本文件旨在阐述SAE委员会S-7关于飞行甲板控制装置位置和驱动的建议。这些建议旨在最大限度地减少混乱和分心，从而减少过渡训练时间、机组错误、疲劳和其他不利于飞行安全和效率的因素。在提出这些建议时，委员会仔细审查了弹药委员会飞机委员会飞行甲板布局小组的工作、民用航空委员会、联邦航空局的建议和要求、航空公司运营商和飞机制造商的要求等，以防意见冲突，做出了适当的妥协。本文件的建议适用于使用往复式或涡轮式动力装置且在亚音速、跨音速或超音速状态下运行的商用多引擎运输机。 这些建议不适用于V/STOL配置。

The purpose of this document is to set forth the recommendations of SAE Committee S-7 relative to the location and actuation of flight deck controls. These recommendations are intended to minimize confusion and distraction and thereby reduce transition training time, crew errors, fatigue, and other factors detrimental to flight safety and efficiency. In arriving at these recommendations, the committee carefully reviewed the work of the flight deck layout panel of the Aircraft Committee of the Munitions Board, the recommendations and requirements of the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Federal Aviation Agency, the requirements of the airline operators, the aircraft manufacturers, etc. In cases where conflicting opinions existed, suitable compromises were made. The recommendations of this document apply to commercial type, multi-engine transport aircraft which utilize reciprocating or turbine type powerplants and which are operated in subsonic, transonic, or supersonic speed regimes. These recommendations are not intended to apply to V/STOL configurations.