Gearbox IHUMS
I was not directly involved but I seem to remember that a system was being developed in the days before the Airlog intrusion that involved taking a downlog from the DAPU and transmitting it back to base on the flight positioning system to be monitored by the IHUMS engineer. This would occur about every ten minutes. There was also an inflight SOAP facility involving a laser snining through a transparent tube. I feel that this would be a more practical system than the pilot being confronted with a diluge of information.