As specified by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Order 8110.4C, “Type Certification Process” (most recently revised as “Change 6”, MAR2017), the U.S. DOT Volpe Center Acoustics Facility (Volpe), in support of the FAA Office of Environment and Energy (AEE), performs audits of aircraft noise certification applicants’ software and methodologies to ensure conformance with the requirements and specifications of Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) Title 14 part 36 (Part 36).

These audits are executed as “validations” of applicants’ software, instrumentation and procedures.

• Volpe Software Validation Data Submittal Memorandum - V324-FB48B3-LR2 18AUG2017

Please visit the following pages for additional information:

• Primary Software and Methodology Validation
• Acoustic Instrumentation System Validation
• Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPS) Validation
• Unconventional Aircraft (UA) Noise Research
• Resources
• External Links