Data recorded by the flight recorder are transmitted over a cellular telephone system to a flight operations center once the aircraft has landed. The cellular telephone system may use the Internet. The flight data may be compressed or encrypted and transmission may be initiated by a weight on wheels signal from the aircraft undercarriage. The data may be sent in packets with automatic sending so long as any data threads remain active. INDEPENDENT CLAMS are included for (a) a method of transmitting flight data (b) and a computer readable medium carrying instructions causing a computer to transmit flight data via a cellular network.
FLUGZEUGDATENAQUISITION UND ÜBERTRAGUNGSSYSTEM
2018-04-19
Patent
Electronic Resource
German
IPC: | G06F ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING , Elektrische digitale Datenverarbeitung / B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT / G07C TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS , Zeit- oder Anwesenheitskontrollgeräte / G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS / H04B TRANSMISSION , Übertragung / H04L TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION , Übertragung digitaler Information, z.B. Telegrafieverkehr |