Data Systems Telemetry and Accident Data Recorders

Descriptive Overview
This Facility provides for the development of systems for the analysis, recovery and reduction of flight test data from aircraft.

Characteristics of Facility

• Computer hardware and software development to provide integrated recovery, reduction and analysis facilities for flight test data from aircraft which use data streams that comply with the Inter-Range Interchange Group (IRIG) 106 Standards and are recorded on analogue tape recorders or members of the Josef Heim digital recorder family.
• Specialist hardware & software design, manufacture, installation and support of complete instrumentation systems.
• Networked and stand-alone computer based data reduction and analysis facilities.
• The cockpit visualisation system known as Icarus used for accident and incident investigations.
• Ground station for radio telemetry, providing for the reception, via modulated radio signals, of data from airborne aircraft and the presentation of that data to trials officers and pilot supervisors in real-time.
• Provision of Accident Data Recorder (ADR) replay suite for ground replay of ADRs and support to Boards of Inquiry (BOI).
• Expertise in recovery of aircraft and audio information recorded on ADRs and its presentation to accident investigation teams and BOI.
• Trials and ETPS telemetry facilities, trial photography (airborne and ground), photographic instrumentation, film/video recording and processing services.
• Photographic laboratory for processing colour motion picture film and wide format aerial reconnaissance film.
• Storage and retrieval of data derived from flight trials.
• Serviceability checks on ADR equipment and advice on related asset and obsolescence management