In particular we will be focusing on Africa through our membership of the African Air Safety Council (AFRASCO). Throughout the last 12 months we have made regular visits to attend safety events and meet with airlines. We plan to continue building relationships in this region with the aim of increasing awareness of aviation safety issues, making air travel in Africa safer, and ultimately saving lives.

We have provided support to AFRASCO by sponsoring the Secretary General’s salary, travel and accommodation when he attends meetings in Africa and also by creating and hosting their website. This is key for such a widely dispersed safety community who find it difficult to justify the cost of attending regular meetings.

To visit this website, click the following link… www.afrasco.aero

This confirms that we are achieving our mission to combine expert knowledge of flight data, aviation safety, and information technology to make international air travel safer!

"David Barry is the new chief operating officer at Flight Data Services. The Fareham, UK-based company provides technologies that allow airlines to browse flight data over the internet and monitor their fuel use…."   See the full article here: http://beta.flightglobal.com/news/articles/working-week-david-barry-357007/

Since opening its doors for business in 2000, FDS has delivered tailored monitoring services to its global customers, setting up a U.S. business division in 2007 to support Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) requirements. Today, FDS monitors more than 800 aircraft worldwide. With well more than a million flights in its data archive, collected from more than 70 aircraft types, FDS is unique in providing benchmarking statistics across its customer base, benefiting both small and large fleet operators.

FDS also offers a consultancy service, designed to assist airlines in carrying out flight safety activities, providing everything from a simple gap audit to setting up a complete safety department.

With a premium, complete, and dedicated service that is accessible 24/7, FDS maintains the highest ratio of analysts per aircraft in the industry. The customer friendly analyst team includes professionals from many sectors of the industry—flight crew, navigation, engineering, dispatch, and air traffic control—offering specialized expertise and a full range of quality services.

Operators can choose from a full-service program that includes data transfer, data processing, and data validation or a hosted service, which is an ideal platform for operators that wish to maintain ownership of the data validation process.

The innovative Internet-based POLARIS program is an integrated, open-source solution that can be accessed from anywhere an Internet connection is available. There is no proprietary hardware or software to purchase,
learn, or maintain. POLARIS is a zerofootprint, cross platform solution that allows users to browse, investigate, and use statistics immediately upon set up.

Statistical reports can be exported to Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, and Adobe PDF documents. Interactive dashboards allow users to interact with their data and perform investigations into trends. Builtin modern visualization tools include interactive graphs, cockpit displays, and Google maps. A built-in technical support function is also available.

For air safety investigators, the value of POLARIS lies in its simplicity of use, cost effectiveness, and accessibility—whether the user is in the office or working in the field.

FDS is initiating an online POLARIS community to further facilitate and promote knowledge sharing within the industry. Air safety professionals are invited and encouraged to contribute. A place for like-minded professionals to provide input, the POLARIS community ensures that contributions will be made accessible to the aviation safety world.

ISASI membership promises to be very beneficial to Flight Data Services in building a community relationship with flight safety specialists to develop best practices for sharing flight data analysis algorithms and lessons learned from past investigations.

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For further information, please contact:
Lee Holloran
Marketing Executive
Tel: +44 (0)1329 223663
Fax: +44 (0)1329 223664
E-mail: lee.holloran@flightdataservices.com
Website: www.flightdataservices.com
Flight Data Services, Thackeray House, 189-199 West Street, Fareham, PO16 0EN, UK

Flightstar has been in business as the Fixed Base Operator (FBO) to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Willard Airport since December 1978 and is the only FBO in operation at the airport.

Employing over 120 people, Flightstar’s facilities encompass nearly half of the airport. Its corporate terminal facility and maintenance facilities are state of the art and comprise line operations, flight operations and maintenance and avionics operations. Its fleet consists of one Falcon 10, one Falcon 50, one Learjet 40XR, three Learjet 45XR’s, one Challenger 300 and one Global Express XRS, a King Air 200 and two King Air C-90A’s. Flightstar’s airline maintenance division is unique in FBO operations, with overnight maintenance on Embraer regional jets available 24/7.

Flight Data Services (FDS) provides a comprehensive range of Flight Data Monitoring (FDM), Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA), and safety solutions to commercial and private aircraft operators worldwide. Focusing on the advancement of aviation safety through the innovative use of flight data, FDS helps aircraft operators meet international regulatory requirements, maximise operational efficiency and minimise environmental impact. By combining expert knowledge of flight data, aviation safety, and information technology, FDS helps make air travel safer.

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For further information, please contact:

Lee Holloran
Marketing Executive

Tel: +44 (0)1329 223663
Fax: +44 (0)1329 223664
E-mail: lee.holloran@flightdataservices.com
Website: www.flightdataservices.com
Flight Data Services, 189-199 West Street, Fareham,  PO16 0EN, UK

Nick will focus on creating the best customer experience possible, through usability enhancements to ensure a friendly and intuitive interface. Nick’s appointment increases the company’s specialist IT team to nine.

“This role at FDS gives me the opportunity to apply my software engineering training and skill set”, Nick explained, “and I’m very much looking forward to working with FDS’s incredibly professional team and impressive client base.”

CEO Dave Jesse commented, “We are delighted to add Nick’s qualifications to our specialist POLARIS website development team. We have a very cohesive team here at FDS, and choose our staff very selectively. As well as having to demonstrate exceptional skills in software development, we look for people with the right attitude, who will enhance our working environment and, ultimately, the products and services we offer our clients. After several months of searching, we think we’ve found just that in Nick and are delighted to welcome him on board.”

POLARIS technology is based on innovative new SaaS (Software as a Service) technology, meaning simply that it is software deployed over the internet.  The secure, password protected website will enable customers to compare the number of flights analysed to the number of flights flown, view take-off and landing METAR weather reports, and utilise built-in modern visualisation tools including interactive graphs, cockpit displays and Google maps to view flights, airports and flight paths.

Flight Data Services provides a fully comprehensive range of flight data monitoring solutions to commercial and private aircraft operators worldwide. Focusing on the advancement of aviation safety through the innovative use of flight data, FDS helps aircraft operators maximise operational efficiency and minimise environmental impact. By combining expert knowledge of flight data, aviation safety, and information technology, FDS helps make air travel safer.

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For further information, please contact:

Lee Holloran
Marketing Executive

Tel: +44 (0)1329 223663
Fax: +44 (0)1329 223664
E-mail: lee.holloran@flightdataservices.com

This is the third business award won by the innovative aviation safety company. In 2007, FDS took home the National/International Trade 2007 award as well as the Business of the Year 2007 honour presented by the local Borough Council of Gosport.  

Flight Data Services, founded in 2000, now has offices in the USA and Dubai, in addition to its centre of excellence outside of Portsmouth in Fareham. The company exports 87 percent of its Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) services to 60 overseas aircraft operators worldwide, and tracks over 530 aircraft. This, together with attendance at eight international conferences, placed the company in a strong position for the award.

Commenting on the occasion, Dave Jesse, CEO said, “We are delighted to receive the award for Exporter of the Year. It is a fitting tribute to our skilled team of flight data analysts, software engineers and safety specialists who have worked hard to achieve world’s best status.”

About Flight Data Services

Flight Data Services (FDS) provides a fully comprehensive flight data monitoring service to commercial and private aircraft operators. Focusing on the advancement of aviation safety through the innovative use of flight data, FDS helps aircraft operators comply with stringent international civil aviation regulations and certification guidelines, maximize operational efficiency and minimize environmental impact. Combining expert knowledge of flight data, aviation safety, and information technology, FDS helps make air travel safer.

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For further information, please contact:

Lee Holloran
Marketing Executive

Tel: +44 (0)1329 223663
Fax: +44 (0)1329 223664
E-mail: lee.holloran@flightdataservices.com 
Website: www.flightdataservices.com 
Flight Data Services, 189-199 West Street, Fareham, PO16 0EN, UK

Translating this raw data into operational business intelligence is an integral part of an aircraft operator’s safety program. Identifying trends and fully investigating circumstances behind minor incidents enables safety managers to improve operational procedures and training, raising awareness of safety issues within the operation and assisting management to make informed business decisions. Style Intelligence will allow FDS to provide its customers with a secure report portal from which they can instantly and interactively generate their own reports and drill down into data.

“We were very selective, having looked at about a dozen similar products. In the end, it was an easy choice because other offerings were unable to meet our fundamental requirements. We selected InetSoft on the basis that their product integrated well with our applications and business processes,” said Martin Wimpress, IT Manager at FDS.

“In addition, and unique amongst similar solutions, the InetSoft products provided static as well as dynamic reporting, enabling our customers to investigate their data against pre-determined measurables,” continued Wimpress. “This functionality provides our customers with a powerful benchmarking tool to determine how many similar events have occurred over an established period, and whether they are increasing or decreasing in regularity, effectively measuring their safety programme against past performance.”

Mark Flaherty, Chief Marketing Officer at InetSoft notes how well equipped Style Intelligence is to meet Flight Data Services’ specific needs: “Style Intelligence is designed to meet high performance demands using real-time data sources for hundreds or even thousands of simultaneous users. We’re pleased to be a central component of FDS’s safety maintenance solution for the aviation industry.”

Style Intelligence is a full-featured business intelligence solution that is 100% Java at the server level and HTML, JavaScript, and Flash at the client level, which combined with its SOA architecture and open standards-based technology, makes for an ideal embedding and integration-ready application for dashboards and visualization. End-users get visually compelling, highly interactive access to data, and solution providers get a highly customizable, quick to learn and quick to deploy business intelligence toolset and information delivery platform.

About Flight Data Services

Flight Data Services (FDS) provides a fully comprehensive flight data monitoring service to commercial and private aircraft operators. Focusing on the advancement of aviation safety through the innovative use of flight data, FDS helps aircraft operators comply with stringent international civil aviation regulations and certification guidelines, maximize operational efficiency and minimize environmental impact. Combining expert knowledge of flight data, aviation safety, and information technology, FDS helps make air travel safer.

About InetSoft

Since 1996 InetSoft has been delivering easy, agile, and robust business intelligence software that makes it possible for organizations and solution providers of all sizes to deploy or embed full-featured business intelligence solutions. Application highlights include visually-compelling and interactive dashboards that ensure greater end-user adoption plus pixel-perfect report generation, scheduling, and bursting. InetSoft’s patent pending Data Block™ technology enables productive reuse of queries and a unique capability for end-user defined data mashup. This capability combined with efficient information access enabled by InetSoft’s visual analysis technologies allows maximum self-service that benefits the average business user, the IT administrator, and the developer. InetSoft solutions have been deployed at over 3,000 organizations worldwide, including 25% of Fortune 500 companies, spanning all types of industries

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Ryan Aviation Corporation began in 1976 as a fixed base operator (FBO) providing fueling and maintenance services. Ryan has operated over 30 aircraft of various types on its Operating Certificate and has emerged as an industry leader for safety, service and quality in the charter airline market.

Flight Data Services (FDS) provides a comprehensive range of Flight Data Monitoring (FDM), Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA), and safety solutions to commercial and private aircraft operators worldwide. Focusing on the advancement of aviation safety through the innovative use of flight data, FDS helps aircraft operators meet international regulatory requirements, maximise operational efficiency and minimise environmental impact. By combining expert knowledge of flight data, aviation safety, and information technology, FDS helps make air travel safer.

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For further information, please contact:

Lee Holloran
Marketing Executive
Flight Data Services

Tel: +44 (0)1329 223663
Fax: +44 (0)1329 223664
E-mail: lee.holloran@flightdataservices.com
Website: www.flightdataservices.com 
189-199 West Street, Fareham, PO16 0EN, UK

Flight Data Services (FDS) provides a comprehensive range of Flight Data Monitoring (FDM), Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA), and safety solutions to commercial and private aircraft operators worldwide. Focusing on the advancement of aviation safety through the innovative use of flight data, FDS helps aircraft operators meet international regulatory requirements, maximise operational efficiency and minimise environmental impact. By combining expert knowledge of flight data, aviation safety, and information technology, FDS helps make air travel safer.

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 For further information, please contact:

Lee Holloran
Marketing Executive

Tel: +44 (0)1329 223663
Fax: +44 (0)1329 223664
E-mail: lee.holloran@flightdataservices.com
Website: www.flightdataservices.com 
Flight Data Services, 189-199 West Street, Fareham, PO16 0EN, UK