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Abstract
Recently, technology advances have made it practical to build a new class of electrical VTOL (eVTOL) aircraft. Over a dozen companies, with as many different design approaches, are passionately working to make eVTOLs a reality. The establishment of Uber Elevate has helped spur this development by providing the launch customer and a proposing the necessary operational infrastructure for its implementation. However, to understand the path to improving safety and certification for urban air transportation, we need to understand the root causes of historical crashes. Thus, a Functional Safety Management (FSM) approach much be implemented. Also, before eVTOL air taxis can operate in any country, they will need to comply with regulations from aviation authorities--namely the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) who regulate 50% and 30% of the world's aviation activity, respectively-- charged with assuring aviation safety. eVTOL aircraft are new from a certification standpoint, and progress with certification of new aircraft concepts has historically been very slow, though the process is changing in a way that could accelerate things significantly. The planned approach is to start with FAR - Part 23 standards along with new ASTM F44 consensus standards. This approach offers the potential to radically accelerate the development of new standards (which is required for the certification of new eVTOLs) because the community takes responsibility for developing the certification basis and then presents it for adoption by the regulator. To help initiate this planned approach, Georgia Tech, in collaboration with Coventry University, is conducting a Safety Assessment and Certification (SAC) Study as part of the Georgia Tech Course, AE6362: Safety By Design and Flight Certification. This paper will review the overall proposed FSM approach and provide some emerging results from the SAC Study.

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