This is an introductory class designed to educate system engineers, hardware design engineers, and test engineers in the aspects of DO-160 as it pertains to equipment qualification in support of aircraft certification. For system and hardware engineers, the intent is to educate and empower them to develop equipment designs that are compliant with DO-160 by design and avoid expensive redesigns to correct issues found late in the development cycle during test. For test engineers, it is intended to assist them in properly developing test plans for their products. For each test section of DO-160, we provide purpose, adverse effects, categories, a high-level, step-by-step guide through the test procedure and design considerations for passing the test. Also included is an overview of a top-down requirements management approach (systems engineering), review of related FAA advisory material, an overview of grounding and bonding, wire shielding practices and lightning protection for composites.
Students will work in teams to gain hands-on experience building a new STC Electrical/Avionics System Widget to meet Direct Effects of Lightning DO-160 Section 23 certification requirements and the other DO-160 certification requirements. They will also prepare a report detailing the test levels for all DO-160 sections and defining where the equipment is located on the aircraft, the criticality of the equipment, and the required testing categories incorporating the information they learn as they progress through the course.
Note: Please be reminded that the standards referenced in this course must be obtained by the student and are not included with course registration.
Members will receive access to the standard(s) through their company library (my.rtca.org) at no additional cost.
Non-Members may purchase the standard(s) via the RTCA store.