Future of aviation - fact or fiction

The new VLJ Eclipse 500 will have data link and on-board
data storage for maintenance.



"Bob Noel" wrote in
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| In article , Greg Farris

| wrote:
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| I like the part about the data being beamed back to the
ground for
| cross-check. I've often wondered why we still use flight
data recorders,
| with short (30min) recording capacity,
|
| because those are the old FDR and CVRs. Newer ones record
more data
| and longer periods. Eventually the old ones will be
replaced.
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| Note that instrumenting an aircraft, especially a
non-digital aircraft is
| incredibly expensive.
|
| when the data could be compiled
| every minute or so, compressed and sent in packets to a
ground station,
| where it would be easily recoverable.
|
| Consider how much spectrum would be required for this.
Who would pay for
| the air time and the ground infrastructure?
|
| Consider how few crashes occur each year for larger
aircraft.
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| Bob Noel
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