..but for the moment at least I prefer stone-age connections to the bits that keep me the right way up...
Having spent a memorable 35 minutes with elevator and elevator trim
rock solid. Stone age controls are not always infallible.
This data could all have been sent to Spain, NZ and Germany within seconds of the crash - using satellite communications. Heaven knows, kids can play real-time games with people on the other side of the world these days. It's long past time that the black boxes are no more than backup system to a regular data transmission...any anomaly causing a huge increase of sampling.