Disappearance Of A Second Airliner In Five Years Spurs Interest In Flight Data Recording Streaming
The NTSB said last week that it was studying the possibility of live streaming of flight data recorder information. Joe Kolly, the director of research and engineering for the NTSB made no commentsregarding the disappearance of flight MH 370 in an interview with Reuters, but he said discussions about live streaming of black box data from airliners are more prevalent now because it took nearly 2 years to recover the flight data box from the Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Brazil to France in 2009.
In the discussions with Kolly, he indicated that working groups are meeting to determine such things as what type of data a system like this would need to transmit and what event would trigger the data to berecorded.
A Canadian company, FLYHT Aerospace Solutions, is working on an automated flight information reporting system that can also stream black box data in emergencies. Their system could serve as a basis for determining what is needed. Richard Hayden, a company director with FLYHT said there was growing interest in his company's technology.
It stands to reason that the disappearance of flight MH 370 will add more to the discussions on about flight data recorder streaming of information.
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The Oceanic Position Tracking Improvement & Monitoring (OPTIMI) project was launched by the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) after the tragic accident of Air France Flight 447, that occurred over the South Atlantic in June 2009, showed improvements were needed in the monitoring of air traffic in oceanic and remote low density airspace and in coordination between Air Traffic Control (ATC) and Search and Rescue (SAR) services in these oceanic areas.FLYHTStream™ is a proprietary Emergency Streaming Mode providing proactive risk management for aircraft awareness and incident analysis. FLYHTStream automatically transmits four-dimensional GPS-based position and flight data recorder information when automatically triggered by an airborne event, initiated in the air by the pilot or on the ground by the airline. The real-time streaming of critical flight data to the ground creates a “virtual black box”, allowing the data to be analyzed immediately.
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He said the system had
not caught on as well as expected given airlines' resistance to anything
that increased costs. But he said it cost less than $100,000 to install
a new system on an airplane, and a few dollars per flight hour to
receive the data.
The system is in use on 350 aircraft today, including many that fly over
remote areas such as Alaska, Canada, Africa, Afghanistan and Russia.
FLYHT also recently won a deal to provide the system for a Chinese
aircraft operator, Hayden said.
"This isn't expensive, and we don't have to build any infrastructure
since we use the Iridim satellites," Hayden said, noting that FLYHT was
also exploring opportunities to increase its work with military
operators.
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System is in use on 300 aircraft today, initial cost $100,000, uses Iridium network for data transmission. Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/world/u-s-ntsb-studying-streaming-of-black-box-flight-data-1457073.html?utm_source=ref_article
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Flyht's Automated Flight Information Reporting System, or AFIRS, would have been sending a steady stream of the same information as the events unfolded using Iridium satellites, Hayden said.
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