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Performance Standards for Side-Facing Seats in Civil Rotorcraft, Transport Aircraft, and General Aviation Aircraft
- Aerospace Standard
- AS8049/1A
- Revised
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Scope
This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) defines Minimum Performance Standards (MPS), qualification requirements, and minimum documentation requirements for side-facing seats in civil rotorcraft, transport aircraft, and general aviation aircraft. The goal is to achieve comfort, durability, and occupant protection under normal operational loads and to define test and evaluation criteria to demonstrate occupant protection when a side-facing seat/occupant/restraint system is subjected to statically applied ultimate loads and to dynamic test conditions set forth in Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 23, 25, 27, or 29.
While this document addresses system performance, responsibility for the seating system is divided between the seat supplier and the installation applicant. The seat supplier’s responsibility consists of meeting all the seat system performance requirements and obtaining and supplying to the installation applicant all the data prescribed by this document. The installation applicant has the final responsibility in assuring that all requirements for safe seat installation have been met.
Rationale
This SAE Aircraft Standard (AS) describes dynamic test procedures and pass/fail criteria for side-facing seats. These criteria are considered the Minimum Performance Standard for side facing seats, and streamline the certification effort for the installation of these seats onto the aircraft. Publication of FAA Policy memo PS-ANM-25-03-R1 (Technical Criteria for Approving Side-Facing Seats, dated November 5, 2012) defines specific injury criteria levels for side facing seats. Meeting this injury criteria provides side facing seats, both single and multiple place, with an equivalent level of safety to forward and rear facing seats.
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Data Sets - Support Documents
Title | Description | Download |
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Table 1 | Seat type categories | |
Unnamed Dataset 2 | ||
Unnamed Dataset 3 |
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
Number | Title |
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1999-01-1609 | A Lumbar Spine Modification to the Hybrid III ATD For Aircraft Seat Tests |
ARP5482 | Photometric Data Acquisition Procedures for Impact Test |
ARP5526 | Aircraft Seat Design Guidance and Clarifications |
AS8043 | TORSO RESTRAINT SYSTEMS |
J1733_201811 | Sign Convention for Vehicle Crash Testing |
J211-2 | This document is not part of the subscrption. |
J211/1_201403 | Instrumentation for Impact Test - Part 1 - Electronic Instrumentation |
J211/2_201406 | Instrumentation for Impact Test—Part 2: Photographic Instrumentation |
J2111_201507 | Headlamp Cleaners |
J826_201511 | Devices for Use in Defining and Measuring Vehicle Seating Accommodation |
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