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Aviation SMS Software That Connects Safety Reports to Flight Data
How Sky Analyst ASR and Sky Analyst FDM work together in a high-functioning Safety Management System A pilot files an air safety report after an unstable approach. The narrative says the aircraft was "a little high and fast inside 1,000 feet." Somewhere else in the...
5 Ways Our Customers Use FDM to Reduce Runway Excursion Risk
Runway excursions are back on the radar In the first week of September 2026, a Part 135 Citation XLS overran a 5,960 ft runway at Porterville, California, and a Boeing 767 freighter ran off the end of Miami's Runway 30, crossing a perimeter road and killing five...
5 Questions to Ask Your FDM Vendor Before Signing
Most flight data monitoring contracts get signed once and revisited only when something breaks. A support ticket that goes unanswered for weeks, a false-positive report that eats an afternoon, or a fleet expansion the system can't keep up with. By then, you're no...
EASA’s 2028 FDM Requirements. What Every Safety Manager Needs to know – And How to Be Ready
Runway excursions, unstable approaches, and take-off performance gaps. These aren't new risks, but as of 1 January 2028, how your Flight Data Monitoring programme addresses them will be subject to a new, more demanding standard. On 2 December 2025, EASA published ED...
Your FDM Program is Missing Half the Picture
Flight Data Monitoring has always excelled at answering what happened. But for safety teams and flight crews trying to understand why it happened — and more importantly, what it felt like in the moment — data plots and parameter traces have always left something to be...
The Long Landing Blind Spot
What our 2026 Global Data Sharing data reveals about the runway excursion risk your FDM program may be missing entirely. We found something we didn't expect When we published the 2026 GDS Report, the headline finding was already striking: across 104,000 landings, our...
How We Cut False Glideslope and Localizer Events by 85%
The signal was always there. The problem was knowing when to trust it. If you've spent any time reviewing ILS deviation events in an FDM program, you already know the frustration. Your analysts open the queue, and a significant portion of what's waiting for them isn't...
Geofencing in FDM: Turning Flight Data into Spatial Insight
This article accompanies our video that discusses how our new Geofencing feature in Sky Analyst FDM opens up new capabilities in Flight Data Monitoring. You want watch the video below.Modern aircraft operations take place in increasingly complex airspace environments...
Understanding FDM Approval: A Common Misconception
This article accompanies our video that discusses how FDM Software is not "approved" or "certified", but rather it is the entire FDM program that gets regulatory approval. You want watch the video below.In discussions around Flight Data Monitoring (FDM), one phrase...
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