating safety requirements
Risk assessment exercise

Day Two

FHA class exercise
System architecture concepts and design assurance levels including SAE ARP 4754 Certification Considerations for Highly-Integrated or Complex Aircraft Systems. RTCA DO-254 Certification Considerations for Airborne Complex Electronic Hardware, and RTCA DO-178 Software Considerations in Airborne Systems.
Preliminary System Safety Assessments (PSSA)
PSSA and requirement allocation class exercise

Day Three

Failure rate prediction techniques and class exercise
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)/Failure Mode Effect Summary (FMES)
Reliability block diagrams and dependency diagrams
Class FMEA exercise

Day Four

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) concepts, modeling techniques and examples, qualitative evaluation (cutsets), quantitative evaluation, importance measures and software tools
Common Cause Analysis: Particular Risk, Zonal, and Common Mode
FTA and common mode class exercise

Day Five

System Safety Assessment (SSA)
MMEL analysis, In-Service Risk Assessment, Certification Maintenance Requirements
Tailoring methods to aircraft modifications
Examples of safety assessment tailoring for STC projects
Safety requirements for system and equipment specifications
EWIS Safety Analysis (14 CFR 25.1709)

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Registration Information

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Aerospace Short Courses
The University of Kansas
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