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Time to Move to 25-Hour Cockpit Voice Recorders

Time to Move to 25-Hour Cockpit Voice Recorders

Today, in the U.S., cockpit voice recorders (CVR) used on commercial aircraft are only required to capture and store two hours of audio information. After two hours, the most recent information is lost when the CVR, due its limited storage capacity, records over the previous cockpit conversations.

02/12/2024
flight data recorder

Build or Buy: The Strains of Designing a Flight Recorder

Designing a flight recorder (FR) that complies to international standards and crash survivability is very challenging and more expensive than buying one.

12/21/2020
black box airplane

Meeting the Latest Regulations and Increasing Safety

New flight recorder system from Honeywell and Curtiss-Wright enhances safety and eases access to onboard data for operators.

02/07/2019
flight safety

How to Strengthen Redundant Systems with Dissimilarity and Complex Voting

We look at how to strengthen redundancy with dissimilarity and complex voting in order to meet DO 254 DAL A requirements.

07/26/2018
aircraft monitoring

Extending an Aircraft’s Safe Lifetime

We look at the range of aircraft monitoring programs which can detect structural failures, reducing unscheduled maintenance and costs.

07/16/2018
military vehicles

How Mission System Architecture Choices Affect SWaP

The challenge of fitting all the mission system electronics on-board SWaP-constrained military vehicles, while meeting reliability and schedule constraints.

07/13/2018