Aircraft operators may need to upgrade their existing flight recorders, such as cockpit voice recorders (CVR) and flight data recorders (FDR), for various reasons. These reasons include meeting new regulations (such as new 25-hour storage requirements), resolving obsolescence issues, reducing equipment size, weight, or power (SWaP), or gathering additional data. A key concern when upgrading flight recorders is minimizing aircraft downtime by ensuring the upgrade is quick and easy.
This document uses a specific case to discuss the benefits of modern flight recorders and to detail formal replacement procedures. While this is specific to certain recorders, the principles and steps are similar, if not identical, for other flight recorder combinations.
Download the white paper to learn more about:
- Flight recorder regulations
- Difficulties encountered changing recorders
- Upgrading from Curtiss-Wright’s MPFR to Fortress recorder