“Increasingly corporate operators are turning to FDS for analysis of their data. As the world’s leading FDM service provider for corporate aircraft, our service not only saves the cost of software, analysis and validation but also provides comparative statistics. Only FDS can show how your safety levels compare with other corporate operators. We welcome EFS as the latest corporate customer and look forward to helping them maintain the highest standards of safety”.

EFS are a Scandinavian based business jet company operating a highly flexible state of the art fleet of aircraft. EFS have access to smaller airports not often used by the airlines, which can offer shorter transfer times and more privacy. FDS will be providing complete FDM services for EFS Gulfstream 550 aircraft.

For further information, please contact:

Riina Savolainen
Business Development Officer

Flight Data Services, Gosport Business Centre, Aerodrome Road, Gosport, PO13 0FQ, UK

Located in Slovenia Elit’Avia provides dedicated corporate aviation services. FDS will be providing FDM services for their Gulfstream 450 aircraft.

Founded in Madrid in 2004, Bravo Airlines operates scheduled flights within the African Continent, as well as connections between Africa and Europe. FDS will be providing FDM services for Bravo Airlines Boeing 767 aircraft.

For further information, please contact:

Riina Savolainen
Business Development Officer

Flight Data Services, Gosport Business Centre, Aerodrome Road, Gosport, PO13 0FQ, UK

DAT offers regular scheduled flights, charter flights and comprehensive freight cargo services. One of the most recent service offerings also involves ambulance flights throughout Europe. FDS will be providing FDM services for DAT’s two ATR-72 aircraft.

For further information, please contact:

Riina Savolainen
Business Development Officer

Flight Data Services, Gosport Business Centre, Aerodrome Road, Gosport, PO13 0FQ, UK

A presentation was given by Dave Jesse, the Managing Director of FDS. Also attending the presentation were Air Commodore Rich Jones (retd), the newly appointed CEO of the UK Flight Safety Committee, and Capt Simon Searle the FDS Flight Safety Consultant.

For further information, please contact:

Riina Savolainen
Business Development Officer

Flight Data Services, Gosport Business Centre, Aerodrome Road, Gosport, PO13 0FQ, UK

Albanian low-cost airline Belle Air operates international flights to several cities in Italy, as well as Greece, Turkey and Kosovo. FDS will be providing FDM service for Belle Air’s MD-82 aircraft.

Aurora Airlines is a charter airline based in Ljubjana, Slovenia. It operates an MD-82 flying between the biggest cities of Germany to Kosovo.

For further information, please contact:

Riina Savolainen
Business Development Officer

Flight Data Services, Gosport Business Centre, Aerodrome Road, Gosport, PO13 0FQ, UK

The User Group Meeting was well attended by delegates from 15 FDS customer airlines. As well as presentations from the customer airlines on various aspects of FDM, the meeting was addressed by guest speakers Nick Dann and Mark Ford, Senior Inspectors of Air Accidents from AAIB, who did a presentation on AAIB and gave a special guided tour of the AAIB Hangar with an opportunity to examine aircraft wreckages from past accidents.

Before the meeting FDS Consulting ran a two day training course on Basic FDM Procedures. The course was developed specifically for Flight Safety Officers and Engineers who were new to flight data monitoring and those FDS customers who wanted to improve the results obtained from FDM.

Attendees of the Basic FDM Procedures Training Course

For further information, please contact:

Flight Data Services, Gosport Business Centre, Aerodrome Road, Gosport, PO13 0FQ, UK