Originally Posted by
captains_log
Sorry if this gets deleted as innapropriate im not sorry for saying it, 2 hours for CVR is an utter disgrace. In this day and age for compression and audio storage could easily be hundreds of hours to SSD. I hope if anything from this terrible loss of souls there is an extensive review of how voice/ data is recorded and tracked if lost due to tragedy or otherwise.
AF447 proved a 30day ping is massively inadequate, pitch SAR time against the extra cost of carrying a 21 century black box..
I fully agree. With terabyte SSDs consumer items there is no excuse for being this parsimonious. I would think the only excuse is that by comparison to previous recording systems the current CVR/DFDR are an improvement. However, even carrying the recordings is now becoming obsolete with recording to 'the cloud' being perfectly feasible. And had that been the case with MH370 this thread would have been considerably shorter and a lot of anguish would have been spared.