Product Overview
Multiple Configurations
The SENTRY comes in multiple configurations including FDR, CVR, and the combination CVFDR.
Superior Performance
The SENTRY Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorder (CVFDR) features impressive survivability in a unique footprint.
Digital and Analog Inputs
The SENTRY offers digital and analog interfaces for seamless integration into all aircraft types.
Modern Design and Architecture
The SENTRY's FPGA architecture provides a unique software-free environment reducing NRE costs when configuring.
Industry Leading SWaP
The SENTRY is an industry leader in SWaP optimizations enabling maximized power budgets.
For all Segments of Aviation
Ideal for all platforms including civil, military, fixed-wing, rotor-wing, and unmanned aviation with expansion capabilities.
Product Overview
Multiple Configurations
The SENTRY comes in multiple configurations including FDR, CVR, and the combination CVFDR.
Digital and Analog Inputs
The SENTRY offers digital and analog interfaces for seamless integration into all aircraft types.
Industry Leading SWaP
The SENTRY is an industry leader in SWaP optimizations enabling maximized power budgets.
Superior Performance
The SENTRY Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorder (CVFDR) features impressive survivability in a unique footprint.
Modern Design and Architecture
The SENTRY's FPGA architecture provides a unique software-free environment reducing NRE costs when configuring.
For all Segments of Aviation
Ideal for all platforms including civil, military, fixed-wing, rotor-wing, and unmanned aviation with expansion capabilities.
Key Features
The Sentry Cockpit Voice & Flight Data Recorder (CVFDR) was designed by combining the standard features of existing CVFDRs with a new approach to capturing and protecting flight data creating the foremost CVFDR of the future. Using a patent-pending innovative memory insulation technique Sentry offers small size, lower weight, and less power consumption than traditional CVFDRs in a modular and flexible architecture. The “software free” recorder allows for aircraft specific configurations as well as the addition of creative and useful expansion capabilities.
Available in titanium, Sentry meets or exceed all requirements of ED-112A as well as qualification to DO-160G environmental and power requirements. The rugged enclosure is ideal for airborne operational environments including commercial and military fixed-wing and rotary wing aircraft and can be mounted in any alttitude.
SENTRY includes a range of aircraft interfaces including:
- ARINC-717 and ARINC-429 (auto detection)
- Ethernet
- RS-422/485
- Analog and discrete sensor inputs
- Data Link recording
- Four high or low fidelity audio channels (configurable)
- Rotor speed input
Expansion of Sentry’s capabilities include the acquisition modules designed for the FDS Modular Acquisition Unit (MAU).
The modules convert Sentry into a Data Acquisition and Crash Recorder System and more.
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