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Use of Flight Data Monitoring (FDM)
Techniques To Benefit Operational
Efficiency
Peter Clapp
FDM Sales & Marketing
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Flight Data Monitoring (FDM)
 Also referred to as Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA), FDM
is the collection, storage, download and analysis of aircraft
parametric data for the purpose of highlighting safety issues, and to
effect improvements in operational procedures and training
 Requirements:
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Comprehensive data set
Data collected from all flights
Reliable download mechanisms
Sophisticated analysis tool suite
Can also be a window into operational efficiencies and costs
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Issues
 Data availability?
 Data urgency?
 Technical capability
 Realising benefits
 An end-to-end solution
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Data Availability
 The data-rich aircraft
 Availability of parameters – data bus architecture
 Routine collection of data
 The “connected” aircraft
 A429/Ethernet connectivity on-board
 The aircraft as a node on the IT network
Data Acquisition
Unit
 Automated a/c update service – on-board
databases
 Routine data download at end of flight
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Urgency Issues
 Corrective actions
 Urgent/Non-urgent
 Preventative actions – tend not to be
urgent
 Categories:
 Before landing
 Immediately after landing
 Later
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Wireless Groundlink™
Recorder
Slide 5
Technical Capability
 Downloading data – Wireless
connectivity
 100s of systems now flying
 Close to 100% data capture
 Average data latency measured in
minutes
 Data storage & mining
 Large (Terabyte) storage capacities at
affordable prices
 Parallel processing capacities
 Data mining tools
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Slide 6
Realising Benefits
 Recent FDM Case Studies
 Flap usage
 Brake temperature
 Fuel studies
 Do we have that risk?
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Flaps & Landing Distance
(34,615 Flights)
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2500
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1000
Flaps 3
Flaps Full
500
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Take-off Brake Temperature Case Study
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Slide 9
Insufficient Brake Cool Down Time
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Quantification of Fuel Cost/Saving
 Fuel savings from
single-engine taxi
operation.
 Fuel cost associated
with ‘Gate Wait’.
(Waiting for ground
marshall.)
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How Do We Compare? - TAM Flight 3054
Preliminary Causes:
 Wet runway
 Deactivated #2 T/R
 Failure to retard #2
** Study has revealed a small but tangible risk! **
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Slide 12
An end-to-end Solution
 Use of operational data is only part of the wider
solution
 But there are solutions available today that can
facilitate better decision making based on actual
system performance data
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Slide 13
Use of Flight Data Monitoring (FDM)
Techniques To Benefit Operational
Efficiency
Peter Clapp
FDM Sales & Marketing
PROPRIETARY LEGEND: THIS IS CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION OF TELEDYNE CONTROLS AND MAY NOT BE USED OR DISCLOSED BY THE RECIPIENT WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF
TELEDYNE CONTROLS AND THEN ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH SPECIFIC WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS OF TELEDYNE CONTROLS. BY RECEIPT HEREOF, IN ADDITION TO ANY OBLIGATION THE RECIPIENT HAS UNDER ANY
CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT WITH TELEDYNE CONTROLS, NEITHER RECIPIENT NOR ITS AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES OR EMPLOYEES WILL COPY, REPRODUCE OR DISTRIBUTE THIS INFORMATION, IN WHOLE OR IN
PART, AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF TELEDYNE CONTROLS AND THAT IT WILL KEEP CONFIDENTIAL ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN.