Research agency NASA Ames has developed an aviation performance measuring system (APMS) it claims can analyse information from flight data recorders for anomalies more thoroughly than any already-capable tools on the market, and is now licensing the model to Texas-based Sagem Avionics for production. NASA says its intention is to enable airlines that are running flight operations quality assurance (FOQA) programmes to make them more effective at identifying precursors to problems or even potential accidents. The APMS, says NASA, goes beyond detecting arbitrary user-defined operational exceedences as existing systems do, identifying clusters or series of defined event categories.
Source: Flight International