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STANDARDS &
COMMITTEES
If you Google " safest mode of
transportation, " the first result
says: " Airplane Safety Airplanes! "
Of course, if you're in the
aerospace industry, this should
not come as a surprise. Today, air
travel is safe due to checks and
balances, training, technology,
regulations-and the tireless
efforts of SAE's S-18 Aircraft and
Systems Development and
Safety Assessment committee.
Formed in 1992, the SAE S-18
committee set forth with a
singular, and essential, goal: to
develop vital safety guidelines
and practices for the aerospace
industry. Out of that goal two
SAE Aerospace Recommend
Practices (ARPs) were born:
ARP4754, Guidelines for
Development of Civil Aircraft and
Systems, and ARP4761,
Guidelines for Conducting the
Safety Assessment Process on
Civil Aircraft, Systems, and
Equipment.
Originally published in 1996,
these two industry-critical ARPs
are lauded as the twin pillars of
aircraft safety. However, in the 27
years since they were first
published, only ARP4754 was
revised-once, in 2010. But don't
be fooled: these are living
documents, and this span
UPDATE
Relationships between various development documents (from ARP4754B).
between revisions is not due to neglect on the
committee's part. As the committee diligently worked
on revising these documents to handle the evergreater
complexity of new, integrated aircraft systems,
they knew ARP4754 and ARP4761 would stand the
test of time. These ARPs were originally developed
with long-term, built-in flexibility in mind.
" A good standard is one you don't have to revise a
lot because it is flexible, it is open, and you can
understand the intent of it and use that intent to apply
to almost anything, " said Robert " Bob " Voros, Director
of Product Safety Assurance at Merlin Lab and former
chair of the SAE S-18 committee. " These standards are
intertwined with a lot of guidance and policy
throughout the industry, which is how they have
stayed steadfast. This flexibility is based on the
general functionality of an aircraft. "
Thanks to the extensive efforts of the SAE S-18
committee, the work of decades has paid off. By the
end of this year, ARP4754B and ARP4761A will be
published simultaneously with their EUROCAE
December 2023
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