EUROCAE ED 112 Minimum Operating Performance Characteristics for Cross-Protected Airborne Recording Systems

EUROCAE ED 112 Minimum Operating Performance Characteristics for Cross-Protected Airborne Recording Systems

The EUROCAE ED 112 standard published by the European Civil Aviation Equipment Authority (EUROCAE) defines the minimum requirements to be met for all aircraft that must carry flight recorder equipment that records flight data. These recordings include flight data, audio cockpit recordings, images and data link digital messages. This standard applies to aircraft collision-proof recorders, ancillary equipment and their mounting on civil aircraft.

EUROCAE ED 112 Minimum Operating Performance Characteristics for Cross-Protected Airborne Recording Systems

Accident protection weather recorder systems offer a fully integrated solution and mainly include the following equipment:

  • cockpit sound
  • flight data record
  • Combination of aerial image recorder and data link recorder

These systems are lightweight and compact, fully integrated flight data recorder and data acquisition units. This system provides flight test setups for military aviation and helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft seeking a powerful system with minimum cost, minimum weight, and minimum size. Today, these systems feature advanced design capabilities for all types of data acquisition (data, audio, and video) with increased recording capacity.

Such equipment is designed to meet applicable environmental specifications for installation limits set forth in standard DO-160, environmental conditions and test procedures for airborne equipment, developed by the Radio Technical Commission for Aviation (RTCA).

Essentially, the environmental characteristics of flight recording systems are as follows:

  • Impact (3400 Gs, 6.5 ms, all axes)
  • Pin penetration (500 lb, 10 ft)
  • Static crush (5000 lb, 5 min, all axes)
  • Low temperature flame (260 degrees for 10 hours)
  • High temperature flame (1100 degrees for 60 minutes
  • Immersion in sea water (30 days)
  • Deep sea pressure (20.000 ft, 24 hours)
  • Liquid immersion (various liquids, 48 ​​hours)

Among the numerous test, measurement, analysis and evaluation studies that our organization provides for businesses in various sectors, with its trained and expert staff and advanced technological equipment, within the scope of the EUROCAE ED 112 standard, testing services for determining the minimum operating performance characteristics for cross-protected airborne recording systems are also available. gives.

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