Context
Flight data monitoring (FDM) is the systematic, pro-active use of digital flight data from routine operations to improve aviation safety within an intrinsically non-punitive and just safety culture.
This course outlines good practice relating to first establishing and then obtaining worthwhile safety benefits from an operator’s FDM programme.
Training items
- Objective of an operator’s FDM system.
- Description of a typical FDM system.
- FDM within a safety management system.
- Mandatory occurrence reporting and FDM.
- FDM technologies.
- Planning and introduction of FDM.
- Organisation and control of FDM information.
- Interpretation and use of FDM information.
- FDM in small fleets and business aviation.
- Technical legislation & maintenance requirements.
- Helicopter flight data monitoring (HFDM) requirements.
Training objectives
- Describing the key elements of an FDM programme and appraising the security and anonymity safeguards of a given FDM programme.
- Proposing and defending an FDM regime for application in an air operator.
Administration
- Duration: 4 days.
- Deliverables: All participants will obtain a certificate of attendance.
Perspective participants
- Current and perspective flight data analysts.
- Flight operations/pilot representatives.
Prerequisites
No specific prior knowledge is required to attend this training.