Description / Abstract:
SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT:
This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) is broken into
various categories for convenience and case of identification.
It is the purpose of this document to provide certain criteria
for the design and selection of stairways, for the boarding of
passengers onto an aircraft. The criteria presented are limited to
those factors which affect the safety of the passengers and are
coordinated, where applicable, with the practices of the
architectural profession, with respect to the design of
stairways.
The recommended practices are applicable to both mobile
variable-elevation type stairways and to fixed-elevation stairways
of the type built into an aircraft fuselage.