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Old 26th Dec 2009, 15:03
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ChristiaanJ
 
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PickyPerkins,

Think it through.....

- There is no equipment in current aircraft capable of transmitting, or receiving and recording, a continuous 10 to 20 kb/sec data stream over a distance of a few hundred miles, omni-directionally.

- The FDR data in the aircraft (usually between FDAU and FDR) are perfectly useless for broadcasting... they would need additional time-stamps, sync, labels, etc. .... i.e., your scheme would require another piece of equipment for the re-coding, which currently doesn't even exist.

I can think of several other points why your scheme is impractical....

Only incremental improvements of existing equipment (such as the pingers) or very cheap add-ons (such as the dye markers) have any chance of being accepted to solve what is a very rare problem.

CJ
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