Fault tolerant aviation data tracker design

When a plane crash occurs, the black box is lost and teams are dispatched at a considerable cost to find it. In the flight-tracker project, the feasibility of transmitting data to ground servers in real time is investigated. There is a great need for tracking flight data in real-time. There are obvious advantages in finding the data instantly after a plane crash instead of waiting for several days until the black box is found. Earlier, this idea has been highlighted in the literature but no software scheme has been presented for its implementation. The flight tracker project includes a distributed handshaking and data transmission protocol and header formats for communication between plane and ground servers. A set of algorithms is developed to packetize the flight data, transmit it to the ground to an array of servers and integrate the transmitted data to recover the flight information. We hope this work will contribute towards saving human lives and improving the safety and reliability of aircrafts.