Comments on: “Cloud” computing?

By: Alisdair McKenzie

Alisdair McKenzie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:37:55 +0000

Interesting detail on the weather in the area at the time here; http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/.

For major airlines at least there is already stream of data from a variety of sensors being relayed from the plane to the engineering base in more or less realtime.
It would be relatively easy to mandate for key parameters to be mirrored to secure storage for use in the event of an adverse event.

There is a safety/QC culture in several disciplines eg airlines, medicine etc whereby adverse events and near misses are analysed on a no-blame basis (in the first instance)to ensure faulty practice is identified and any lessons have a chance to be learnt. It would be useful to establish a similar discipline in Information Security!
Ezekial

By: Perrin

Perrin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:21:39 +0000

I’ve seen this subject come up before when an aircraft has gone down and there are problems finding or recovering the CVR/FDRs. Google around, you will find many discussions about it. Here’s a good example: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/244248/

I suspect it will happen eventually though.

By: Robin Capper

Robin Capper — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:48:53 +0000

You’d have to have both remoate and local otherwise the whole system is depencdent on the transmitter. I wonder if getting near continuous data from all the aircraft flying is viable esp for long haul oceanic flights.