Has it occurred to the FAA that all aircraft should be in constant communication with the network and report status periodically?

I'm thinking of the Malaysian Airways disappearance, where a jet flew towards the South Pole for 7 hours before it crashed. The pilot turned off the transponder and all communications. Only the low level hardware communication pings allowed us to know it was even alive.

Every 10 seconds, the aircraft should report very basic parameters like position, altitude, speed, heading, engine power, and fuel. You can put all that into a single IP packet.

Surely this must have occurred to someone? Are the airlines resisting it?

NOTE: I have been ordered to explain why this question differs from the question, "why don't you live stream the cockpit communication to the tower?"

I'm talking about a coninuous once-per-10-second ping of a single packet of hardware status data to a central tracking database. My question had nothing at all to do with anything happening in the cockpit, including the cockpit voice recorder.

Ok? Can I ask my question now?

Has it occurred to the FAA that all aircraft should be in constant communication with the network and report status periodically?

I'm thinking of the Malaysian Airways disappearance, where a jet flew towards the South Pole for 7 hours before it crashed. The pilot turned off the transponder and all communications. Only the low level hardware communication pings allowed us to know it was even alive.

Every 10 seconds, the aircraft should report very basic parameters like position, altitude, speed, heading, engine power, and fuel. You can put all that into a single IP packet.

Surely this must have occurred to someone? Are the airlines resistin

I'm talking about a coninuous once-per-10-second ping of a single packet of hardware status data to a central tracking database. My question had nothing at all to do with anything happening in the cockpit, including the cockpit voice recorder.

Has it occurred to the FAA that all aircraft should be in constant communication with the network and report status periodically?

I'm thinking of the Malaysian Airways disappearance, where a jet flew towards the South Pole for 7 hours before it crashed. The pilot turned off the transponder and all communications. Only the low level hardware communication pings allowed us to know it was even alive.

Every 10 seconds, the aircraft should report very basic parameters like position, altitude, speed, heading, engine power, and fuel. You can put all that into a single IP packet.

Surely this must have occurred to someone? Are the airlines resisting it?

Has it occurred to the FAA that all aircraft should be in constant communication with the network and report status periodically?

I'm thinking of the Malaysian Airways disappearance, where a jet flew towards the South Pole for 7 hours before it crashed. The pilot turned off the transponder and all communications. Only the low level hardware communication pings allowed us to know it was even alive.

Every 10 seconds, the aircraft should report very basic parameters like position, altitude, speed, heading, engine power, and fuel. You can put all that into a single IP packet.

Surely this must have occurred to someone? Are the airlines resisting it?

NOTE: I have been ordered to explain why this question differs from the question, "why don't you live stream the cockpit communication to the tower?"

I'm talking about a coninuous once-per-10-second ping of a single packet of hardware status data to a central tracking database. My question had nothing at all to do with anything happening in the cockpit, including the cockpit voice recorder.

Ok? Can I ask my question now?