Originally Posted by
FH1100 Pilot
The real issue is going to be what FAR the aircraft are certified under. And that's going to be 21.17b. Which says... Heh-heh-heh, "equivalent level of safety" with other certified aircraft.
Exactly. But since you appear completely lost on the issue, here are the FAA Part 21.17(b) Special Class Airworthiness Criteria final rules for the Joby and Archer certification process along with additional FAA eVTOL certification guidance document. I also included a link to the EASA eVTOL certification guidance for comparison. So as soon as the FAA pilots complete the TIA flights, the certification testing process will be complete. As the rotor turns....
Joby Part 21.17 Special Class Airworthiness Criteria
Archer Part 21.17 Special Class Airworthiness Criteria
FAA Certification Guidance AC 21.17-4
EASA Certification Guidance SC-VTOL
Originally Posted by
SansAnhedral
conventional tiltrotor (a configuration which wins every single eVTOL trade on technical merits,
Except you forgot one critical technical merit they do not win at, noise signature. Ironically, it was those excessive noise signatures that drove NASA to develop the technology to make eVTOLs possible to fulfill a mission helicopters/tiltrotors could not.