Why don't voice radio communications use FM?

"Grumman-581" writes:

I believe that there are some software controls for the coffee pot... On one
of the aircraft that I was reading the docs on, there were software controls
for various operations and measurements of the waste water system...

Sounds like an Airbus.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Sounds like an Airbus.

Perhaps... Perhaps it was one of the Bombadier aircraft... I was reading so
many docs while coming up to speed on the project that it all kind of
blurred together after awhile... The best I remember, there were temperature
sensors in the waste water system in addition to heaters for the lines so
that the temperature at altitude didn't cause everything to freeze up...
Various sensors could be read and were to be displayed on certain displays
if they exceeded some particular normal operating range, IIRC... There was
this one particular cabin lighting system that consisted of red, green, and
blue LEDs with software control of the intensity and color for various zones
in the aircraft... You would send a particular formated TCP/IP message via a
socket connection to a particular controller that would then change the
intensity of the LEDs in the specified zone... Quite a bit of the
communication between the various devices was handled via TCP/IP
communication... I believe that Rockwell had been granted a patent on that
approach...

YOu don't want to talk about blech until you've had to change the cabin
airflow filter on a 727 in a cold hangar at 3 am with a hangover back in the
days when you could smoke on board the aircraft. Nicotine, for those of you
who haven't ever seen the raw stuff, mixed with all the rest of the crap
that had flowed through the airplane, strongly resembles drippy malted snot.

Jim




"Emily" wrote in message
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Just kidding. Have you ever seen a coffee pot just pulled off an
airliner? Blech.

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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Which systems? entertainment system? coffee pot? weather display? PFD?

I'm not sure which ones were on what type of embedded system since I was
only up there for a 6 month contract and didn't really get much experience
in what all the other groups were doing... Basically my own niche, for the
most part, but I was aware of them using various types of embedded O/Ss for
different things... The portion that I was working on was an embedded Linux
platform... Embedded WinCE was used for some other things and embedded XP
was used for other things... Sorry I can't be more specific, but I really
didn't get a chance to see everything that they were doing up there... What
I did get a chance to see was pretty neat though... Enough to reinforce to
me that if you have the money, someone has a way for you to spend it...