Use Your Flight Data to Monitor Engine Health

(Note: This article was originally published on May 30, 2022). Aircraft engines are expensive. They are expensive to purchase and expensive to maintain. Aircraft operators and leasing companies are always looking for ways to reduce engine maintenance costs without...

What is a FRED File and why is it so Important?

(Note: This is an update to an article originally published on July 28, 2022) As I was going over the list of blogs we have written recently, I was somewhat surprised that we have not spent much time on the FRED file, or the parameter data map. It was surprising...

Flight Data Monitoring: Data De-Identification

One of the biggest and most frequent concerns that we hear from operators that are new to Flight Data Monitoring or FOQA programs is how we protect the identity of the crew. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, the real interesting information from a Flight Data...

FOQA and Flight Data Monitoring Series Part 1: Introduction to FOQA

Before you begin: For a short, lighthearted video providing an overview of Flight Data Monitoring, check out our video here.     About This Series This is the first in a series of posts about Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) or Flight Data...

The Top 5 FOQA/Flight Data Monitoring Myths

At Scaled Analytics, we have been working with flight data in general, and Flight Data Monitoring Programs in particular long enough to see a pattern in the questions we are routinely asked. Whether you operate an airline, business jet or helicopter and whether you...