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RTCA Offers Training on the application of DO-178B, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification. Modules also consider
DO-248B and DO-278
Training conducted at RTCA
1828 L Street, NW, Suite 805
Washington D.C. 20036
Classes start at 9:00 a.m. each day
September 3-5, 2008 . . . Now Registering
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A three-day course that focuses on the details of DO-178B concepts, rationale and applications. |
$1,620 |
$1,395 |
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Highly Qualified Instructors
RTCA has contracted with Certification Services, Inc. (CSI), to provide DO-178B training. One or more of the following five Level A Software Designated Engineering Representatives (DERs) will provide the training:
- Michael DeWalt: former FAA National Resource Specialist for software
- Steven Paasch: former FAA headquarters specialist for operational safety and software interaction of air traffic service systems, instructor for safety assessment and software issues
- Frank McCormick: former Boeing DER for fly-by-wire and autopilot/flight director software, former Boeing instructor in programming languages
- Michael Bryan: former Boeing DER for flight control software, former Boeing instructor for on-board maintenance software and on-board software loading at airlines
- Keith Hill: former Chief Engineer for Software Engineering, Boeing 777
Each instructor has prepared and approved certification data associated with aircraft modifications and new type designs, including aircraft safety assessments, avionics software, and environmental qualification. Each instructor has also supported the planning, development efforts, laboratory tests, ground tests, and flight tests avionics projects and collectively they have served more than a hundred firms in more than a dozen countries. The scope of the instructors' experience embraces virtually every kind of digital system used in aircraft, both fixed-wing and rotorcraft. Examples include fly-by-wire, autopilots, autothrottles, flight directors, primary air data displays, secondary flight controls, full authority digital engine controllers and engine instrumentation, pneumatic controls, electrical controls, communications systems, navigation systems, brake systems, environmental controls, fuel-quantity indication, fuel management, and numerous others.
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COURSE SYLLABUS:
Practitioners Course
- Aircraft-level certification context for DO-178B
- How to establish satisfaction of DO-178B objectives
- How to create an effective PSAC, SAS, SCI
- How to establish satisfaction of traceability and compliance objectives
- How to establish satisfaction of consistency and compatibility objectives
- How to establish satisfaction of accuracy objectives
- How to establish satisfaction of verifiability objectives
- How to establish satisfaction of testing objectives
- How to establish satisfaction of structural and requirements-coverage objectives
- How to evaluate tools and demonstrate their compliance
- How to qualify tools in a cost-effective manner
- How to relate the system safety assessment to software design assurance levels
- How to capture internal evaluation results for reuse
- How to establish satisfaction of quality assurance objectives
- How to conduct a software conformity review
- How to obtain latest guidance for application of DO-178B
- How to conduct an effective DO-178B assessment review with a certification authority
- How to construct cases for use of additional considerations listed in DO-178B
- How to demonstrate acceptability of partition/protection attributes
- How to assess existing practices for compliance with DO-178B and minimize future effort
- How to obtain approval for previously developed software
- How to organize a regulatory review plan to minimize project impact
- How to resolve interpretation issues within DO-178B
- How to structure dialog between your software personnel and a certification authority
- How to structure effective relationships with DERs
Contact: Rudy Ruana, email rruana@rtca.org, FAX 202-833-9434, Phone 202-833-9339
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