Aerospace Standards Newsletter - December 2014 - 5

SHORT COURSES HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH A-6 COMMITTEE FALL MEETING
Three short courses - covering aerospace hydraulic
components, power electronics, and aircraft hydraulic pumps
- were held in conjunction with the SAE A-6 Aerospace
Actuation, Control, and Fluid Power Systems Committee
meeting, October 20-23, in Santa Barbara, California.
A-6 Chairman Jon Jeffery came up with the idea to offer the
courses, with the goals of attracting continued participation in
the meetings and increasing committee membership.
"I noticed when I went to other professional societies that
courses were being offered in conjunction with the conference,"
said Jeffery, Director, Innovation and Marketing, Parker Hannifin
Corporation, Parker Aerospace. "As a newcomer to these other
societies, I could learn very quickly about the new industry.
I thought this sort of addition to A-6 meetings would be just
what we needed to help attract newcomers. And we had
the subject matter experts within our committee that could
produce the material."

The short courses offered during the A-6 meeting were:
* "Aerospace Hydraulic Components," which provided an
overview of the hydraulic components used on aircraft. The
instructor was Jeffrey C. Dickey, Executive Vice President -
Hydraulics for The Lee Company.
* "Power Electronics for Mechanical Engineers," covering
the context, principles, design drivers, and main Power
Electronics components of various flight applications,
including those for harsh environments. The course was
presented by Michel Todeschi, Head of Electromechanical
Actuation and THSA Group, Airbus.
* "Aircraft Hydraulic Pumps - Application, Design and
Integration" which offered an overview of aircraft hydraulic
pumps, focusing on their application in hydraulic systems,
design and performance characteristics, and integration issues.
Peter A. Stricker, the Vice Chairman of the Power Sources
Panel of the A-6 committee, was the instructor for this course.

FLIGHT DECK LIGHTING STANDARD SIGNIFICANTLY REVISED
"SAE ARP4103: Flight Deck Lighting for Commercial
Transport Aircraft," has recently been revised and released
by the SAE A-20 Aircraft Lighting Committee. This new
extensive revision reaffirms that ARP4103 is pertinent to the
aviation industry, changes the content to keep up with the
state of the art, and adds clarification where needed.
ARP4103 contains recommended flight deck lighting
design and performance criteria to ensure prompt and
accurate readability and visibility, color identification, and
discrimination of needed information under all expected
ambient lighting and electrical power conditions.
The revision has been in the works for approximately seven
years by the A-20A Crew Station Lighting Committee,
said Steven Ellersick of the A-20 committee. In 2008, the
committee identified numerous SAE documents dealing with
crew station lighting that were outdated and did not apply to
modern flight decks. They decided to first work on ARP4103
because it was the most recent document and seemed to
provide the best guidance, Ellersick said. The committee has

had contributions from over 50 lighting and display optics
experts throughout the world.
ARP4013, which defines the recommended design and
performance requirements for component and system level
lighting, has been updated to include:
* Lighting design process
* Lighting certification
* General system level requirements and guidance for flight
deck lighting design and certification
* Component level requirements and guidance for flight deck
lighting design
* Lighting control
* Light source considerations
* Optical requirement compliance verification
* Non-optical qualification and environmental requirements for
flight deck lighting

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