SAE AS5452A

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) will specify what type night vision goggles are required, minimum requirements for compatible crew station lighting, aircraft exterior lighting such as anticollision lights and position/navigation lights that are “NVG compatible.” Also, this document is intended to set standards for NVG utilization for aircraft so that special use aircraft such as the Coast Guard, Border Patrol, Air Rescue, Police Department, Medivacs, etc., will be better equipped to chase drug smugglers and catch illegal immigrants, rescue people in distress, reduce high-speed chases through city streets by police, etc. Test programs and pilot operator programs are required. For those people designing or modifying civil aircraft to be NVG compatible, the documents listed in 2.1.3 are essential. The FAA, by written request to SAE, solicited assistance on the subject of NVG Compatible Lighting for Civil Aircraft. The rationale for this Standard is to furnish the required information necessary for FAA approval to those interested in producing NVG compatible lighting for civil aircraft. There are many documents published and available, each containing a portion of the information required to produce and utilize air vehicles with NVG compatible lighting in accordance with FAA requirements. These documents are not readily known or available to the uninitiated. This Standard sets the requirements by its contents and the documents it references.