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Electronic flight bag showing the airport diagram of Avalon Airport. An electronic flight bag (EFB) is an electronic information management device that helps flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently with less paper [1] providing the reference material often found in the pilot's carry-on flight bag, including the flight-crew operating manual, navigational charts ...
Some advisory circulars are only a few pages long and do little more than reference a recommended standard; for example, AC 20-152 referencing DO-254. [8] Others, like AC 20-115 C/D, are considerably longer; in this case including guidance on how to transition from DO-178 revision B to C [ 9 ] while AC 20-152A adds several new objectives to an ...
FAA Order 8110.105B, Airborne Electronic Hardware Approval Guidelines is an explanation of how Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) personnel can use and apply the publication DO-254, Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware, RTCA, and the additional guidance and clarifications in advisory circular
Initially released in 2000, the DO-254/ED-80 standard was not necessarily considered policy until recognized by the FAA in 2005 through AC 20-152 as a means of compliance for the design assurance of electronic hardware in airborne systems. [1] The guidance in this document is applicable, but not limited, to such electronic hardware items as
The Advisory Circular AC 20-152A, Development Assurance for Airborne Electronic Hardware, identifies the RTCA-published standard DO-254 as defining "an acceptable means, but not the only means" to secure FAA approval of electronic hardware for use within the airspace subject to FAA authority. With the 2022 release of Revision A (effectively a ...
The circular provides a rationale for the upper limit for the Average Probability per Flight Hour for Catastrophic Failure Conditions of 1 x 10 −9 or "Extremely Improbable". [5] Failure Conditions resulting in relatively more severe effects must be relatively less likely to occur; that is, an inverse relationship between severity and ...
Toyota issued a "do not drive" advisory for about 50,000 vehicles in the U.S. after certain air bags in the vehicles were recalled due to a part inside that could explode once deployed.
The FAA Advisory Circular (AC) 20-170 [1] refers to DO-297. Along with ARINC 653 and DO-248 , the DO-297 standard guides "Safety of flight for IMA systems" [ 2 ] DO-297 provides specific guidance for the stakeholders, defining the following roles [ 3 ]