Philippine Airlines Orders Teledyne/Airbus Flight Data Monitoring System

Philippine Airlines has ordered a flight data monitoring system, jointly developed by Teledyne Controls and Airbus, for its fleet of A319, A320, A330, A340 and B747-400s.

The AirFASE (aircraft flight analysis and safety explorer) system was designed to assist operators with their flight operations, safety management and aircraft maintenance programs, which are becoming increasingly commonplace throughout the airline industry.

AirFASE helps airlines evaluate trends and identify risk precursors, which enables early preventive and corrective actions. The system performs all FDM (flight data monitoring) major functions, but also contains a FAP (flight analysis program), unique to each aircraft type, that reconstructs the flight, compares actual data with recommended operational limits, and highlights anomalies. In addition, it has visualization tools, including 3D animation, which makes it easy to review flight profiles, and a configurable report editor, which creates comprehensive and customizable reports.

Teledyne and Airbus say the system is compatible with all major types of commercial transport aircraft.

Incidentally, Philippine Airlines was their 100^th AirFASE customer.  05-27-2008.

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