FA5300 Modular Airborne Data Recorder / Acquisition System (MADRAS)

Product overview

The FA5300 provides a highly dependable and configurable high-speed recording and data storage. It provides operators with the ability to customize data acquisition and inputs/outputs specific to each individual aircraft. It also has optional voice recording capability.

Offering 2 hours of audio recorders and 25 hours of flight date recording, the FA5300 provides greater than 25,000 MTBF, reducing operational costs and repairs to a minimum. The MADRAS family provides operators with the ability to quickly download and analyze flight data for safety and preventative maintenance investigations, enabling operators to analyze Flight Data Monitoring (FDM)/ Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) supporting airlines Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).

• Customize data acquisition for each aircraft
• A single LRU provides flight data acquisition, data recording and optional voice recording
  

Designed for

• Commercial and experimental aircraft needing flexible data acquisition
• Military rotorcraft and fixed-wing platforms requiring modular, configurable recorders
• Research aircraft and testbeds capturing high volumes of system and flight data
• Operators retrofitting existing avionics with scalable recording solutions

Why choose FA5300?

The FA5300 MADRAS system stands out due to its:

• Modular design for configurable data channels and system flexibility
• Crash-protected memory and high reliability for mission-critical applications
• Integration-ready architecture for existing aircraft avionics
• Support for analog, digital, and custom input types
• Optimized power consumption for weight- and energy-constrained platforms

Key features

• Designed for high-performance aircraft and specialized applications, FA5300 MADRAS provides high-speed recording or data and audio critical for reports and flight assessments
• The FA5300 records up to 2,048 words-per-second (wps) for a minimum of 25 hours, and has the capability to record four channels of high-quality audio for up to two hours. In addition, the FA5300 is able to record data over the ARINC 664 bus
• Control units, microphones, accelerometers and installation accessories are also available for aircraft in need of tailored recording solutions
• The MADRAS family provides operators with the ability to quickly download and analyze flight data for safety and preventative maintenance investigations. The units share the same common ground support equipment as the FA2100 Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR). This data helps accident investigators as well as provides thousands of parameters of data able for Flight Data Monitoring (FDM)/ Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) supporting airlines Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)