Originally Posted by
Terry Dactil
Yeah... Let's redesign the system and have a battery back up for the recorder.
Pity all the sensors feeding it information also stopped working at the same time so there is nothing to record..
No need to be harsh. I'll admit that I assumed the FDR ran until the end of the flight. Until
tdracer gave his
explanation, I hadn't considered the complexity associated.
At the same time, the FCOM says the FDR runs in flight regardless of the engine status.