§450.115. Flight safety analysis methods.
14 C.F.R. § 450.115
Scope of the analysis. An operator's flight safety analysis method must account for all reasonably foreseeable events and failures of safety-critical systems during nominal and non-nominal launch or reentry that could jeopardize public safety.
Level of fidelity of the analysis. An operator's flight safety analysis method must have a level of fidelity sufficient to—
Demonstrate that any risk to the public satisfies the safety criteria of § 450.101, including the use of mitigations, accounting for all known sources of uncertainty, using a means of compliance accepted by the Administrator; and
Identify the dominant source of each type of public risk with a criterion in § 450.101(a) or (b) in terms of phase of flight, source of hazard (such as toxic exposure, inert, or explosive debris), and failure mode.
Application requirements. An applicant must submit a description of the flight safety analysis methodology, including identification of:
The scientific principles and statistical methods used;
All assumptions and their justifications;
The rationale for the level of fidelity;
The evidence for validation and verification required by § 450.101(g);
The extent to which the benchmark conditions are comparable to the foreseeable conditions of the intended operations; and
The extent to which risk mitigations were accounted for in the analyses.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
Authority
Authority: 51 U.S.C. 50901-50923.
Source
Source: Docket No. FAA-2019-0229, Amdt. 450-2, 85 FR 79719, Dec. 10, 202085 FR 79739, Dec. 10, 2020, unless otherwise noted.