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Data recorder

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A data recorder is a piece of equipment which records data, and may also be called a data logger.

Examples of data recorders are:

  • A flight data recorder (FDR), one of two types data recording system used to collect specific aircraft performance data.
  • A voyage data recorder (VDR), a data recording system designed to collect data from various sensors on board a ship.
  • The term may also be (less accurately) used to describe a cockpit voice recorder (CVR), the second type of data recording device found onboard aircraft.

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