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Rationale for Replacement of Pyrotechnic Signaling Devices in Survival Kits on Transport Category Aircraft Life Rafts and Slide-Rafts

2023-11-16

CURRENT

AIR5690A

This SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) identifies the risks and dangers associated with the carriage and use of pyrotechnic signaling devices in transport category aircraft life rafts and slide/rafts, and provides a rationale for allowing the use of alternative non-pyrotechnic devices authorized by FAA/TSO-C168. These devices offer an equivalent level of safety while eliminating flight safety risks, enhancing survivability of aircraft ditching survivors, reducing costs, eliminating dangerous goods transportation and handling issues, and reducing environmental impact of dangerous goods disposal.

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Flammability Test Method for Aircraft Comfort Blankets

2022-04-29

CURRENT

ARP5627A

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) applies to blankets used for passenger comfort within transport category aircraft cabins. When the term “blanket” is used in this document it refers to all blankets that are provided by the aircraft operator for passenger warmth.

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Hand-Held Cabin Fire Extinguishers Transport Aircraft

2021-09-29

CURRENT

ARP4712A

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) establishes general criteria for the installation (e.g., type, location, accessibility, stowage) and crew member training needed for hand-held fire extinguishers.

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Aircraft Crash Axes

2021-04-23

CURRENT

ARP5403A

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) recommends general criteria for availability, location, accessibility, stowage, use, and crew member training needed for aircraft crash axes.

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Design and Performance Criteria Aircraft Crash Axes

2021-04-23

CURRENT

AS5402A

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) provides design criteria and performance tests for crash axes intended for use by aircraft crew members to assist in evacuation, extrication, fire fighting, or other emergency activities.

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Aviation Visual Distress Signals (AVDS)

2020-08-25

CURRENT

AS5134C

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) provides minimum performance and design standards for a handheld, high-intensity, flashing Aviation Visual Distress Signal (AVDS) based on light-emitting-diode (LED) technology operating simultaneously in visible (white) and near infrared (NIR) spectra designed to facilitate location and rescue of aviation accident/ditching survivors in open sea conditions.

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Survivor Locator Lights

2020-08-25

CURRENT

AS4492A

This document covers survivor locator lights as follows: a Steady type lights (Type I) b Flashing-type lights (Type II)

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Knife, Hunting, Sheathed, Survival, Pilot’s

2020-05-18

CURRENT

AS8662A

This specification covers the requirements for one type of a pilot’s survival, sheathed, hunting knife with a 5-inch blade and sharpening stone.

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Design and Performance Criteria Transport Aircraft Portable Megaphones

2019-08-22

CURRENT

AS4950B

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) provides design criteria and performance tests for portable, handheld, battery-powered, electronic megaphones used by aircraft crew members to provide information and guidance in the event of an aircraft emergency or other non-routine situation.

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Emergency Portability of Slide/Rafts

2019-03-18

CURRENT

ARP5252A

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) recommends design features for facilitating relocation of portable slide/rafts for deployment at an alternate exit under ditching conditions.

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Individual Inflatable Life Preservers

2019-03-18

CURRENT

ARP1354B

This Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) provides criteria for operational characteristics to be considered in the design of individual, inflatable life preservers intended for air transport safety.

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Survival Kit - Life Rafts and Slide/Rafts

2019-03-05

CURRENT

ARP1282B

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) applies to survival kits to be carried with life rafts or slide/rafts on transport category airplanes flying extended over-water routes and equipped with approved satellite alerting devices (e.g., 406 MHz Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT)), available for deployment after an emergency landing.

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Aviation Visual Distress Signals (AVDS)

2018-06-12

HISTORICAL

AS5134B

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) provides minimum performance and design standards for a handheld, high-intensity, flashing Aviation Visual Distress Signal (AVDS) based on light-emitting-diode (LED) technology operating simultaneously in visible (white) and near infrared (NIR) spectra designed to facilitate location and rescue of aviation accident/ditching survivors in open sea conditions.

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Life Rafts

2017-05-02

CURRENT

AS1356

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) establishes Minimum Performance Standards (MPS) for life rafts carried on board aircraft. This document is not intended to specify particular design methods, mechanisms, or equipment to be used to accomplish the objectives established herein.

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Flammability Test Method for Aircraft Comfort Blankets

2016-10-22

HISTORICAL

ARP5627

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) applies to blankets used for passenger comfort within transport category aircraft cabins. When the term “blanket” is used in this document it refers to all blankets that are provided by the aircraft operator for passenger warmth.

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Individual Inflatable Life Preserver

2016-02-24

CURRENT

AS1354

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) provides the minimum design and performance requirements for individual, inflatable life preservers, divided into six categories: “Adult,” “Adult-Child,” “Child,” “Infant-Small Child,” “Adult-Child-Infant-Small Child,” and “Demonstration.”

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Aircraft Crash Axes

2013-09-19

CURRENT

AIR5401A

This SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) provides information demonstrating the need for establishing design and performance standards for aircraft crash axes.

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Aircraft Crash Axes

2007-07-09

HISTORICAL

AIR5401

This SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) provides information demonstrating the need for establishing design and performance standards for aircraft crash axes.

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Emergency Portability of Slide/Rafts

2007-01-18

HISTORICAL

ARP5252

This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) recommends design features for facilitating relocation of portable slide/rafts for deployment at an alternate exit under ditching conditions.

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Considerations for the Carriage and Use of Visual Distress Signals in Airline Overwater Survival Kits

2006-08-23

HISTORICAL

AIR5690

This SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) is intended to promote awareness of the dangers associated with the carriage and use of pyrotechnic signaling devices in multi-place life rafts and slide/rafts on transport category aircraft. Also included is background information and a rationale for replacing these devices with alternative signaling devices, which offer effective signaling and reduced flammability, yielding an “equivalent level of safety,” as required by the FAA for replacement of the required pyrotechnic signaling device.