Leveraging Information to Support Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance

摘要

In recent years, a new generation of aircraft monitoring systems have been developed and are being implemented across numerous aircraft platforms with the intent to fully utilize all available data collected from individual aircraft. Both the civil as well as the military aircraft communities have come to the realization that remarkable benefits in terms of safety, operations, maintenance and training can be leveraged by designing a process that can extract, analyze, consolidate and single out information relevant to one or more of the many groups that oversee aircraft operations and support. A Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance (MFOQA) program was formed to take advantage of these opportunities setting as its principal goals to reduce the number of accidental aircraft losses while increasing operational readiness across the full range of operations. The present work describes the technical approach being developed for the Department of the Navy MFOQA demonstration program. The contributions of this approach are evaluated on the SH-60 MFOQA demonstration squadron (HSM-41) stationed at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island. Detailed examination of selected examples is included and overall results and advantages derived from the approach are summarized and discussed.