Originally Posted by
threemiles
This is nonsense. Certification is a desktop exercise. You go through the aircraft systems schematics and make a risk analysis about what if then. It is not about trying to let something emerge.
You're not making sense. No, of course it isn't about that. By definition you can't "try to let something emerge" if you don't know it exists.
But it happens. If you're suggesting, as you seem to be, that certification doesn't involve flight testing, that's clearly nonsense.
Flight Test Guide for Certification of Transport Category Airplanes - FAA