FDS News and Views

Flight Data Services is pleased to announce the dates for the Autumn Flight Data Monitoring Training Course and Safety Seminar in the UK.

We would like to invite you to attend:

FDM Training Course

FDM Training Course is taking place at the Holiday Inn, London Gatwick Airport on 9^th and 10^th October, 2012.

This two day training course is designed to help you make the most of your FDM programme.  

The course covers website training, applying FDM within a safety management system, data recording and analysis, event investigation and practical application of aircrew interviews.

Safety Seminar

FDS Safety Seminar (formerly “User Group Meeting”) is taking place at the at the Holiday Inn, London Gatwick Airport on the 11^th October, 2012.

The Safety Seminar will include a confidential safety forum, a guest speaker, POLARIS developments and customer feedback.

More information, a full agenda and registration details will be sent out in the coming weeks, but mark your calendar now for these events and please share with any colleagues who may be interested.

Flight Data Services is delighted to announce that we have been selected by VistaJet to provide their new flight data monitoring solution.

VistaJet is a world leading luxury private aviation company outside the Americas, providing exceptional and unparalleled standards of quality, style and service. 

Founded in 2004 by Thomas Flohr, the company offers bespoke innovative flight solutions designed with each high-net-worth individual, entrepreneur and businessperson in mind.

With operations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and West Africa, VistaJet operates a fleet of over 30 all-Bombardier mid and long-range aircraft, – including Global 6000s, Challenger 850s, Challenger 605s and Learjet 60XRs – all of which are under three years old.

VistaJet has an established flight data monitoring programme and has chosen to use POLARIS, our flight data analysis platform, in order to utilise the statistics to better understand their data. The statistics include a unique benchmarking facility that now allows them to see how their operation compares against other operators, by industry sector and aircraft type.

Flight Data Services welcomes VistaJet to our community and looks forward to a long and successful relationship.

Flight Data Services is pleased to announce the dates for the spring Flight Data Monitoring Training Course and Safety Seminar in the USA. 

We would like to invite you to attend:

FOQA Training Course

• POLARIS website training,
• Applying FOQA within a safety management system
• Data recording and analysis
• Event investigation
• Practical application of aircrew interviews

Safety Seminar

• Confidential Safety Forum
• A Guest Speaker
• POLARIS Developments 
• Customer Feedback

Our CEO, Dave Jesse, has been invited to give a talk on what’s new in FOQA and its impact on African airlines. Other presenters include Lufthansa, Air Botswana and Egypt Air. Take advantage of this great opportunity to network, share stories, learn new things and make new friends. For more information go to: http://www.afrasco.aero/index.php/contact-us/.

12th October 2011 – Fareham, UK: Flight Data Services is delighted to announce it has been selected by ConocoPhillips to provide Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) for its corporate fleet. 

ConocoPhillips is an integrated energy company with interests around the world. Headquartered in Houston, the company had approximately 29,900 employees, $160 billion of assets, and $244 billion of annualized revenues as of June 30, 2011.

FDS is the largest provider of outsourced Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) services in the world, currently serving around 70 operators worldwide, monitoring over 800 aircraft, and monitoring in excess of 6,000 flights per week. Powered by innovative web-based POLARIS technology, FDS analysis helps aircraft operators meet international regulatory requirements, minimise risk and maximise operational efficiency. 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
ThackerHouse, 189-199 West Street,
Fareham, Hants  PO16 0EN, UK

To further improve the responsiveness of the POLARIS website, we have recently deployed Memcached, a widely adopted memory object caching system. Memcached improves the performance of our web applications by retrieving information from a fast, managed, in-memory caching system, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases.

Additionally the page loading speeds have been improved by compressing many of the resources used by POLARIS and reducing the number of requests needed to fetch them from our servers.

There are many improvements to the POLARIS user interface, including:

-  improved day-to-day user experience and adoption

-  improved overall application behaviour

-  attractive, user-friendly charts, graphs, maps and visualisations

-  robust statistics reporting including fuel and engine trend data

-  new features including a benchmarking tool that allows you to measure your safety     

   programme against other operators and take-off and landing weather information

-  easy integration into your existing systems
 

We pride ourselves on being on the leading edge of flight data technology and continue to upgrade our products and services to meet future needs of our customers.

20th September 2011 – Fareham, UK: Flight Data Services is delighted to announce it has been selected by British Midland International (bmi) to provide its world class flight data and commercial aircraft safety monitoring services. 

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For further information, please contact:
Lee Holloran
Marketing Executive
Tel: +44 (0)1329 223663
Fax: +44 (0)1329 223664
www.flightdataservices.com
Thackeray House, 189-199 West Street,
Fareham, Hants  PO16 0EN, UK