seafarer1939 said:
I have no idea about aircraft black boxes etc or indeed anything about aircraft in general but it struck me with the question!what is the reason why black boxes are not fitted with a flotation device that triggers on water contact to bring it to the surface?
There must be a good reason but I'd like to know,if weight is a problem then a small marker bouy could be fitted to eject on impact.
Top minds have an answer why not but I'd like to know the reason.
Problem is now the wife is demanding a coach trip abroad to Spain and won't fly.How gross is that?a coach trip all that way.
Hope they get it sorted soon
The black box, would find it difficult to remove itself from within the fuselage, make its way fwrd, and exit the plane
As for a coach trip abroad, I went years ago with a major company, a convoy of four coaches
One drove up and down the promenade at Dover for four hours whilst a mobile mechanic tried to fix the gears it could either start from standing and stay in first three gears, or only have the top gears
Eventually it was left with just the top gears, so could not move off
another coach pushed it off the ferry and when at speed into gear and had to stay there all the way to ITALY, Could not stop for comfort breaks
Another of the group drove into a filling station in Italy to top up, the coach was the high line type the filling station was for cars, so he removed the top deck on entry and many people hurt
Our coach did not know the give way rules on the Italian motorway, and ended up with a van wedged in the side
The other coach made it all the way without any bother but managed to roll itself on the French motorway at 0400 going like made for the 0600 ferry
Not bad for four coaches on a two week holiday
The company now long gone was Redcrest holidays
I still do coach holidays, just back off one recently, and even more recently just back of a cruise, and flew to Venice via amsterdam and Edinburgh
If your times up it is up, even if you walk (THOUGH I do not wish to be on Billy Smith the pilots flight when his time is up
Jack McH