Originally Posted by BOAC
mm - if there is 'Acars Data' floating around as you say, where is it and what does it contain?
The problems with ACARS and analog new type of communication - RR engines' management messages- is that they are said proprietary. That fact put their messages out of the ICAO operators' rules. i.e. AF447 ACARS told in one page and real time what happened helping a high probability analyse. That analyse has been confirmed two years later by the Flight Data Recorder. But the Crew missed that analyse from ACARS available in the cockpit at the same time because certified procedures did not use them. Congratulations to the BEA who published ACARS in the report.