Runway Overruns

(Note: This article was originally published on November 17, 2022). The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) released its annual safety watchlist late last month. If you want to see the full list, I’ve included a link here: Watchlist 2022. The TSB, like...

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...

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...

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

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...