Advanced
Cockpit Voice Data Analysis
CVA 301

Your first Quiz? With regard to sound detection, what is the difference between the Hebb method and Pattern Detection Formula?

This advanced course is definitely not for the average Analyst. Imagine being assigned to a CVR audio analysis task where noise completely overtakes intelligible audio, multiple simultaneous voices increases the difficulty of differentiating pilot from co-pilot, or location of critical sounds become almost impossible due to inherently low amplitude. If you are an Aircraft Accident Investigator, this is your course!

Prerequisite:

Become a CVR Subject Matter Expert

Qualify for Accident Teams

Accident teams must determine root case accurately and in a short amount of time. CVA 301 arms and prepares you to tackle today’s most challenging aircraft accident CVR audio tasks, anomalies, and obstalces using the science of artificial intel (ai)

Enhanced Accident Reporting

Generating a CVR transript can take weeks or even months, depending on the complexity of the accident. Using our ai tools, you’ll generate 95% of the transcript, and learn how to reduce textual errors while shortening the CVR transcript development time significantly

Advanced Investigtion

Graduate from our course with the ability to separate crew voice, generate flight path from CVR audio only (in case the FDR data is unusable), auto detect avionics and systems sounds, and remove noise & intereference which can severely impact the CVR audio decoding process

CVR audio frequency manipulation is very useful for filtering out undesired noise and interference!

Every sound is basically a summation of various frequencies. By altering frequency you can alter the pitch of the pilots voice, including the removal of harmonics or overtones which get in the away of understanding the pilot’s speech.

“I learnt a lot of new things, from the basics of audio to the depths of analysing what is going on in the cockpit…I am looking forward to seeing what the neural networks will bring us in the future.”

– Floris Gisolf
Investigator
Dutch Safety Board

 

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How do I modify my FDR to record more than 25 hours?

You can modify the program pins at the rear of the SSFDR to uptick your recording hours. For example, if you have a Honeywell PN 980-4700-XXX installed, you can alter the ‘ground/open’ discrete wiring at pin 17 & 18 of the SSFDR mating connector to increase your recording capacity.

How can determine the amount of hours recorded by my FDR?

The amount of recorded hours is dependent on a combination of your FDAU wps output and FDR maximum allowable recording speed. If there is a one to one relationship between the two units, i.e. – 64 wps FDAU with a 64 wps FDR, you will record the last 25 hours of flight data. This also applies to the case when the FDAU and FDR are both 128wps, 256wps, or even higher. If there is a mismatch between the FDAU and FDR speed, a small and simple calculation can be made to determine actual flight hour recording capacity. See the figure below for the various possibilities:

How can I determine the speed of my Flight Data Recording system in words per second (wps)?

There are basically 4 ways to determine your speed, with the 4th being a bit more involved. First, the speed should be listed or documented in chapter 31 of your aircraft Maintenance Manual and/or Wiring Diagram Manual. However there are times when for some reason, the required information cannot be found. If this is the case, as a second method, you may reference the CMM or technical specification for your Flight Data Acquisition Unit (FDAU). If you are still unable to find this information, you may contact the aircraft manufacturer for the wps or review your previous FDR download analysis reports. Please keep in mind, the OEM will only know the as-delivered configuration of your aircraft. If there were modifications to your aircraft post-delivery – manufacturer unaware of the changes – youll need to contact us for an analysis of your raw data. Using our software we can determine the wps of your system.

With regard to Flight Data Recorder Systems, what exactly does wps imply? I have noticed this abbreviation in our FDR documentation and in communications with the manufacturer several times:

WPS = words per second. A word (12-bits in length) contains binary data which represents a specific parameter value. Please see figure 1 below. Your FDR records in frames (4 second intervals) and each frame contains 4 sub frames (one sub frame = 1 second). With each second that goes by a specific quantity of words are recorded into memory. If you operate a 64 wps FDR system, you will record 64 12-bit words in one second. The higher the word capacity the more information you can record.

What is a Dataframe Layout (DFL)?

A DFL, also known by the name Logical Frame Layout (LFL), Dataframe Interface Control & Requirements Document, and many other names depending on the manufacturer, is a document which specifies the FDR, QAR, or DAR Parameter Word (location), Recording Speed, Sampling Rate, Bits, and Conversion formulae for your recording system.  

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