GOVERNMENT OF INDIA CIVIL AVIATION REQUIREMENTS
CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT SECTION 2 - AIRWORTHINESS
SERIES 'T' PART I
ISSUE I, DATED 10TH MAY, 1967
File No. 77/6/75-AI(1) EFFECTIVE : FORTHWITH
Subject : Flight Testing of (Series) Aircraft for the Issue of
Certificate of Airworthiness.
1. APPLICABILITY :
This part of Civil Airworthiness Requirements Series 'T'
specifies the conditions for the flight testing of series
aircraft for the issue of Certificate of Airworthiness.
2. DEFINITION :
Series Aircraft means an aircraft in respect of which an
application has been made for Certificate of Airworthiness
and the design of which is similar in every essential
respect to the design of an aircraft for which a Certificate
of Airworthiness has previously been issued.
Flight Tests for the purpose of this part means the flying
of an aircraft exclusively for the purpose of ensuring that
the Flight performance and characteristics of the aircraft
and functioning in flight of the aircraft parts do not
differ significantly in adverse sense from those of its
prototype.
3. CIRCUMSTANCES OF FLIGHT TEST :
The aircraft will be flight tested in accordance with the
flight test schedule approved by the Director General :
(i) to establish compliance with the airworthiness
requirements;
(ii) to provide information for inclusion in the
documents associated with the Certificate of
Airworthiness.
4. RELEASE OF AIRCRAFT FOR FLIGHT TEST :
Before the flight test is made, the Chief Inspector shall
release the aircraft for flight test after ensuring that all
requirements of Aircraft Rules and those laid down by the
Director General have been complied with.
5. FLIGHT CREW REQUIREMENTS :
The aircraft shall be flight tested by
applicant's/constructor's pilot under approved arrangements.
Sd/-
(M. L. Sodhi)
for Director General of Civil Aviation