Yep. It seems almost trivial to upgrade the memory in a the voice and data recorders to current memory capabilities. Likewise, battery technology has moved along. However, as I said " It seems unlikely that any retrofit to would be justified in terms of opportunity costs for improving flight safety." Black boxes only improve safety indirectly by providing data that may - or may not - change aircraft design, pilot training or practices. My feeling would be that the vast majority of air accidents occur due to deviations from accepted best practice, eg, pilot error. The low hanging fruit is long gone.
However, there is still a psychological need to not have large important objects disappear without explanation. Cheers Jim _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
