Retrieving FDR data from a plane that hasn't crashed
Good afternoon all,
Apologies first of all if this is in the wrong forum, or if the question has been asked before. I'm trying to find out how easy (or difficult) it is to retrieve data from a flight data recorder with the unit still in situ. That is, would it be feasible to download the data from an aircraft during its turnaround time? I suspect it may be marginally easier on newer aircraft, but probably isn't easy in general?
Why am I asking? I'm a pilot and aviation enthusiast, but I'm also a data scientist and I'm looking to use large volumes of data to analyse flight operations in near real time to highlight issues while the plane is still on the ground that may result in an incident if it's allowed to take off. Things that the crew may have dismissed as not significant enough to warrant grounding the plane at the time.
I am just trying to find out how feasible accessing the data would be because if it's difficult and time consuming then obviously the airlines won't go for it, and so that's a non-starter, and my model will need to focus purely on getting the FDR data from crashes only into my algorithms.