AFTI/F-16 in flight at Edwards AFB About
AFTI/F-16 in flight at Edwards AFB

Why Flight Data Specialists?


Experience
  • 26 years analyzing flight data
    • Military and commercial
    • Safety, operating efficiency, system development, maintenance and troubleshooting

Flight Data Specialists' logo (ones and zeroes)
Custom
  • Develop analyses for your fleets
  • Customer retains all intellectual property rights

Private
  • All analyses conducted with deidentified data
  • All communication is directed only to points of contact specified in contract
  • Identity of flight crew and airline kept confidential at all times

No Long-Term Commitment

Flexible
  • Use your data analysis system or work outside of it

Independent
  • In a position to merge deidentified data from multiple airlines
  • Not limited to one software vendor, airframe, engine type, etc.

Flight Data Specialists' logo (ones and zeroes)

Experience
  • 26 years analyzing flight data
    • Military and commercial
    • Safety, operating efficiency, system development, maintenance and troubleshooting

Custom
  • Develop analyses for your fleets
  • Customer retains all intellectual property rights

Private
  • All analyses conducted with deidentified data
  • All communication is directed only to points of contact specified in contract
  • Identity of flight crew and airline kept confidential at all times

No Long-Term Commitment

Flexible
  • Use your data analysis system or work outside of it

Independent
  • In a position to merge deidentified data from multiple airlines
  • Not limited to one software vendor, airframe, engine type, etc.


About the Founder: Doug W. Schaefer


Flight Data Specialists' founder, Doug Schaefer 26 years flight data analysis experience

Chief Architect of Austin Digital Data Analysis Library

Developed phase of flight, runway identification, trajectory generation, and automatic parameter validation algorithms for Austin Digital (ADI) Event Measurement System (EMS)

Principal Investigator of Multi-Airline Studies (including American, COPA, Delta, JetBlue, Lufthansa, Southwest, Swiss, United) in TCAS, CFIT, and Hard Landings

Created GE Aviation’s “Block Cost Model” for fuel-efficiency analysis

Created GE Aviation’s “JetLab” for adaptively modeling individual engines & airframes

Digital Flight Control System Development and Flight Test (AFTI/F-16, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edward AFB)

Developed first terrain-elevation, data-driven, terrain-following algorithm at General Dynamics / Fort Worth Division (now Lockheed Martin)

Flight Data Specialists' founder, Doug Schaefer

26 years flight data analysis experience

Chief Architect of Austin Digital Data Analysis Library

Developed phase of flight, runway identification, trajectory generation, and automatic parameter validation algorithms for Austin Digital (ADI) Event Measurement System (EMS)

Principal Investigator of Multi-Airline Studies (including American, COPA, Delta, JetBlue, Lufthansa, Southwest, Swiss, United) in TCAS, CFIT, and Hard Landings

Created GE Aviation’s “Block Cost Model” for fuel-efficiency analysis

Created GE Aviation’s “JetLab” for adaptively modeling individual engines & airframes

Digital Flight Control System Development and Flight Test (AFTI/F-16, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edward AFB)

Developed first terrain-elevation, data-driven, terrain-following algorithm at General Dynamics / Fort Worth Division (now Lockheed Martin)