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Flight Data Monitoring Based Precursors Project: Part 1 — Runway Excursions
U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Safety Regulation Group. Report 2012/01. 28 pp. December 2012.
Flight data monitoring (FDM), known as flight operational quality assurance (FOQA) in some countries, is one of the pillars of modern aviation risk reduction. It first came to prominence as a key element of airlines’ growing analysis of routine flights in the 1990s. Today it is also part of the foundation of safety management systems.
The concept — although not necessarily the practice — of FDM is simple enough. It requires aircraft equipped to access and record selected parameters of flight data, which can then be downloaded via quick access recorders (QARs) or wireless real-time transmission. The data can be analyzed fro…
