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title: "ETSO-2C41d — CS-ETSO · Avioverse"
description: "Airborne Automatic Direction Finding (ADF) Equipment 1 Applicability This ETSO gives the requirements which airborne automatic direction finding…"
url: "https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/cs-etso/subpart-b/etso-2c41d"
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# ETSO-2C41d

European Technical Standard Orders (CS-ETSO) · CS-ETSO · EAR revision 1 Oct 2026

IR Implementing rule

## ETSO-2C41d

Airborne Automatic Direction Finding (ADF) Equipment

1 Applicability

This ETSO gives the requirements which airborne automatic direction finding equipment that is manufactured on or after the date of this ETSO must meet in order to be identified with the applicable ETSO marking 2 Procedures

2.1 General

Applicable procedures are detailed in CS-ETSO Subpart A.

2.2 Specific

None.

3 Technical Conditions

3.1 Basic

3.1.1 Minimum Performance Standard

Standards set forth in EUROCAE document ED-51 (1983 rev. 1987) or RTCA DO-179 plus additions shown paragraph 3.2 below.

3.1.2 Environmental Standard

See CS-ETSO Subpart A paragraph 2.1

3.1.3 Computer Software

See CS-ETSO Subpart A paragraph 2.2

3.2 Specific

Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) Document DO-179 (1982), used in US TSO-C41d differs from EUROCAE document ED-51 as follows:

ED-51 demands tuning increments of 0.5 kHz or less to match the European NDB frequency scheme (500 Hz channels), DO-179 demands increments of 1 kHz.

4 Marking

4.1 General

Marking is detailed in CS-ETSO Subpart A paragraph 1.2.

4.2 Specific

None.

5 Availability of Referenced Document

See CS-ETSO Subpart A paragraph 3.

IR · ETSO-2C41d — CS-ETSO · ED Decision 2003/10/RM · CS-ETSO Easy Access Rules · EAR revision 1 Oct 2026

[All rules in SUBPART B – LIST OF ETSOs](https://avioverse.aero/regulations/easa/cs-etso/subpart-b)

Consolidated from the EASA Easy Access Rules (revision 1 Oct 2026, extracted 13 Oct 2026) for convenience. Not the official publication — verify against the Official Journal of the European Union and the EASA publications before operational use.
