Black box:

The appearance of the black box is not black, but striking orange, and there is a reflective logo on the surface, which is convenient for searching at night. Because the data recorded by the flight parameter recorder can only be interpreted and analyzed by special download equipment and playback software, and the data stored by the accident recorder is very critical and mysterious, in some accidents, the recorder will turn black after being burned, so people call the aircraft recorder "black box".

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Functional application:

According to the use of black boxes, they are vividly called "judges", "instructors" and "doctors".

The so-called judge. It is based on the purpose of flight accident investigation. After the accident, by retrieving the black box and decoding the analysis data, we can determine the real cause of the accident and avoid similar accidents from happening again.

The so-called instructor. It refers to the function of pilot monitoring, which corrects the bad driving habits of pilots and prevents accidents by analyzing the data of black boxes every day.

The so-called doctor It plays an important role in aircraft fault diagnosis and maintenance. Through the daily analysis of the black box data, we can monitor and predict the health status of the main components of the aircraft, check the hidden troubles and prevent the faults from developing into accidents.

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