Firstly all avionic equipment is qualified to RTCA/DO-160 (European equivalent EUROCAE ED-14). All new equipment is test to DO-160D however there is still equipment installed on aircraft that was originally tested to DO-160A. Overtime the DO-160 has become more stringent with tighter emission levels and high immunity test levels which includes HIRF testing.
There is one problem that arises from this as most of the cabling installed on the aircraft is unscreened. This is for weight saving reasons. Therefore with alot of older aircraft having a mixture of new and old equipments installed using cabling that is unscreened it is reasonable to assume that some Passenger Portable devices such as Gameboys, Laptop Computors, Mobile Phones, etc. will if that passenger happens to be sitting above a cable run cause interference with one or more aircraft systems. The UKCAA keeps a log of all reported incidents. Regards Andy Andrew Price Principal Development Engineer (EMC Specialist) BAE SYSTEMS Avionics A125 Christopher Martin Road Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL tel: +44 (0) 1268 883308 email: andrew.p.pr...@baesystems.com *************************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
