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Flight Data Monitoring

What is flight data monitoring?

Flight data monitoring (FDM) is the routine analysis of the digital flight data your aircraft already record, used to find operational hazards, measure safety margins and confirm that a corrective action has worked. It looks at ordinary line flights, not only the ones that went wrong, so it measures how your operation actually flies.

You will also see it called flight data analysis (FDA) – the wording ICAO Annex 6 and IATA's IOSA standards use, where EU rules say flight data monitoring and the FAA says FOQA. A programme is mandatory for aeroplanes above a defined take-off mass and voluntary below it; the thresholds are on our FDM and FOQA regulatory requirements page.

Whether you operate one aircraft or a hundred, the work is the same: get the data off the aircraft, turn it into readouts and events, validate what was found, and act on it. AeroSight takes on the data handling, so your effort goes into the decision.

Safety At Your Fingertips:Keep Your Flight Data Secure with Cloud-Based Monitoring

AeroSight FDM is an effective and highly customizable Flight Data Monitoring solution that analyzes 100% of the flight data you upload with minimal user interaction in an easy to use and efficient way. Whether you operate a Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) programme or a Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA) program, AeroSight delivers the automation and insight you need.

The platform handles time consuming and error prone tasks and allows you to focus on investigating hazards and increase flight safety in compliance with authority regulations and following the latest guidelines.

Fast and automatic readout and exceedance detection process
Detailed and interactive flight readout visualizations, traces and reports
Accurate statistics and safety trends with periodical safety reports
Intuitive web interface, secure user access and reliable data storage

Flight trace of airspeed, altitude and vertical acceleration with a GPWS warning marked, above a bar chart of detected events by flight phase and severity

How it works

When it comes to flight safety, there's nothing more valuable than quick representation of every moment during a flight, accurate statistics and actionable trending data.

AeroSight FDM provides aircraft operators with valuable safety insight that delivers detailed reporting, statistics and data representation directly to your safety department, within minutes of upload. As a key component of your Safety Management System (SMS), it supports both FDM and FOQA requirements across EASA, FAA and ICAO frameworks.

For routine FDM, the data usually comes from a quick access recorder (QAR): a recorder that is not crash-protected, fitted so the data can be collected easily and often, typically on a removable memory card or by wireless download. The flight data recorder (FDR) is one of the crash-protected “black boxes” and its data is primarily for accident investigation, though it can also be read out for FDM, for example when no QAR is fitted. AeroSight works with both: upload the raw file from either recorder and the same automated process detects the flight legs and runs event detection.

Digital flight data downloaded from the aircraft is analyzed to determine if deviations from structural aircraft limits or Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) have occurred. The events that are monitored constitute a dynamic set continuously evolving in order to best adapt to the company procedures in place and to help in the identification and measurement of safety risks.

Laptop showing an FDM event set with severity thresholds by flight phase, beside a tablet showing an AeroSight FDR readout report parameter check

What you get?

Web-based platform, that you can access from any device with no limitation on number of devices

Excellent support team of aviation experts

Just upload FDR/QAR raw file and fully automated process will detect all legs in it, extract all parameter values converted into engineering units and perform accurate event detection.

Dashboards with KPIs and interactive charts for fast overview of operational safety and trends. Easy way to drill down and look deeper into the flight data behind.

Data reliability based on data quality analysis and parameter check report.

Integrations with external OPS systems (like Leon Software) to bring pilot rosters in automatically for pilot performance monitoring.

Secure User Access with customizable user roles and privileges.

Rich instruments for detailed flight review - cockpit visualization, 3D flight path reconstruction, interactive color-coded trace and CSV file.

Flight acceptance - the reviewer could analyze all detected events with their correlated parameters and reject inappropriate events. After readout report is accepted it becomes part of statistics.

Periodical safety reports and advanced search in exceedance events and flight legs by different dimensions.

Engine related events and automatic data export for engine condition monitoring.

Discover safety trends and operation specific cases, using our experts advice.

Technology

AeroSight FDM runs on Microsoft Azure and is reached through a browser, so you need no additional IT infrastructure and no system maintenance of your own. AeroSight is certified to ISO 27001:2022 for information security and to ISO 9001:2015 for quality management, and both certificates can be verified independently on IAF CertSearch.

Fast, secure processing, storage and retrieval for all your FDM data
No additional IT infrastructure to buy and no system maintenance to run
Browser-based access from any device, with no software to install
Customizable user roles and privileges
Your flight data is retained for five years, including after your subscription ends
ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certification held by AeroSight, independently verifiable on IAF CertSearch

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