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...

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

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 computer...

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

In Part 1 of our FOQA and Flight Data Monitoring series, we took a high level look at what a Flight Data Monitoring or FOQA program is. In Part 2, we went into a little more detail to look at what the recording options are for recovering flight data from an...

FOQA and Flight Data Monitoring Series Part 2: Flight Data Recorders

Introduction In Part 1 of this multi-part series, we took a high level look at the main parts of a Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) or Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) program. In this post, we take a more in depth look at Step 1 of how the process works:...