Teledyne Controls has announced that its Wireless GroundLink system (WGL) has been successfully installed and is now in service on Air Canada’s first delivered Boeing 777 aircraft, which started operations on April 5. Air Canada selected the Teledyne Controls Wireless GroundLink for its entire new 777 fleet. The WGL will help achieve a fully automated flight data recording and transmission strategy. The WGL can now record and wirelessly transfer flight data from any airport location worldwide, to the analysis center, automatically, without any physical media handling and human intervention. The data recorded during flight is compressed, encrypted and transmitted via cellular technology and secure Internet to Teledyne's Canadian data analysis center in Ottawa. There, it is processed and analyzed by a joint team of Teledyne and Air Canada specialists comprising pilots, computer scientists and data analysis experts.
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