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DATA ACQUISITION FLIGHT RECORDER Type D51615-202-XXX or D51615-
202-XXX-090 with CCU Type D51616-XXXX and CAM Type D51623-XXXX
Installation and Operating Manual with Illustrated Parts
List
Commercial in Confidence
PIM434-I
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INTRODUCTION
This document fulfils the requirement called for in the
introduction to ATA 100, by providing a description of the
Penny & Giles Aerospace Ltd, Data Acquisition Flight Recorder
(DAFR) Type D51615-202-XXX or the DAFR fitted with the 90-
Day beacon kit Type D51615-202-XXX-090 in Part 1, Cockpit
Control Unit (CCU) Type D51616-XXXX in Part 2 and Cockpit
Area Microphone Type D51623-XXXX or Type D51702-XX in
Part 3. This document includes the installation and operating
procedures required supporting the unit in service.
The DAFR is used to record selected aircraft parameters,
including audio, into Solid State Non-volatile Memory. The
recording is protected to survive stipulated crash conditions, to
enable the subsequent retrieval and decoding by suitable
replay equipment following an incident.
Facilities exist within the DAFR for aircraft in-situ data
retrieval. The DAFR retains, as a minimum, both the most
recent 25 hours of aircraft data and the most recent 120
minutes of four audio sources.
The DAFR is configurable to support different user applications
through a configuration table upload. Different customer
configurations are identified by dash number suffix from the
main D51615-202 part number. Each variant fulfils the
requirements of the minimum CVR/FDR as identified by
EUROCAE document ED112.
The DAFR is designed to operate without a Flight Data
Acquisition Unit (FDAU) instead it acquires data through
integral acquisition circuitry and dedicated aircraft bus
interfaces. For aircraft in situ retrieval, suitable Portable Replay
Equipment (PRE) is required.
With the limitations set out in DDP 3050, the DAFR Type
D51615-202-XXX and DDP3076 meets the requirements of
European Organization for Civil Aviation Electronics (EUROCAE)
specification ED-112 Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice
Recorder, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) specifications ETSO-
C123a/TSO 123b and ETSO-C124a/TSO 124b.