Who'd have access to that data though? Manufacturer's or those who deal with the aftermath.With high speed telemetry, it's usual to have two way communication "handshaking" to ensure that packets of data are transmitted reliably to base. It's not essential though.
I imagine that the BB technology is hopelessly outdated compared to technological advances in remote telemetry over the last 15 years, but that's just a wild guess.
I wasn't speculating about any aspect of the current tragedy. I was just suggesting that high speed telemetry is probably capable of giving at least as much data as a "conventional" black box, and probably a lot more reliably and quickly. Given that it takes many, many years to develop a new large aircraft, it's hardly surprising that many aspects of the electronics are hopelessly outdated when the aircraft comes into service.Who'd have access to that data though? Manufacturer's or those who deal with the aftermath.
Given the route being flown, there's a fair few unknowns about its location in the the last half hour.
I wasn't referring to recent events either, except for that last part. See edited post to see what I meant.I wasn't speculating about any aspect of the current tragedy. I was just suggesting that high speed telemetry is probably capable of giving at least as much data as a "conventional" black box, and probably a lot more reliably and quickly. Given that it takes many, many years to develop a new large aircraft, it's hardly surprising that many aspects of the electronics are hopelessly outdated when the aircraft comes into service.
Edit: I think it would be reckless for the data to have to be made available via the manufacturer for obvious reasons.
Now appears to be pointing towards a bomb
Given the route being flown, there's a fair few unknowns about its location in the the last half hour.
- Investigators are racing against the clock to find the black boxes which are expected to stop emitting signals on June 24
Actually that's not correct. There are black box systems that can live stream (e.g. the FLYHTStream system from Flyht Aerospace Solutions) and some airlines are retrofitting them - Qatar Airways for example.