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Performance Standards for Oblique Facing Passenger Seats in Transport Aircraft
- Aerospace Standard
- AS6316
- Reaffirmed
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Scope
This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) documents a common understanding of terms, compliance issues, and occupant injury criteria to facilitate the design and certification of oblique facing passenger seat installations specific to Part 25 aircraft.
The applicability of the criteria listed in this current release is limited to seats with an occupant facing direction greater than 18° and no greater than 45° relative to the aircraft longitudinal axis. Seats installed at angles greater than 30° relative to the aircraft longitudinal axis must have an energy absorbing rest or shoulder harness and must satisfy the criteria listed in Table 2. Later revisions are intended to provide criteria for other facing directions.
Performance criteria for forward and aft facing seats are provided in AS8049 and for side facing seats in AS8049/1.
This document contains the same content as superseded ARP6316 with additional information included to align this Aerospace Standard with AS8049/1 regarding the use of the femur angular rotation sensor.
Although the issues and criteria presented in this document are common with oblique facing seats installed in Part 23 aircraft and Parts 27 and 29 rotorcraft, these standards have not been validated for these types of aircraft.
Rationale
The use of oblique facing passenger seats has become prevalent for business and first class seating arrangements on many airlines. Industry standard test requirements and occupant injury criteria that suppliment the requirements of AS8049 are required for these types of seats. This standard supersedes ARP6316.
AS6316 has been reaffirmed to comply with the SAE Five-Year Review policy.
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Data Sets - Support Documents
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| Table 2 | Occupant injury criteria |
Issuing Committee
The Aerospace Council of SAE established the Aircraft Seat Committee (SEAT) in 1997 to address technical issues related to the design and/or performance of aircraft seating systems. The seating systems include crew, flight attendants, and passenger seats installed in Civil Rotorcraft, Transport Aircraft, and General Aviation Aircraft.
A list of the technical reports developed by the SEAT Committee can be obtained by searching on 'aircraft seat' and selecting 'standards', from the SAE Home Page. SEAT StandardsReference
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