Airworthiness Certification of Light Ejection Escape Equipment

The effective regulations or standards haven’t provided enough safety requirements for unusual design features of light ejection escape equipment installed on acrobatic aircraft. In this article, this certification problem was discussed. First the design features of normal ejection escape equipment are discussed, and then applicability of effective regulations or standards which could be used to certificate this equipment is studied. According to all these work, the reasonable certification method is put forward at last. And at the same time, the important issues that should be focused on during certification process are listed.