Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
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 ...
A lot of data is already streamed and both A and B are moving to 'connected' aircraft so sending data on a connection oriented
always on broadband link should not be a problem.
A benefit is the huge amount of analytics that can be carried out while the aircraft is in flight.
(It is said that the most eager supporter of
Alexander Graham Bell's novel telephone saw a case for each town having one.)