Training for Commercial Spaceflight

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Training for Commercial Spaceflight
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OCP

• Building training center
• Classroom
• Simulation
• Actual flight time

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Training Problems

• Ill defined
• No standards
• Does not fit other models
• Wrong group tasked

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Why Worry?

• Safety
• Crew is part of safety system
• Obvious is not always obvious
• Cost
• Accidents
• Insurance
• Reputation/Lost bookings

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TITLE 49, SUBTITLE IX, CHAPTER 701, 70102

• (2) crew means any employee of a licensee or
  transferee, or of a contractor or subcontractor
  of a licensee or transferee, who performs
  activities in the course of that employment
  directly relating to the launch, reentry, or
  other operation of or in a launch vehicle or
  reentry vehicle that carries human beings.
• (17) space flight participant means an
  individual, who is not crew, carried within a
  launch vehicle or reentry vehicle.

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Human Space Flight Requirements for Crew and
Space Flight Participants

• d. Payment for Pilot or Remote
• Under this final rule, the FAA will not allow a
  space flight participant to act as a pilot or
  remote operator of a launch or reentry vehicle.
• The FAA notes that someone paying to fly,
  whether as a passenger or at the controls, is a
  space flight participant rather than an
  employee.

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What does this mean?

• Operator must bear all costs of training
• Must hire individual before training
• Non-employees can not be adequately trained
• Full training can only happen after operator is
  licensed or permitted

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Human Space Flight Requirements for Crew and
Space Flight Participants (b)

• 460.7 Operator training of crew.
• (a) Implementation of training. An operator must
  train each member of its crew and define
  standards for successful completion in accordance
  with 460.5.
• (b) Training device fidelity. An operator must
• (1) Ensure that any crew-training device used to
  meet the training requirements realistically
  represents the vehicles configuration and
  mission, or
• (2) Inform the crew member being trained of the
  differences between the two.

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What does this Mean? (b)

• Operator is responsible for
• Simulators
• Training facility
• Curriculum
• all liability
• Cost
• Operator may not be the manufacture of the
  vehicle and be in need of training
• The operator may not be the best choice to make
  standards

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Guidelines?

• Regulations on training are very broad
• How much is enough?
• What is best practices?
• What works / doesnt work?
• How do we know we are safe?
• NASA or Aviation Industry?

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Standards

• CYA
• Helps defend against lawsuits
• Increases safety
• Able to pinpoint problems sooner
• Easier to interface with the FAA

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How?

• Industry group
• Members include those building/flying/training
  for spaceflight
• Set guidelines and suggest standards
• Non-profit / independent
• Interface with FAA

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