do data recorders/ black boxes use tapes or solid state ?

x in the city · 2010-08-31 00:24:44

guys just watching ACI and it seems about +50% of the time information retrieved from black boxes, cockpit recorders etc is useless. Do they use memory/electronic devices for storing voices or is it all tape..? just wondering, i would be amazed if modern aircraft use tape tbh!

31-08-2010 01:24AM

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guys

just watching ACI and it seems about +50% of the time information retrieved from black boxes, cockpit recorders etc is useless.

Do they use memory/electronic devices for storing voices or is it all tape..?

just wondering, i would be amazed if modern aircraft use tape tbh!

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Older ones had a magnetic tape,modern DFDR's and CVR's are solid state

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