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Post #1179 in which I posted the ACARS list of received messages, I mentioned that the message timing was to the "
integer of the minute". On further reference to the BEA Interim Report No.1, I am bound to say that the wording should actually be "
rounded to the nearest minute", as per:-
All the messages are timed to the nearest minute. The timing of an ECAM message consists of the time of its acquisition by the CMC, and that of a fault message is the time at which the correlation window opened. It is therefore possible in a CFR to find an ECAM message preceding a fault message that is nevertheless timed one minute before it.
That being the case, then the #0210 AOC position could be between 02:09:31 and 02:10:30, but as it takes precedence, it was most likely timed and transmitted at 02:10:30 and received 4 seconds later.
Hope that doesn't confuse the issues, and the original post has been edited.
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