Suggestions on the Revision of the Light Amphibious Aircraft Section of Airworthiness Regulations in China

Abstract

Due to the outstanding take-off and landing advantages and multiple application fields, amphibious aircraft has played an irreplaceable role in the future aviation industry. To catch up with and surpass advanced world levels of development of amphibious aircraft, the relevant airworthiness certification regulations need to be improved. Based on the development of amphibious aircraft at home and abroad, the future applications of amphibious aircraft is discussed. From the perspective of flight performance and characteristics, structure and load as well as avionics system, the similarities and differences of several existing airworthiness certification regulations are summarized, and the insufficient is analyzed. Finally, supplementary suggestions on existing airworthiness regulations in China including items in the field of take-off characteristics, structure safety, cockpit integration system, water tightness and anti-corrosion are proposed to match with the practical structure characteristics and pattern of the light amphibious aircraft.

Keywords

• general aviation
• light amphibious aircraft
• airworthiness certification regulation