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The UN’s panel on aviation has announced that airplanes should now be fitted with autonomous distress tracking devices which allow them to transmit their location during emergencies.

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The UN’s panel on aviation has announced that airplanes should now be fitted with autonomous distress tracking devices which allow them to transmit their location during emergencies. (gizmodo.com) More...

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Dl8698
David Loh 1
I always wondered
1 is it at all possible to have the cockpit voice, gps position and airdata be continuously transmitted to ground station in real time?
2 or have the above triggered under some circumstances eg flight deviates significantly from flight plan route. Or if altitude reaches significantly unusual levels during cruise or deviates from the altitude set on the fmc selector by a certain amount

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