Originally Posted by
Concours77
Emphatically disagree. Ask Rolls, who monitor their engines like they are separate from the airframe. In flight, the engines report in real time to a complex in (Devon?). If the data on the airframe can be streamed like Rolls does, the problem is solved.
It's not about the technical feasibility.
It's about the two questions: Who pays? and Who benefits?
I'd suggest that the answers to those two questions differ significantly depending on whether we're talking about an airline/OEM arrangement for sending EHM data which has pretty immediate benefits, or an operator sending a ton of flight parameters (to whom?) against the statistically highly unlikely probability of a hull loss rendering the recorders inaccessible.
Don't sell those L3 shares just yet ...