tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3110246970957910039.post7634085313880355867..comments2023-12-17T00:33:12.503-06:00Comments on In the MIDDLE of the RIGHT: SO I gotta question:B http://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3110246970957910039.post-40734457460051134002014-04-06T19:10:41.984-05:002014-04-06T19:10:41.984-05:00But do ya need all that data? Throttle position(s)...But do ya need all that data? Throttle position(s), aileron/rudder/elevator, rpms(x2), voice and radio traffic. Airspeed. Heading and altitude and attitude. Maybe GPS coords. <br /><br />That isn't that much even in alphanumerics. And it'd be a start. You could likely do that over a 56 k modem if you updated every 30 seconds or 1 minute. <br /><br />And we'd know a lot more about where to look for 370 than we do now....B https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3110246970957910039.post-64711478372578149852014-04-06T18:26:48.836-05:002014-04-06T18:26:48.836-05:00It's a ton of data - so much data that they on...It's a ton of data - so much data that they only store the last 2 hours of cockpit voice recording on the black boxes. Older data gets overwritten because it's too expensive to keep more.<br /><br />And the comms link between the recorder and the storage media in the black box is 1000+ times the speed of the link to whoever might be listening.<br /><br />It may be in the future that comms links become fast enough to capture this, but right now they're surprisingly slow.<br /><br />Not an aircraft guy, but I am a comms guy,Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.com