[dba-Tech] Downed planes and Black-box technology

Heenan, Lambert Lambert.Heenan at aig.com
Fri Jan 9 12:47:48 CST 2015


Transponders are only used in short range situations in the immediate vicinity of airports and other air-traffic control nodes. They rely on line-of-site communications, and so once an aircraft is over the horizon the transponders are not usable. Also they do indeed only respond to enquiries from the ground. They do not continuously transmit.

See http://www.cfidarren.com/r-transponder.htm

Lambert

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What I was thinking.

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Forgive me if this is a silly question, but what is the transponder for, if not identifying and locating the aircraft?


Jon

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Mark,

Absolutely. Could not agree more. There's just no excuse not to have GPS tracking. It's completely ubiquitous these days. I'm sure that all of the victims had smartphones with it so why not the airplanes?

Lambert

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Hi Lambert,

yes, I agree with you that the blackbox has a data logging requirement.
However, I presume that we all now also recognise that planes need an additional robust location identifier.

You are correct that there is no need to mix up the two, I was doing that.
With this in mind, all that airlines need to do is design, build and install a second device, the 365 day GPS tracker to existing aircraft.  We can leave the Black boxes as they are until next generation and then assess how to mix both parts.

Mark



On 8 January 2015 at 13:56, Heenan, Lambert <Lambert.Heenan at aig.com> wrote:

> ??? The black boxes are not about tracking where the panes are. They 
> record data about what the plane was doing, and cockpit conversations.
> That data and those conversations can lead to an understanding of what 
> went wrong in the event of an accident.
>
> Lambert
>
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> dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
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>
> Can someone explain why airlines keep relying on archaic black-box 
> technology when vastly superior GPS-based tracking solutions are 
> already on the market? No matter how much these new solutions cost, 
> surely they are less expensive than the price of an airliner + its 
> passengers. This makes no sense to me.
>
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