Econometrics of the Functional Connection of the Price and Reliability of Hybrid Aircraft Technology

In addition to the technical complexity of implementation and operation, an important aspect when introducing innovative systems to aircraft is also the aspect of financial complexity. The financial complexity creates the evaluation parameter when comparing the price of the introduced technology, including production and operating costs and the potential for the use and expansion of innovative systems in aviation technology and practice. When focusing on the reliability of a hybrid aircraft, the financial burden must be incurred following the required technical reliability, which is conditioned by the legislative conditions determining aspects of airworthiness. For this reason, any alternative solution to the conventional system, i.e., any technological progress, is limited mainly by the specific required values, allowing the hybrid aircraft to be put into service. Due to the need for a standardized evaluation tool for hybrid aircraft, it is necessary that the team of designers and production technicians, possibly also the end user, be connected and confronted with the entire course of the evaluation process of the reliability of the operation of the aircraft being evaluated. The presented chapter offers a method of forecasting the price and reliability of an established alternative (hybrid) propulsion of aeronautical technology with an emphasis on evaluating its effectiveness of implementation on aeronautical technology, in this case, on an aeroplane.