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I think EASA doesn't trust the FAA here because the FAA had less involvement in the original certification than some are comfortable with. So rather that asking
by mikejb 7y ago
I think EASA doesn't trust the FAA here because the FAA had less involvement in the original certification than some are comfortable with. So rather that asking the FAA to certify the entire plane and maybe risk a similar procedure (Boeing self-certifies most of it), they'll do it themselves.
What I'm curious is whether EASA has similar certification shortcu... optimizations for Airbus.
- anoncake 7y agoI hope they don't. But Boeing not being trustworthy does not mean that Airbus isn't.
- rootusrootus 7y agoJust over a year ago Airbus paid a fine to Germany for bribery. So it appears they have their own corruption problems.
- actuator 7y agoWasn't that for sales though?
- rootusrootus 7y agoI'm not sure I'm willing to narrow the goalposts that much just so I can absolve Airbus from misbehaving. And that's just the most recent example easy to find with a quick Google search.
- anoncake 7y agoOf course Airbus misbehaved and is probably still misbehaving in some manner. The question is whether they are misbehaving when it comes to safety.
- nutjob2 7y agoYes, those were bribes that Airbus discovered in their sales department and reported to the authorities. The issue seemed to revolve around paying middlemen for introductions in certain countries.
- village-idiot 7y agoIt’s worse than that, the FAA has begun to have an attitude that keeping Boeing’s profits up is important, as managers within the FAA constantly pushed to delegate certification authority to Boeing itself.
- hef19898 7y agoI do know that certain certification tasks actually cam be done by the designing company if that company is properly audited and certified by EASA. Just how broad this is and what the differences are between FAA and EASA procedures, details are the very important factor here, I don't know. I was just involved in some EASA-derived certification questions for military aircraft for a short time to provide some logistics perspective. So I am by no means an expert on that.