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There are many other system other then Starlink you could also use. And most airlines already have these installed anyway. And if a new plane costs minimum 25 m

There are many other system other then Starlink you could also use. And most airlines already have these installed anyway. And if a new plane costs minimum 25 million $, and most cost 50 million $ or more, a few 1000s to safely record data seems reasonable. Bandwidth issue for a bunch of audio files? I think we can figure that out. > (3) I don't think a single person would suggest we replace the Blackbox. This would be in addition, not instead. > (4) I'm sue the plane produces lots of data that isn't transmitted. It would generally be smart to transmit far more data then we currently do and I'm not sure those methods are up to large increases. But if they are, then yes that would be good.

dgrin91 3y ago
For the cost - you are talking about the capex. Starlink would go under opex, and thats where the margins lie. You can probably make the numbers work, but no one wants to touch this. For bandwidth - there are typically around 10k planes in the sky at any time, and that number typically grows. Thats 10k audio files streaming at a time, all day, every day. Add to that the nominal Starlink traffic that already causes bandwidth issues and you end up with probably non-trivial bandwidth issues until there is larger scaleup