How can QAR or DFDR flight data enhance safety or reduce costs in your flight operations? Let Flight Data Specialists help.
We are an independent consulting group specializing in the creation of analyses customized to your flight operations.
In the end, it's about bringing people together safely and efficiently.
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Flight Data Specialists' founder, Doug Schaefer, has 26 years experience analyzing flight data. |
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| Principle Investigator of numerous safety studies with American, COPA, Delta, JetBlue, Lufthansa, Southwest, Swiss, and United Airlines. |
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| Performed flight test data analysis for the U.S. Air Force and NASA at the Dryden Flight Research Center. |
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| Created the Flight Safety Analytics Library and Fuel-Efficiency Models for Austin Digital, Inc. (now GE Aviation) |
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Flight Data Specialists' founder, Doug Schaefer, has 26 years
experience analyzing flight data.
Principle Investigator of numerous safety studies with American, COPA, Delta, JetBlue, Lufthansa, Southwest, Swiss, and United Airlines.
Performed flight test data analysis for the U.S. Air Force and NASA at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
Created the Flight Safety Analytics Library and Fuel-Efficiency Models for Austin
Digital, Inc. (now GE Aviation)
| Flight data analysis is about trust. Passengers trust you to keep them safe. Air crews trust you not to use flight data in a punitive way and to protect the data from unauthorized access.
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| To be successful, a flight data analysis program must earn the trust of the air crews. They must feel confident in sharing insights when contacted about flight data "events". The data never tells the full story. You need the air crews to be your partners. Only then can you successfully identify emerging safety threats and recommend mitigation strategies that are timely and effective.
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| If the analysis does not make sense to your pilots, they will ignore it. So the first step of data analysis is to listen to your pilots, and then you must keep them involved throughout the process.
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Flight data analysis is about trust. Passengers trust you to keep them safe. Air crews trust you not to use flight data in a punitive way and to protect the data from unauthorized access.
To be successful, a flight data analysis program must earn the trust of the air crews. They must feel confident in sharing insights when contacted about flight data "events". The data never tells the full story. You need the air crews to be your partners. Only then can you successfully identify emerging safety threats and recommend mitigation strategies that are timely and effective.
If the analysis does not make sense to your pilots, they will ignore it. So the first step of data analysis is to listen to your pilots, and then you must keep them involved throughout the process.
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Imagine that one day you have a team of flight data analysts in your office. They use a lot of buzz-words: “big data”, “machine learning”, “neural networks”, “disruptive technology”, “blockchain”. These guys sound smart, really smart; some would say “Enron” smart. Their “analytics” reveal that you can save $10 million dollars per year using idle reverse-thrust on landing.
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| Then imagine yourself as a passenger on a flight about to land, and the first officer gets on the intercom and asks, “We are about to use a technique that saves the airline $10 million a year. This is about $20 per flight. So if we do this technique, each of you 100 passengers will be refunded 20 cents. However, the risk of a landing overrun is more than doubled. How do you vote?”
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| The answer should be clear. You have the wrong flight data analysis team.
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| At Flight Data Specialists, the mission is simple: “Help the customer to bring people together safely and efficiently, but never sacrifice safety in the name of efficiency.” |
Imagine that one day you have a team of flight data analysts in your office. They use a lot of buzz-words: “big data”, “machine learning”, “neural networks”, “disruptive technology”, “blockchain”. These guys sound smart, really smart; some would say “Enron” smart. Their “analytics” reveal that you can save $10 million dollars per year using idle reverse-thrust on landing.
Then imagine yourself as a passenger on a flight about to land, and the first officer gets on the intercom and asks, “We are about to use a technique that saves the airline $10 million a year. This is about $20 per flight. So if we do this technique, each of you 100 passengers will be refunded 20 cents. However, the risk of a landing overrun increases about 5 fold. How do you vote?”
The answer should be clear. You have the wrong flight data analysis team.
At Flight Data Specialists, the mission is simple: “Help the customer to bring people together safely and efficiently, but never sacrifice safety in the name of efficiency.”