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Flight Data Monitoring

FDM software for aircraft operators. Flights processed in minutes.
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40+ aircraft types across airline, business and rotary fleets
100+ operators have run their FDM programmes on AeroSight
40,000 flights processed a month
1.5M+ flights processed since 2016

Flight Data Monitoring, Anywhere, Anytime: Flights processed in minutes

AeroSight FDM is customizable and time saving flight data monitoring software, built around your operations and company procedures. It turns a complete flight into screened, reviewable events in minutes: files arrive, process and screen automatically, and your team follows each step on screen. Whether you operate a Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) programme or a Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA) program, the handling is ours and the decisions stay yours.

  • Landing roll – with a wireless QAR the data is sent when the aircraft is on the landing roll; otherwise upload the FDR or QAR file yourself
  • Automatic processing – recorder formats decoded and normalized, every parameter checked and flight legs detected
  • Automatic screening – exceedance detection and multi-level risk identification
  • Reviewable events – on the analyst's desk, in context, minutes after the flight
The AeroSight FDM v2 dashboard on a laptop: legs and events waiting for review, what needs a decision, and the processing pipeline

What is flight data monitoring?

Flight data monitoring (FDM) is the routine analysis of the digital flight data your aircraft already record, used to identify operational hazards, assess safety risks and evaluate the effectiveness of safety actions undertaken. The aim of FDM is to analyze line operations and adherence to standard operating procedures.

You will also see it called flight data analysis (FDA) – the wording ICAO Annex 6 and IATA's IOSA standards use, where EU regulations refer to flight data monitoring (FDM) and the FAA framework to flight operations quality assurance (FOQA). Depending on the aircraft's maximum take-off weight (MTOW), an FDM programme is mandatory or voluntary for the operator; the thresholds are on our FDM and FOQA regulatory requirements page.

Whether you operate one aircraft or a hundred, the work is the same: get the data off the aircraft, turn it into readouts and events, validate what was found, and address necessary actions. AeroSight takes on the data handling, so your efforts can be focused on decision-making.

How it works

Every flight arrives already in context, with no manual lookups: departure and arrival METAR weather pinned to each leg, current AIRAC procedures behind every flight, and the exact airport and runway end resolved for you. So your events read against what the crew was actually flying.

AeroSight FDM delivers readouts, statistics and trends to your safety department within minutes after upload. As a key component of your Safety Management System (SMS), it supports both FDM and FOQA requirements across EASA, FAA and ICAO frameworks, and accepted events can be delivered straight into your SMS reporting tool.

For routine FDM, the data usually comes from a quick access recorder (QAR): a recorder that is not crash-protected, fitted so the data can be collected easily and often, typically on a removable memory card or by wireless download. The flight data recorder (FDR) is one of the crash-protected “black boxes” and its data is primarily for accident investigation, though it can also be read out for FDM, for example when no QAR is fitted. AeroSight works with both: upload the raw file from either recorder and the same automated process detects the flight legs and runs event detection.

Digital flight data downloaded from the aircraft is analyzed to determine if deviations from aircraft flight manual (AFM) limits or standard operating procedures (SOPs) have occurred. Detection thresholds are set by you, not by a ticket: your Event Definition Sheet (EDS) lives in the platform, with thresholds and confirmation durations per severity, set per aircraft and, where it matters, per airport and runway. Every change can be signed off by a second person before it takes effect, and is fully versioned and exportable as the Excel sheet you use today.

Exceedance events detected on one leg in AeroSight FDM v2, shown on a desktop monitor, each with its severity, flight phase, duration and exceedance
Airliner parked in a maintenance hangar
Airliner parked in a maintenance hangar

What you get

Processed in minutes. A complete flight, from recorder file to reviewable safety events, with legs detected and parameters in engineering units.
Every flight your fleet flies. Historical flight tracking on an interactive map, the optional Live Fleet Monitoring module, and every flight still missing its data flagged.
Weather and navigation, built in. METAR on every leg, current AIRAC procedures and automatic airport and runway detection.
Defined by you, not by a ticket. Your Event Definition Sheet (EDS), live, and every change can be signed off by a second person.
Aligned to EASA EOFDM. Every event mapped to the European safety framework your auditors expect, so findings roll straight into your reporting.
Review every flight in 3D. One click from an event to the exact second it happened, with cockpit indications and a multi-parameter flight trace alongside.
Detailed flight reports. Readout, exceedance, data-quality and parameter-check reports for every flight.
Trends and statistics at a glance. Programme KPIs aligned to EASA EOFDM WG-C, top critical and major events, and events per flight phase.
Custom and scheduled reports. A builder so your safety team runs its own reports, and any report scheduled to your preference.
Nothing important waits for a login. Alerts in the app, by email and in the browser, and accepted events delivered into your SMS reporting tool.
Secure access. Single sign-on and roles you control yourself, matching the named access your information security policy requires.
Qualified safety experts on your side. Flight data analysis specialists with more than 20 years of experience, qualified pilots and safety experts.
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The AeroSight FDM v2 safety overview on a desktop monitor: operations KPIs, programme KPIs aligned to EASA EOFDM, top critical and major events, and events per flight phase

Technology

AeroSight FDM runs on Microsoft Azure and is reached through a browser, so you need no additional IT infrastructure and no system maintenance of your own. AeroSight is certified to ISO 27001:2022 for information security and to ISO 9001:2015 for quality management, and both certificates can be verified independently on IAF CertSearch.

  • Fast, secure processing, storage and retrieval for all your FDM data
  • No additional IT infrastructure to buy and no system maintenance to run
  • Browser-based access from any device, with no software to install
  • Customizable user roles and privileges
  • Your flight data is retained for five years, including after your subscription ends
  • Your data stays yours: full export in open formats, at any time
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