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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
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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
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Types of Flight Recorders and How to Choose the Right One

Commercial airlines often use two types of flight recorders – a flight data recorder (FDR) and a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) – for different functionality.

12/01/2020
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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
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Industry Experts at ITC 2018

Paul Cook, Russell Moore, and Patrick Quinn at the International Telemetering Conference (ITC) showcasing our expanded line of Aerospace Instrumentation.

11/07/2018
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Putting Data Acquistion Units on a Diet for Small Launcher Applications

We look at how ruggedized Data acquisition units, used in aerospace flight test, can provide a low cost solution for some space mission systems.

08/03/2018