zalt and jimL,
The JAA team is coming to statford and West Palm Beach next week to perform the next stage of the JAA certification. We intend to fly the program they request (which should not be too extensive) and then complete the HIRF (High Intensity Radiation Field) tests at Pax River in late summer. This data will be presented to the JAA, and we hope to have certification shortly thereafter.
A complication is the EASA organization start-up, which might create some complexity in the legalisms of JAA certification, but the authorities seem quite dedicated to continuing the process in an orderly manner.
On other fronts, we have begun the formal IFR data gathering, and have also begun the de ice program with a tour in the Eglin AFB climatic hangar running right now. We will toss ice at the rotor to help substantiate the patterns on the blades, which will help correlate the airborne data we get next fall. We have every intention of certifying the deice in one season, which requires a flawless deice system, a really bad icing season, and some luck.