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Does the data include power information? At least you could get some sort of bound on the distance it is likely to have travelled.
by bbosh 13y ago
Does the data include power information? At least you could get some sort of bound on the distance it is likely to have travelled.
- dingaling 13y agoGood thinking; yes, fuel flow and power settings are included: http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/technology/systems_tech/monitoring_systems.jsp http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/technology/systems_tech/mon...
- jwise0 13y agoThat seems to indicate that the data are transmitted via ACARS. Is there another back-channel, if ACARS were unavailable for some reason?
- notthetup 13y agoIf they received the data that means the engines managed to communicate somehow. So that tells you the length of time the transmission unit was powered up. Also, using differential signal strength between successive communications one can generate an approximate trajectory (x km from satellite at y time) etc etc. This would surely narrow down the possible locations.