Aircraft Certification Standards and Airworthiness Compliance

Means of Compliance (MoC)

  • MoC 0, Statement: Direct Answer. Applicant declaration, normally supported with a short rationale, which shows compliance with the requirement.
  • MoC 1, Description: Descriptive document or reference to a document including the drawings that show compliance with the requirement.
  • MoC 2, Analysis: Documents with calculations and analysis that show compliance with the requirements.
  • MoC 3, Safety Assessment: Specific analysis prepared to show compliance with Safety Requirements (
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Aviation Security: Threats and Acts of Unlawful Interference

Understanding “Unlawful Interference”

“Unlawful Interference” encompasses a wide spectrum of acts, ranging from moderately disruptive behavior to mass terrorist attacks. Examples include:

  • Vandalism of airport facilities
  • Air rage
  • Threatening flight attendants
  • Drug smuggling
  • Cargo theft
  • Bomb threats
  • Sabotage of aircraft/NAVAIDS
  • “Simple” hijackings
  • Fatal hijackings
  • Aircraft bombing
  • 9/11 mass attacks

ICAO Annex 17: Defining “Unlawful Interference” with Civil Aviation

ICAO Annex 17 defines “Unlawful Interference”

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Architectural Styles and Movements: From Antiquity to Modernity

Key Quotes on Architecture

  • Le Corbusier: “The masterly, correct, and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light.”
  • Mies van der Rohe: “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated to space.”
  • Pablo Campos: “Architecture is the composition of spaces in space.”
  • Art: “The intellectualization of sensations through expression.”

Public Library Stockholm and Architectural Precedents

Public Library Stockholm (1920-27) by Erik Gunnar Asplund (1895-1940) introduces Modern Architecture in Scandinavia.

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Mastering V-Ray Render Options in SketchUp

V-Ray for SketchUp: Mastering Render Options

Opening V-Ray for SketchUp – Render Options

The V-Ray for SketchUp Options controls all rendering parameters. You can open these Render Options from the Plugins menu above or click directly on the V-Ray Options icon.

V-Ray for SketchUp Render Options

Saving and Loading Option Settings

There are many Options settings in V-Ray for SketchUp. Users can save the current settings or save different files according to different scenes, different render quality settings, or different render engines.

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Cybersecurity Threats: Cyberwarfare, Espionage, and Crime

Cyberweapons

  • Cyberweapons are non-kinetic weapons that are still able to inflict damage.
    • Example: The North Korean attack on Sony because of *The Interview*.
      • Russian cyberwarriors shut down Georgian government websites before their kinetic attack when they moved into South Ossetia and began a brief war with Georgia.
        • They also targeted communications and financial systems.
  • Nonlethal forms of attack include:
    • Shutting down government websites, disabling servers, making private emails public, and disrupting
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Aviation Safety: ATC, Airports, and Operational Hazards

Topic 9 “Medium” Factors: ATC and Airports

The Aircraft Operating Environment

  • Aircraft have their own “machine factors” relating to safety, but aircraft also operate in two key manmade environments:
    • Airspace under air traffic control (ATC)
    • Airports
  • ATC and airports each present a set of hazards and safety aids for flight.

ATC and Navaid Safety Enhancements

  • Most ATC/Navaid enhancements are “broad-in-purpose:”
    • Flight efficiency
    • Capacity enhancement
    • Cost reduction
    • Safety
  • “Legacy” navaids and airspace
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