Aircraft Advanced Flight Tracking via Flight Data Streaming

Aircraft Advanced Flight Tracking via Flight Data Streaming

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Data transmission during flight is a critical component of the Flight Data Monitoring system. Data transmission is also part of the operator Safety Management System.

ICAO recommends to send various flight parameters to ground at least every 15 minutes. These flight parameters can be sent  from anywhere in the world, which increases flight safety.

Efficient and affordable solution

Many airlines, who tried to follow ICAO recommendations, have been choked by the communication cost.

FDT offers a robust, affordable and efficient solution allowing airlines to take full advantage of Flight Data Monitoring during flight.

The base of the system is to use the FDT Ultra QAR corresponding to your mandatory FDR-CVR. The Ultra QAR can be an FDT Combined Flight Data, Voice, and Video Recorder, as well as your already installed FDR-CVR solution. This unique UQAR Wi-Fi is equipped from FDT. UQAR allows you to manage complete automation of Flight Data Download to the central flight data server.

An airline can complete the FDT UQAR installation by the FDT SATCOM modem. The SATCOM modem can either be using an existing aircraft antenna or the FDT SATCOM Antenna.

The FDT Data plan offers you a flexible and affordable data plan to transfer many Flight Data Parameters during the flight. Typically, companies are sending around 10 to 30 critical parameters to take advantage of dynamic real-time analysis from the FDM on the ground. The derivative parameters de-multiply the key parameters. Then, the parameters go through various algorithms (which depend on the airline request for FDM system) to be produced as analytic data.

The FDT SATCOM Data Plan is using the Iridium® satellite network covering the entire world.

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Typical Data Transmission flow for airline operators

The complete flight data are always transmitted to ground data server by automatic download. At the time the aircraft arrives at its gate, the data is downloaded from the aircraft. The SATCOM transmits regularly a set of required parameters depending on the configuration.

Basic tasks solved by the systems are:

• Interaction with technical services during the flight. Interaction reduces the time of servicing the aircraft on the ground and preparing it for the next trip.
• Analysis, information and recommendations on the regimes for fuel efficiency. Done at any time, at any stage of the flight.
• Aircraft maintenance optimization.
• Flight optimization in real-time. Usage of engine power with consideration of current meteorological conditions, as well as aircraft-specific aerodynamic and statistical data.
• In case of an emergency, a system automatically starts to transfer a predefined set of flight data needed for analysis. CVR data and cockpit video are also a source of essential data.

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