there is no reason with storage as cheap as it is now not to have longer recording times.
I am surprised that Boeing has not done this as a standard option seeing as they have to do it in the EU anyway.
But unfortunately Boeing is no longer an engineering driven company.
The cockpit? What is it?
It’s a room in the front of the plane with the pilots. But that’s not important now?
Longer recording times should not be an issue - nor should it have been “overwritten” immediately after it landed after the incident.
We have all these agencies regulating everything and nobody paying attention to anything.
There is a reason... just not a good one.
Boeing (or whatever Boeing subcontractor) has a piece of paper that says they get paid if they deliver a voice recorder with a two hour memory window.
They also paid for a quantity of two hour voice recorder memory chips to be made and pass through certification for use in cockpit voice recorders and are now only good to be used for US deliveries, so why not use them up first?
Boeing does not manufacture the flight data recorders or the cockpit voice recorders. They are supplied by avionics companies are are manufactured to a set of standards set by the government.