Enhanced method to troubleshoot aircraft electric power generating system fault events

A fault reporting system, comprising:

• a memory device comprising a circular buffer;
• and
• one or more processors configured to continuously capture status signals associated with an electric power generating system of an aircraft and store the status signals to the circular buffer;
• wherein the one or more processors are configured to, in response to detecting a fault event associated with the electric power generating system, store pre-fault snapshot data and fault snapshot data associated with the fault event to the memory device, wherein:
• the pre-fault snapshot data comprises a first portion of the stored status signals corresponding to a temporal period prior to a time point associated with occurrence of the fault event;
• and
• the fault snapshot data comprises a second portion of the stored status signals corresponding to the time point associated with occurrence of the fault event,
• wherein the fault reporting system is configured to set the temporal period based on a fault code corresponding to the fault event.

A method comprising:

• continuously capturing, by one or more processors, status signals associated with an electric power generating system of an aircraft and storing the status signals to a circular buffer;
• and
• in response to detecting a fault event associated with the electric power generating system;
• setting a temporal period with respect to storing pre-fault snapshot data associated with the fault event, based on a type of the fault event;
• and
• storing the pre-fault snapshot data associated with the fault event and fault snapshot data associated with the fault event to a memory device,
• wherein:
• the pre-fault snapshot data comprises a first portion of the stored status signals corresponding to the temporal period, and the temporal period is prior to a time point associated with occurrence of the fault event;
• and
• the fault snapshot data comprises a second portion of the stored status signals corresponding to the time point associated with occurrence of the fault event.