Hovedgearboxen (MGB) har forårsaket de mest spektakulære helikopterulykkene jeg vet om, bl.a Turøyulykken hvor hovedrotoren forlater helikopteret. Da var det 2. gang det skjedde. (Red.)
FAA Wants To Increase
Recording Times On CVRs To 25 Hours
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Published:November 30, 2023
The Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing to extend cockpit voice recorders
(CVRs) recording time to 25 hours for all newly manufactured aircraft that
require them, according to a press release issued
today (Nov. 30).
Existing
regulations require CVRs, commonly known as black boxes, to record a minimum of
two hours before new data begins to overwrite the previous recording. A summary
of the agency’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) states that increasing the
recording time would “provide accident investigators, aircraft operators, and
civil aviation authorities with substantially more cockpit voice recorder data
to help find the probable causes of incidents and accidents, prevent future
incidents and accidents, and make the FAA’s regulations more consistent with
existing international requirements.”
The
announcement comes as the agency pledged to take action on the issue during a
safety summit in March. Meanwhile, the NTSB has been calling for the change
since 2018 but pressed the importance after a spate of close calls involving
commercial aircraft this year. In six of those cases, CVR data was unavailable.
“This rule
will give us substantially more data to identify the causes of incidents and
help prevent them in the future,” said FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker.
The proposed
rule is set to be published in the Federal Register on Dec. 4 and the public
will have 60 days to comment.
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