FDS News and Views

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

With approximately 1000 website users and 258 data transfer units, there is a continuous flow of data to our servers at all times of the day and night. In order to meet current and future demands, we have upgraded the network circuit at our data centre from 10Mb to 100Mb.

This bandwidth upgrade will ensure data uploads from POLARIS transfer units are timely and that our website users enjoy a fast and responsive experience.

19th September 2011 – Fareham, UK: Flight Data Services is delighted to announce it has been selected by DHL Bahrain to provide Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) for its air freight fleet. 

DHL is a global leader in air freight, carrying 12% of the total worldwide market – more than twice as much as their closest competitor. The company’s operations are managed from over 150 countries, providing a personalized service to and from all key markets.

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
Thackeray House, 189-199 West Street,
Fareham, Hants  PO16 0EN, UK

We have doubled our raw flight data processing capacity to meet the increasing demand for our services from new customers and expanding fleets of existing customers. We also designed and implemented a bespoke load balancing solution, specific to the needs of processing raw flight data to manage a cluster of any size.  This makes it easier for us to add more processing capacity as required in the future to meet increasing customer demand.

The processing cluster not only affords us extra processing capability but also resilience. Should a processing node fail, the rest of the system will continue to operate normally.

This recent upgrade compliments the improvements we made earlier in 2011 when we upgraded the server hardware and introduced an advanced disk caching framework to ensure most of the input/ output intensive operations take place in RAM, which can quadruple the throughput of an individual node.