Originally Posted by CONF iture
That's what they write on January 8, but then how do we call what's on their website ... publicité mensongère ?
If you read the BEA website a bit more carefully, you'll see the article mostly deals with
non-FDR type avionics, which nowadays often also contains non-volatile memory (minor bludner in the article which mention "mémoire volatile").
They have equipment that can get at the contents of individual chips. (the manufacturer would not have such equipment, since they would have no need for it).
Once they actually get the raw bits and bytes, they work very closely
with the manufacturer to actually decode and analyse the data.
md80fanatic posted a link to the Honeywell "Recorder Test and Ground Support Equipment (GSE)" and said "This device reads all Honeywell solid state recorders. I would bet other manufacturers offer similar data access devices for airlines to use."
Sure. It's a big laptop with extra interface boards.
It's made to talk to an
intact FDR.....
I've designed and developed very similar equipment (used for FDR development and acceptance testing), so I know what's in it.
CJ