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5 Ways Our Customers Use FDM to Reduce Runway Excursion Risk

by Scaled Analytics | 2026-09-25 | CFOQA, FDM, Flight Data Monitoring, Flight Safety, FOQA | 0 Comments

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

by Scaled Analytics | 2026-08-13 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

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

by Dion Bozec | 2026-06-10 | CFOQA, FDM, Flight Data Monitoring, FOQA, SMS | 0 Comments

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...

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.