I am part of the FLYHT, AeroMechanical Services Ltd. team and we have a data streaming product called FLYHTStream. This product is provided to our customers who use our combined airborne and ground systems to improve efficiencies, save money, track assets and reduce lost time due to maintenance or operational items requiring attention. FLYHTStream transmits the Flight Data Recorder (“FDR”) data in near-real time over the Iridium satellite network and can be triggered from the ground, by the pilot or automatically by our system installed on the aircraft. Our system works in conjunction with the black box. It is our hope that FLYHTStream will be used by airlines to analyze data during incidents by opening the lines of communication with the ground and giving the crew extra support to identify the problem as it is happening and help solve it. There have been concerns about the cost of the streaming and bandwidth, but the FLYHT solution makes that a non-issue as our system starts streaming based on a pre-identified set of triggers, it does not run through the whole flight. So the streaming only runs as the incident is happening and if it is a bonafied emergency situation and the customer is using our other cost saving tools, we do not charge for this service. We have demonstrated FLYHTStream as part of the BEA working group, Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses, the group that is investigating the AF 447 crash. There have been a number of articles about data streaming in the media recently and I have included one such link if you are interested. September 1, 2010: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/aviation-thinks-outside-black-box/
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I am part of the FLYHT, AeroMechanical Services Ltd. team and we have a data streaming product called FLYHTStream. This product is provided to our customers who use our combined airborne and ground systems to improve efficiencies, save money, track assets and reduce lost time due to maintenance or operational items requiring attention. FLYHTStream transmits the Flight Data Recorder (“FDR”) data in near-real time over the Iridium satellite network and can be triggered from the ground, by the pilot or automatically by our system installed on the aircraft. Our system works in conjunction with the black box. It is our hope that FLYHTStream will be used by airlines to analyze data during incidents by opening the lines of communication with the ground and giving the crew extra support to identify the problem as it is happening and help solve it. There have been concerns about the cost of the streaming and bandwidth, but the FLYHT solution makes that a non-issue as our system starts streaming based on a pre-identified set of triggers, it does not run through the whole flight. So the streaming only runs as the incident is happening and if it is a bonafied emergency situation and the customer is using our other cost saving tools, we do not charge for this service. We have demonstrated FLYHTStream as part of the BEA working group, Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses, the group that is investigating the AF 447 crash. There have been a number of articles about data streaming in the media recently and I have included one such link if you are interested. September 1, 2010: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/aviation-thinks-outside-black-box/