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Beyond Safety: The Real ROI of Flight Data Monitoring

by Scaled Analytics | 2025-11-06 | Aircraft Maintenance, Article, FDM, Flight Data Monitoring, Technology | 0 Comments

When most operators think of Flight Data Monitoring (FDM), they think safety. And that’s fair — safety is the foundation. But the same data that helps identify operational risks can also uncover opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce wear, and lower maintenance...

Enhancing Safety Through Partnership: Sidestick Priority Event Development

by Scaled Analytics | 2025-10-27 | CFOQA, FDM, Flight Data Monitoring, Flight Safety, FOQA | 0 Comments

At Scaled Analytics, some of our most valuable innovations come directly from collaboration with our customers. The following example — shared with permission from one of our airline partners, who has chosen to remain anonymous — illustrates how Flight Data Monitoring...

How We Protect Pilot Privacy While Empowering Flight Data Insights

by Dion Bozec | 2025-08-11 | CFOQA, FDM, Flight Data Monitoring, Flight Safety, FOQA | 0 Comments

Balancing safety, efficiency, and trust. Without compromise. At Scaled Analytics, we believe that flight data should drive safety and efficiency—but never at the cost of pilot trust. That’s why we’ve built our software to ensure operators have full control,...

Flight Data Monitoring: Why Don’t We Just Go Around?

Oct 6, 2020 | Article, FDM, FOQA, Investigation

I was recently reviewing the NTSB’s Accident Report from the Cessna Citation crash involving Dale Earnhardt Jr. and my immediate reaction was, “Not again. Here's another catastrophic unstable approach that may have been prevented...

Flight Data Monitoring: Data De-Identification

Nov 18, 2019 | Article, FDM, Flight Data Recorder, FOQA

Learn about the safeguards that are in place to protect the identity of flight crew in the typical Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) or FOQA program.

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

Oct 23, 2019 | Article, FDM, FOQA, Technology

Part 1 of a multi-part series outlining some of the basics of the typical Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) or Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) program.

The Top 5 FOQA/Flight Data Monitoring Myths

Oct 22, 2019 | Article, FDM, FOQA, Technology

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...

FDM/FOQA Software vs. Service – What’s Best?

May 9, 2019 | Article, FDM, FOQA, Technology

Operators today have two main options for running a Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) or Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) program. They can choose to purchase software, install it on their own computer hardware and then operate the software themselves. This is...

Scaled Analytics Featured in Aviation News Journal

Jul 24, 2018 | Article, FDM, FOQA

Can Flight Data Monitoring Work for You? Analyzing or monitoring flight data is not a new concept, but it is surprising just how many misconceptions and myths there are regarding this remarkably important tool, especially now that modern technology has made it more...

FOQA and Flight Data Monitoring Series Part 4: Closing the Loop

Jun 23, 2018 | Article, FDM, Flight Data Recorder, FOQA, Technology, Uncategorized

Close the Flight Data Monitoring Loop Up until now in this Flight Data Monitoring/FOQA series, we have looked at more of the technical aspects of Flight Data monitoring systems. From the flight recorder hardware used to collect and transfer the data to the...

FOQA and Flight Data Monitoring Series Part 3: Analyzing the Data

Jun 23, 2018 | Article, FDM, Flight Data Recorder, FOQA, Technology

In Part 3 of our multi-part series on Flight Data Monitoring/FOQA, we look at how flight data is typically used for flight data analysis once it has been recovered from a flight recorder.