New Datalink Application for Aircraft Condition Monitoring Based on ACARS.

Airlines are paying more attention to monitoring its aircraft after AF447 crash and MH370 missing. Common communication and surveillance means to aircraft is analyzed. A new datalink application for monitoring aircraft condition based on ACARS (Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System) is proposed. It operates aircraft information processing, message envelope, data compression and information encoding orderly, periodically transmits ACARS message including flight data, aircraft system state, maintenance and fault information. It increases the information capacity through ACARS network indirectly, which helps airlines monitor and get more flight information from its aircraft in real-time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]