DO-160

DO-160, Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment is a standard for the environmental testing of avionics hardware. It is published by the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) and supersedes DO-138.

DO-160, Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment is a standard for the environmental testing of avionics hardware. It is published by the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) and supersedes DO-138. ==Outline of contents== ===Introduction=== The DO-160 document was first published on February 28, 1975 to specify test conditions for the design of avionics electronic hardware in airborne systems. Since then the standard has undergone subsequent revisions up through Revision G. ===Purpose=== This document outlines a set of minimal standard environmental test conditions (categories) and corresponding test procedures for airborne equipment for the entire spectrum of aircraft from light general aviation aircraft and helicopters through the jumbo jets and supersonic transport categories of aircraft. The purpose of these tests is to provide a controlled (laboratory) means of assuring the performance characteristics of airborne equipment in environmental conditions similar of those which may be encountered in airborne operation of the equipment. The standard environmental test conditions and test procedures contained within the standard, may be used in conjunction with applicable equipment performance standards, as a minimum specification under environmental conditions, which can ensure an adequate degree of confidence in performance during use aboard an air vehicle. The Standard Includes Sections on: The user of the standard must also decide interdependently of the standard, how much additional test margin to allow for uncertainty of test conditions and measurement in each test. ==Version history== RTCA/DO-160, RTCA, INC., February 28, 1975 RTCA/DO-160 A, RTCA, INC., January 25, 1980 RTCA/DO-160 B, RTCA, INC., July 20, 1984 RTCA/DO-160 C, RTCA, INC., December 4, 1989 RTCA/DO-160 C, Change 1, RTCA, INC., September 27, 1990 RTCA/DO-160 C, Change 2, RTCA, INC., June 19, 1992 RTCA/DO-160 C, Change 3, RTCA, INC., May 13, 1993 RTCA/DO-160 D, RTCA, INC., July 29, 1997 RTCA/DO-160 D Change 1, RTCA, INC., December 14, 2000 RTCA/DO-160 D Change 2, RTCA, INC., June 12, 2001 RTCA/DO-160 D Change 3, RTCA, INC., December 5, 2002 RTCA/DO-160 E, RTCA, INC., December 9, 2004 RTCA/DO-160 F, RTCA, INC., December 6, 2007 RTCA/DO-160 G, RTCA, INC., December 8, 2010 RTCA/DO-160 G Change 1, RTCA, INC., December 16, 2014 ==Resources== FAR Part 23/25 §1301/§1309 FAR Part 27/29 AC 23/25.1309 RTCA DO-160 ==Bibliography== Aircraft Systems: Mechanical, Electrical and Avionics Subsystems Integration (Aerospace Series (PEP)) (Jun 3, 2008) by Ian Moir and Allan Seabridge RTCA List of Available Documents, RTCA Inc., https://web.archive.org/web/20130512172348/http://www.rtca.org/Files/ListofAvailableDocsMarch2013.pdf (March 2013) Avionics: Development and Implementation (Electrical Engineering Handbook) by Cary R. Spitzer (Hardcover - Dec 15, 2006) Avionics Navigation Systems (April 1997) by Myron Kayton and Walter R. Fried http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Incidents/DOCS/Research/Rvs/Article/EMI.html The European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment EUROCAE ED-14 ==Certification in Europe== Replace FAA with EASA, JAA or CAA Replace FAR with JAR Replace AC with AMJ ==See also== Hazard analysis Reliability (semiconductor) MIL-STD-810 ARP4754 ARP4761 RTCA/DO-254 RTCA/DO-178C ==External links==

Text derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1329239772 under CC BY-SA 4.0; modifications have been made.