Safety Topics: Cockpit Voice Recorders and Flight Recorders Part 2: Recommendations and Proposals

Abstract

IN its concern with the adequacy of minimum standards, the NTSB over the years has been able to identify the usefulness of the required parameters and the potential significance of parameters that are not currently required. It considers that requirements need to be made to assist in establishing the probable causes of accidents and developing recommendations that might preclude these types of accidents from recurring. The proposals are that the current requirements would be expanded to include the NSTB's recommendation for newly manufactured aeroplanes and existing ones equipped with an ARINC 429 digital data bus or its equivalent. In addition, the recorder requirements of Appendix B would be extended to include Part 135 operations with aeroplanes and rotorcraft capable of carrying 20 passengers or more. Another flight recorder requirement would apply to newly manufactured, multi‐engine, turbine‐powered aircraft capable of carrying 10 or more passengers. It would be required that aeroplanes be equipped with flight recorders that at least record the parameters detailed in Appendix B of Part 121.

Citation

Mayday (1988), "Safety Topics: Cockpit Voice Recorders and Flight Recorders Part 2: Recommendations and Proposals", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 60 No. 8, pp. 31-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb036666