>This would be nothing for an airplane - $0.40 per hour? Why don't they do this already?
They would likely receive pushback from private jets that don't want all of their flight path transmitted back to RR.
They would likely receive pushback from private jets that don't want all of their flight path transmitted back to RR.
Make a law that the owner has to preserve the data for one week, but doesn't have to provide it to anyone.
And doesn't the US military track every overland flight anyway?
But it's even easier than that: Just make all US owned airlines require it, and any flight landing in the US. Phase it in, etc, to give time to upgrade, but it's certainly possible.
(Of course, it is a business, rather than branch of a government, and not the only manufacturer of jet engines).