One of the NTSB’s primary goals, as described in its 2016 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, is to “expand the use of recorders.” These include cockpit image recorders, and Outerlink Global Solutions (Booth 9337) offers its Iris system with a new digital camera to help fulfill this goal.
Iris monitors voice and up to 300 parameters, providing operators with real-time insight into in-flight performance and status. Features include global push-to-talk radio and immediate alerts and warnings with aircraft data transmitted every 10 seconds.
The Iris camera, which has a variable focus that allows it to accommodate any cockpit size, provides HD video at a 30-Hz frame rate per second. It can provide video synced with the five-channel voice recorder, flight data and detailed animation.
“We recognized the significant drawbacks to the current video recording options currently available,” said Jeff Warner, Outerlink sales director. “Our Iris system leaves no uncertainty to the NTSB investigators with the capability of multiple 1080p HD video cameras and audio synced with the most comprehensive flight data available.”