FDM Revealed

FDM programme goals, challenges and best practices

Goals

The key purpose of flight data monitoring is to improve aviation safety by proactive and non-punitive use of digital flight data from routine operations.

Effective FDM programme achieves this goal by:

identification of potential hazards in regular flight operations
detection of SOP violations and deviations from structural aircraft limits
objective traces of flight execution
equipment status monitoring
discovery of potentially degrading safety trends

Challenges

Currently the safety analysts have to manually process a lot of data with tight time schedules.

The aircraft operators are facing many challenges to keep with the highest standards in the field:

regular FDR downloads
short time between data download and readout
fast and reliable data analysis
shorten time for manual interpretation of processed data
reduce error in statistical analysis

Best Practices

With several aspects handled in appropriate way the aircraft operator can rely on respectable flight safety:

Set up appropriate FDR download period to meet the actual data accumulation and readout facility capacity.
Shorten idle time of the readout system and analysts involved by providing input data faster.
Perform automatic readout, analysis and event detection in order to reduce FDR data processing time.
Guarantee objective results by automating the time consuming and error prone statistical analysis tasks.
Maintain reliable and secured data storage - accommodate infrastructure to contain the raw and processed data for the required period of time with only authorized personnel access.

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