An aircraft monitoring system includes multiple wireless aircraft sensors (102a-d) and multiple meta sensors (104a-d) mounted on-board an aircraft (100). Each wireless aircraft sensor (102a-d) is configured to sense an aircraft parameter. Each meta sensor (104a-d) is associated with an aircraft sensor (102a-d) and is configured to determine a location or orientation on the aircraft (100) of the aircraft sensor (102a-d). A data acquisition system (106) mounted on-board the aircraft (100) and connected to the multiple aircraft sensors (102a-d) and the multiple meta sensors (104a-d) can perform aircraft monitoring operations based on the sensed aircraft parameters and on a location or orientation of the aircraft sensors (102a-d).
