Originally Posted by
MATELO
Can I just put the satellite link to bed once and for all.
I thought we already did?
Bandwidth as such isn't even the real problem, as we calculated earlier, it's the several thousands of individual little data streams, that have to be handled
securely without
any interruption. While technologically possible, the whole system would have to be designed and built from scratch.
As you say, the aerial is the other problem....
Satellite aerials are
not omni-directional... even relatively wide-angle ones still need steering and locking on to the satellite.
Going down in an unusual attitude would most often mean losing the lock-on.
So would flying down a valley before crashing into a mountainside, unless the satellite happened to be right overhead.
So I agree with you.
Let's concentrate on finding the recorders themselves, come hell or high water (in the most literal sense...).
CJ