Requirements Management Applied in Airworthiness Certification in the Civil Aircraft

Abstract

The civil aircraft certification is the process, which indicates whether aircraft design complies with airworthiness regulations, or not. In recent years, requirements management has been gradually implemented in civil aircraft design, showing a method, which can implement a series of stakeholder, needs or expectation including airworthiness into specific products through requirements definition, validation and verification. Requirements are hierarchical and structured, however, the lack of technical hierarchy of regulations as provisions results in a poor correlation between regulations and requirements. This paper focuses on the research about the application of requirement based engineering method in the development of civil aircraft, and exploring how to implement the regulations in the whole life cycle of the aircraft development to effectively ensure that the regulations are fully implemented into the product requirements, and fully interacted with the system development process. To a certain extent, avoid the disconnection between the airworthiness regulations and the development process, and reduce the risk that the development of civil aircraft does not meet the airworthiness regulations.