Patent ID: 7489992

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for remotely communicating and interfacing with an aircraft condition monitoring system (ACMS) on an aircraft, comprising: providing a storage card with a process that has processing power and wireless transmission functionality, the storage card including a wireless interface; plugging the storage card into the ACMS using a card interface, wherein the ACMS collects flight performance data and generates an ACMS report after one or more exclusive conditions are fulfilled, wherein the one or more exclusive conditions are selected from a group consisting of opening of cargo doors of the aircraft, a ground speed of the aircraft reaching zero, an engine fuel flow reaching zero, and closing of fuel valves of the aircraft; using the processor embedded in the storage card to detect whether the ACMS report is generated; after the one or more exclusive conditions are fulfilled and the ACMS report is generated, connecting the wireless interface to a ground-based network based on network attributes stored in a database on the storage card; and automatically and wirelessly transmitting the flight performance data to a ground station through a wireless network.