Here is the big question. WTF is the "black box" a capture device for data?
Why can't it transmit to the cloud like I can with my Iphone and store data?
These jackholes that are in the aircraft industry need to get up with modern technology.
I think that this is a given. It's actually been in the works but why it's taking so long after 9/11 is beyond me. Probably FAA/JAA red tape.
Essentially for the same reason you can't use your iPhone in flight.
They've found this stuff by satellite floating on the ocean - eh - how many days ago? And we can't find it on the ocean surface? What does that say about our or any "search and rescue" capabilities? If no one can track a non-stealth airplane, why in hell do we need a fleet of stealth planes for!
Just sayin'. Actually, it tells me they are having a tough time constructing a diversionary "crash scene" to cover what actually happened to that 777.
Nothin' else makes sense, so why not consider a cover-up?
Woody
Not to mention the fact that almost all of the data on the black boxes is completely uninteresting--it's only useful in the few cases where there's a crash or other incident, which is a vanishingly small percentage of flights.It's all a question of bandwidth. Your iPhone needs a wifi connection to back up to the cloud. An airplane "black box", and all the information they store, would need a similar data connection.
In flight, that connection can only come from a satellite. At any given time, there are 100's of thousands of aircraft in the sky. There aren't enough satellites, satellite channels, or satellite bandwidth to handle that amount of simultaneous upload.
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