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Automated Operations and Safety Data Collection and Usage in Contemporary Flight Operations Quality Audit Programs
Flight Operations Quality Audit (FOQA) programs are becoming more common to airlines of today. Flight data recording devices modified for repeated and daily data readouts have been dem-onstrating their unquestionable advantages in FOQA programmes. They demonstrate the interest of airlines, that use them, to transport people, cargo and mail in safe and efficient way. The paper will present general FOQA structure, historical developments in this field together with common obstacles when introducing FOQA to an airline. It also brings the latest data and understanding of benefits that FOQA has on airlines operation with potential applications of similar concepts to other means of transportation as well
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Different Automation Concepts in Civil Aircraft Cockpits of Today and Their Influence on Airline Flight Operations
Although there are different aircraft manufecturers and hence different practical solutions, there is one bottom line in automation. In aviation automation is only complement to humans. It is not present to challenge the pilot's role and responsibility. The use of new technologies and implementation of new functionality are dictated only by: significant safety benefits, obvious operational advantages, and clear response to the pilot's needs and operational factors influencing his functioning. The paper will discuss different approaches to automation related to flight operations in aviations. The paper intends to demonstrate how different manufacturers' approaches follows quite similar ideas in different automated system designs. The paper does not intend to give any final say when choosing one concept or the other. That is the matter of different circumstances requiring more justifying space and different criteria than the pure scientific one
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The Example of Laptop Based Performance Data Generating and Optimisation in Contemporary Commercial Aircraft Operations
Airframe and engine combination gives equal potential to every operator with such a hardware combination. Operator's way of utilization makes its use to the maximum or less. Data related to aircraft performance is one of the basic elements in daily aircraft operations and optimal utiliza-tion of airframe and engine combination in real life environment. New technological solutions and systems affected performance data calculation. Today's laptop computer technology has already boarded the flight deck together with pilots. This paper is to present possible structure and proposed application of one of the system together with envisaged effects of its use in real life commercial aircraft operations. It will present the over-view of the system with considerations taken into account when designing and developing it; it's potentials and advantages compared to paper based performance data calculation and optimiza-tion: and the most important how it is understood as a tool in very demanding, unpredictable air-line operations of today
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Flight Operations and Engineering Documentation Managing and Distribution Supported by Intelligent Transport Systems
Aviation as a multitude of activities is meant to satisfy needs of its customers to overcome distance and time between any departure and arrival point in the world. Airlines and other aircraft operators (governments, armed forces, general aviation, and business aviation) differ in their structure depending on their size and services they provide. Some departments are to be found in larger airlines only. However, core departments, to every airline or aircraft operator, are flight operations department and engineering department. Sophistication and the size of these departments depend on the size of the system they are incorporated in. Business logistics of an airline consist of numerous distinctive activities and functions. These activities have to be planned and completed in synchronisation. The paper presents an overview to intelligent systems for the support to these activities with particular stress on flight operations and maintenance functions in a medium sized airline. Authors show how the approach to documentation management, as a part of logistics in the production of transportation service, has evolved since the early 1990s when aviation has started to recognise the value of digital technical data. In light of this, authors analyse conceptual framework adopted by today's aircraft manufacturers towards their logistics activities supported by Internet as a new means of transferring data. The advent of new sophisticated pilot-machine interfaces and aircraft systems tends to increase the volume of the documentation describing these tools drastically. The paper communicates how operational documentation has to change to move towards a more easy and modern media. Intelligent systems that prove aviation entering a period where the "written book" is going to be complemented if not largely supplemented by the "electronic book" are presented from the early beginnings of digital data application to the most recent achievements