B787 Flight Recorder System

The Boeing B787 is equipped with two enhanced flight records from GE
Aviation. As shown in 3.7-1, both of them have more than 50 hours of flight
information and 2 hours of sound data, respectively. Installed in the first flight
cabin and tail, the EAFR of the machine head has a 10-minute independent
power supply, as The power required for the cockpit voice and video recorder is
continuously provided after the aircraft power failure, as shown in Figure 3.
The Boeing B787 uses full-duplex switched Ethernet (AFDX) as the avionics
subsystem. The backbone of the network communication, the transmission speed
is about 1000 times that of ARINC 429. However, existing FDR The data
encoding standard of 573/717 cannot correspond to the network architecture of
AFDX, so B787 is in the network of AFDX. The new ARINC 767 standard is
derived from the road architecture. Boeing 787's EAFR and memory
in memory The ARINC 647A specification of the flight recorder electronic
interpretation file (FRED) file format, enabling Interpretation of the engineering
parameters of the recorder can be more convenient.
In response to maintenance needs, the Boeing B787 will also record continuous
parameters generated by on-board maintenance computers. (Continuous
Parameter Logging, CPL) in a format that conforms to the ARINC 767 standard
AFDX is stored in the recorder together. The difference between CPL and EAFR
records is that CPL only records things.Trigger data, EAFR stores pre-scheduled
record data. Boeing 787's EAFR in the cockpit voice The storage has the same
four-track audio storage as the current CVR, and the cockpit area microphone is
analogous to the radio.The other three tracks contain wireless communication
voice records for the 787's own digital audio system through the AFDX network.
Road to EAFR storage
Care must be taken when downloading B787 flight data using GE Aviation's
proprietary ground equipment.EAFR is powered by dedicated cable and removed
from the aircraft through the RJ-45 network route from the PC side to IE and Ji
Computer connection in the recorder, default IP 172.274.10.30. For the data
"download" option In it, it provides three download modes:
(1) complete source download, distinguish fault data, voice data And flight
information;

(2) download 9 formats separately according to the data attributes, including

B787 IGS proprietary format ASCDB, FRED format, and voice data
has been divided into 4 tracks;

(3) downloaded by segment, divided into 6 types, Figure 4.

In addition to the "Maintenance" option,
 the function of deleting the original data is provided once deleted, the
original data will not be restored.
 After obtaining the FRED file, be sure to confirm the soft and hard version
of EAFR, wave The sound LSAP related serial number, the part number of
the EAFR before and after, and the part number of other related
components.

 The above key assets The information should be compared with the
relevant airworthiness record documents of the civil aviation industry.
The ARINC717 data stream is stored in FDR, which is different from the B787.
A350 can use today's city Most of the standard FDR on the surface continues to
use the virtual fast capture recorder function (VQAR), but the people Carriers
can also choose the optional Quick Access Recorder (QAR), which is shown in
Figure 5.The FDR used in the existing A350 model can record more than 25
hours of flight data, storage format A standard ARINC717 data stream of 1,024
characters per second (1,024 WPS) with a record parameter of approximately
3,400 Item, compared with 1,500 parameters of B737-800 with the same
1,024WPS standard and B777-300 1,600 parameters for the model and 2,096
parameters for the B787 with EAFR provide more System related information.
Figure 6 shows an example of the XML data for the A350 FDR. There are three
main parts: the header definition. 4 seconds raw material frame definition
(Subframe), and interpretation definition of all flight parameters (Parameter 717).
The header includes 6 fields: ARINC version, XML version, file creation date,
original file source, the sign is defined. The 4 second original data box definition
includes 5 fields: character length, total characters, and more per second. Less
characters, whether it is 4 seconds, a loop, and a synchronous character
definition. The flight parameter takes "airspeed" as an example, it needs Fill in
the relevant information in 12 fields, such as the record position is 661
characters; the original data use ARINC 717 The code is recorded in the 3rd to
12th bits; the data attribute is binary; the data conversion factor is 0.5.
3.1 New model discarding solution and analysis technology transfer results
In October 2015, Fei'an will implement a new logger system training and analytical
technology transfer training program.
painting. The project was sent to Taiwan by Plane Sciences Inc. (hereinafter referred to as
PSI) for four lecturers. The content includes Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 machine recorder
system architecture, the interpretation of the new recorder Analyze software training
programs.
The new Recorder Interpretation and Flight Analysis Software (FAS) was developed by PSI
and its software is four.
 Large module function: various FDR/QAR original data interpretation, flight data
analysis, flight path reconstruction and Flying animation. The core of FDR/QAR
original data interpretation is to support the flight recorder electronic decoding file.
 (FRED) decoding module; flight data analysis, built-in data list (List), chart
drawing(Trace), cockpit voice recorder (CVR) copy display; flight animation can
integrate CVR sound and Flying instruments and terrain.
FAS's FDR/QAR source data interpretation method, following the standard flight data
storage format, press FRED interprets the file to find the sync character, allowing the user to
select the data interval for interpretation, FAS It is very efficient with the Python
programming language. FAS supports a wide range of recorder formats, except for
traditional ARINC In addition to 573/717, L-3FDT/FDR, Honeywell DLU, EAFR
ARINC767, P&GMPFR/SSQAR, Teledyne WQAR, etc., operation picture detail 7. Also
supports CSV Format file. FAS's flight path reconstruction module is very special, at least
involving the magnetic declination model. Relevant results can be achieved by using Google
Earth and X-plane for flight path reproduction and flight animation. Play, main picture detail
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Display the FAS data processing flow, the user should first prepare the FDR
original capital, corresponding FRED file, CVR sound file, CVR copy file filled
in with the time system. Use FAS files The management function imports
relevant information, and FAS converts the original FDR/QAR file into work
according to the FRED file. Process parameters, data table columns and drawing
analysis based on engineering parameters. Calculate the results based on the
flight path, The local network connects X-plane and GoogleEarth for animation
simulation, and then sets the flight instrument according to requirements.
CVR sound and copy. Aircraft model, specific airport and environment can be
set in the X-plane simulation platform Special effects.