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News Release from: Heim Data Systems | Subject: Digital flight data recording
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 January 2007

The potential of digital flight data
recording

Digital technology has the potential to greatly enhance the accuracy and manageability of flight data recording while significantly lowering the cost, says Richard Bond.

Until recently users have not been able to fully realise the benefits of digital technology in flight data recording because of the absence of a widely accepted standard During the first generation of digital recording products, individual manufacturers developed their own proprietary solutions without any means for interoperability and data interchange

Each type of flight recorder required its own custom analysis platform.

This lack of flexibility prevented users from taking complete advantage of advancements in technology and competition between vendors.

That is all changing with the adoption of IRIG 106 Chapter 10, the digital onboard recorder standard, the culmination of several years' co-operative effort by the Range Commanders Council, manufacturers and users.

This new recording stan