Online Flight Data Recorder: Best Idea In a Long Time [Airplanes]

Every time there\’s an airplane crash and they could\’t find the flight data recorder I ask an analogous question: Why don\’t they transmit your complete data and record it in a server in real time? That\’s what Iridium thinks too.

The mobile satellite communications company is working on that, using a two kilobyte-per-second data link between airplanes and its global network of satellites. The system has been already demonstrated in flights over the Atlantic, using Airbus and Boeing planes. [Aviation Week]

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