The goals of the FAS are as follows:

• To share lessons learned in the use of the “software document suite” and to encourage good practices and promote the effective use of EUROCAE’s and RTCA's publications
• To develop FAS Topic Papers related to subjects covered by “software document suite” or other related aeronautical software industry topics.
• To identify and record any issues or errata showing the need for clarifications or the need for modifications to the “software document suite”.

If the FAS Executive Management Committee determines there is a general FAS agreement for proposed changes to the “software document suite” or the need for a new technology supplement, the FAS Executive Management Committee will bring this to the attention of RTCA/EUROCAE and FAA/EASA as appropriate with a request for discussion of the need for a new special committee/working group. It is expected that the efforts of the FAS would be used as input to the new special committee/working group thus the text development process would be more efficient as it would start with baseline material prepared by an expert user group.

Initial membership of FAS is limited to the Executive Management Committee and a Technical Leaders Group plus invited members who may be able to share their experience and expertise in the discussions related to and development of FTPs. The current membership is open to employees of companies that have membership to either RTCA or EUROCAE, with an associated role of either primary or observer.
Executive Management Committee – comprising the Executive Management Committee Leaders identified and agreed with EUROCAE and RTCA.
FAS Technical Leaders Group Members are those members identified by the Executive Management Committee to assist in leading Technical Groups (TGs) that will work on specific Information Papers as agreed by the FAS Executive Management Committee.
While membership is initially being managed through the Executive Management Committee, FAS is able to collect and store details of anyone wishing to Register Interest in the committee for future membership consideration.

Note that any contact and other information provided to the FAS shall be stored and maintained by the Executive Management Committee and will not be made available in the public domain. Complete this Registration of Interest and submit it to fas@rtca.org.

Publicly Available Papers

Several papers were developed in response to questions/concerns from the UAS Community, which include: FTP1049, FTP1051, FTP1052, FTP1053, FTP1054, and FTP1055.

In addition, FAS has reviewed the entire software standards suite (paper and PDF) and requested RTCA and EUROCAE issue errata/corrigenda. The following documents are affected:

The Corrigenda are available on the for download at the links indicated above.

Questions

If you have a question about any of the ED-12C documents suite or on the documents published by FAS, please submit it to: fas@rtca.org

Contact

•     RTCA (fas@rtca.org)
•     EUROCAE (eurocae@eurocae.net)
•     Co-Chair: Patty Bath (patty.bath@avistainc.com)
•     Co-Chair: Christophe Cucuron (christophe.cucuron@airbus.com)