No, he's talking about "evidence-collecting computers in the cockpit". I know that because that's a quote from the article. You can tell that because I used "quote marks".
He also says that there should be a permanent data link to ground. At which point you say (paraphrased), "there is one, except there isn't".
> No, he's talking about "evidence-collecting computers in the cockpit"
No, he's mentioning them. He's not talking about them. You could know by having read the article and noted he says nothing about them outside of the subtitle.
> At which point you say (paraphrased), "there is one, except there isn't".
The actual paraphrase would be "there is one except physics". There is a link, it can't magick reliability which does not exist when the computer is a flaming ball of debris in a storm. His proposition boils down to "magick up a reliable connection and send a subset of the blackbox data over it" (note the part where changing anything to "evidence-collecting computers" figures nowhere in the proposal?)
> No, he's mentioning them. He's not talking about them.
Yes he is, in the part I quoted. That's the part I'm talking about, which is why it's the part I quoted. Learn what the word "context" means. It's the part that the comment I was replying to quoted. Try and keep up.
> The actual paraphrase would be "there is one except physics".
Use the existing wifi connection to send additional information that at least would give you the location of the plane to the nearest kilometer. There are no laws of physics that prevent this.
The fuck are you talking about, planes don't have wifi connections. Do you think they've got a a wifi antenna outside connecting to an AP on land?
> to send additional information that at least would give you the location of the plane to the nearest kilometer.
That already trivially fits in the ACARS, and is completely useless since it's available from radars in the first place, until radar and data links become unavailable.
He also says that there should be a permanent data link to ground. At which point you say (paraphrased), "there is one, except there isn't".