Flight Data Monitoring Works – If You Use It

(Note: This article was originally published on January 19, 2022). I recently produced a report that illustrates how a Flight Data Monitoring program could have easily paid for itself by preventing a costly runway overrun. It is not a technical engineering report but...

FDM and FOQA Software: More Expensive does not Mean Better

(Note: This article was originally published on April 13, 2022). A common occurrence that we see here at Scaled Analytics is a Requests For Proposals (RFPs) from larger airlines. The typical scenario is that they have been using a legacy Flight Data Monitoring...

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: Why Don’t We Just Go Around?

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 with an effective Flight Data...

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...