Precision Applications - New and Refurbished Voice Recording Equipment for the Aviation Industry

Precision Applications is a world-class manufacturer of recording systems for the air traffic community. The Veristore range of recorders has been developed specifically for this application and satisfies the requirements of a modern ATC environment. Voice, radar and screen display signals are captured, recorded, retrieved and replayed.

Precision Applications offers comprehensive support of its products, including technical and applications support, installation, commissioning and maintenance, all of which can be tailored to individual requirements.

Flight voice and data recorder for air traffic controllers

The Veristore voice and data recorder is readily scalable to individual customer needs and offers a future proof hardware based recording solution for the capture, storage, retrieval and playback of voice and data. Data is recorded using 16-bit digitisation with no compression or threshold triggering to ensure faithful reproduction with no degradation of quality. The software employed within the recorders is static code, which meets the requirements of IEC 61508 SIL4; this is not true of any Windows-based systems.

Data is input, written to disk and then read back from the disk and checked for integrity. This is a true read-after-write facility, as used on earlier generations of reel-to-reel tape recorders. Replay does not affect recording in any way and may be instigated at any time using the Veristore graphical user interface, which is based on the Windows .NET framework.

Data held in the rolling store may be automatically or manually archived to 2.5in mini drives if required for legal or any other reasons. In redundancy mode two Veristore recorders operate in parallel to provide total redundancy for each recorder and its interfaces, ensuring that no data is ever lost due to switchover of equipment. Uniquely, Precision Applications offer a 15-year support undertaking for the Veristore voice and data recorder.

Flight screen recorder

The Veristore screen recorder enables the ATC operator screens to be recorded at rates exceeding five frames per second, even with 2000px x 2000px screens. When these screen recordings are subsequently replayed in synchronism with the recorded voice signals and radar a true picture of any event may be obtained, which will allow detailed analysis of any situation.

Use of the latest technology means that there has to be no compromise between quality and storage capacity and active splitters allow the RGB, VGA or DVI feed to the screen to be split without any degradation of the ATC screen display.

A central management system is available which affords complete management and monitoring of all recorders in the system and enables replay from any of the recorders. A complete overview of the current status of any of the recorders and the status of each input channel on a selected recorder is readily available. Audio, radar and screen recordings from one or more channels of the connected recorders may be selected and replayed totally synchronously.

Complete replay scenarios may be saved on either the local or a remote PC or to a CD or DVD for subsequent replay. Audio recordings may also be saved in .wav format for replaying by standard media players. All system and alarm logs can be viewed and downloaded to a spreadsheet.

Compact flight voice and data recorder

The Veristore Fieldpro recorder is a compact version of the main Veristore recorder. It is robust and reliable and can be easily installed, commissioned and operated with minimum knowledge or training. It is ideal for smaller installations that only require a limited number of channels. Veristore Fieldpro is also ideal for use in emergency back-up locations for larger installations.