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Not necessarily, could very well be that US planes are shipped without 25 hours of recording capacity.

• sleepybrett 3y ago
  Don't be so dense. Even if that is the case, it it probably is not, there exists a certified flight recorder module with 25h capacity. They should not have to go through any 'soup to nuts' certification process for a new module with this capacity. They could simply take the current module they use in europe, give it a quick once over ( assuming european standards are at least as strict as american standards.. which i'm sure they are ) and say 'yup, buy and install those in all new craft'.
  • hef19898 3y ago
    Aircraft certification is, well, peculiar. And believe me, modifying a delivered aircraft is nowhere near as easy as "install that certified box", because said box has to be compatible with the aircraft you want to install it on. And as I said, no idea how US-only aircraft differ, hardware and software wise, from their European airspace brethren. Do no, it is propably not as easy as going into maintenance mode and set a toghle from 2 to 25 hours on the voice recorder firmware.
    • sleepybrett 3y ago
      any 737 in europe uses such a module as it is required.