§44744 Flight crew alerting

Summary

Starting on December 27, 2022, the FAA Administrator cannot approve a new type certificate for a transport airplane unless that airplane has a flight crew alerting system that shows and tells the difference between warnings, cautions, and advisories, and that helps the pilots decide what to fix first and how to handle system failures. That rule does not apply to type certificate applications sent in before December 27, 2020. One year after the FAA approves a type certificate for the Boeing 737-10, the FAA cannot give an original airworthiness certificate to any Boeing 737 MAX unless the airplane’s type design includes approved safety enhancements. Three years after that 737-10 type certificate, no one may operate a 737 MAX unless its type design has those approved enhancements and the airplane was built or changed to match that design. “Boeing 737 MAX aircraft” means Model 737-7, -8, -8200, -9, or -10 (and similar variants). A “safety enhancement” means an approved change to the flight crew alerting system for the 737-10, such as a synthetic enhanced angle-of-attack system and a way to shut off stall-warning and overspeed alerts, or equivalent approved changes.