The rate of flight operations events — exceedances of predetermined parameters — for participants in Austin Digital’s corporate flight operational quality assurance (C-FOQA) program decreased in 2010, from 11.3 percent of the total flights in 2009 to 9.5 percent, a 15.9 percent drop. That rate was also lower than the five-year weighted average, 10.9, since the beginning of data collection in 2006. The program was created by Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) but is now administered by Austin Digital, with the data processed through the Austin Digital eFOQA event measurement system.
C-FOQA is designed to provide corporate flight departments with the advantages many airlines obtain from analogous programs. Flight data are recorded, downloaded from a quick access recorder and analyzed. The results are available to each operator for its own fleet, and publicly in an overall, de-identified form. Each operator also receives an annual report comparing its fleet to the aggregated fleet data…
