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Airbus' New Black Boxes Will Eject From Crashing Planes, So They're Easier to Find.
IT'S BEEN MORE than three years since Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 vanished, and after spending $150 million and scouring a huge chunk of the Indian Ocean, the international search effort has turned up just a few scraps of metal. It now seems likely investigators will never find the bulk of the wreckage nor the Boeing 777's black boxes, and as a result will never really know why it went down, or how to prevent it happening again. (www.wired.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
How does the black box know it's crashing? Will they self eject in bumpy air pockets? I'd rather have periodic burst data to a satellite containing position, altitude, and critical parameters. That way the data actually gets to SAR.
As a pilot, you know things aren't going well when the black boxes eject.
How long until cockpit cameras are added to the audio and control data. That would be the real safety investigation upgrade. A picture is worth a 1000 words.
That's a huge political problem; the unions simply won't allow it. Same fight happened before they instituted CVRs.
I don't think it is as contentious as it once was, most pilots I have spoken with don't have a problem with the concept as they are used to the intrusiveness of the CVR already, getting the Union to go along might be a bit harder but shouldn't be insurmountable. Policies limiting use of recorded info for administrative action would go a long way toward nullifying any union objection.
Totally unneeded. They are assuming that these would have worked in a few major past accidents but IMO they are wrong. We already have up to the second FDR data delivered via sat-link because planes don't care about privacy issues. Duplicate CVR data could just as easily be sent and only reviewed in case of incident or accident.