[LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Wed May 7 01:26:48 AEST 2014


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Jim Birch <planetjim at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems unlikely that any retrofit to would be justified in terms of
> opportunity costs for improving flight safety.
>

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/6/5686572/easa-black-box-upgrade-proposal

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 The notoriously cost-sensitive air travel industry will have to upgrade
its standard flight recorder equipment if new rules proposed in Europe are
adopted. Published
today<http://easa.europa.eu/newsroom-and-events/news/easa-publishes-new-proposals-flight-recorders-and-locating-devices>by
the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), these require an extension
of the minimum signal broadcasting time of Underwater Locating Devices
(ULDs) from 30 to 90 days, giving search and rescue teams more time to do
their jobs, as well as a longer locating range. Additionally, the current
minimum of two hours of cockpit audio
recording<http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/28/5556812/black-boxes-are-drowning-in-red-tape>would
be extended to 20 hours, covering the full duration of most flights
in and out of the continent. The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) regulation
would come into effect from the beginning of 2019, along with a
prescription that it does not record to "obsolete" magnetic wire or tape.
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FC

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