I have been working on TCAS monitoring recently, and I’ll tell you more about that in future blogs, however in the middle of this work a friend asked why we didn’t just automate the processing of flight data. On the same day I sorted out one confusing...

A quick recap for those unfamiliar with TCAS. The Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS II) helps to protect aircraft from hitting each other, so is a Good Thing. Please don’t ask me what happened to TCAS I or the differences between versions...

Customers who land helicopters on oil rigs need to know how high they are on the approach with respect to the deck height, and not with respect to the water. Of course, during the approach they are over the sea and the radio altimeter gives good readings...

Lately I’ve taken to exploring some of the aggregated event statistics that we have on file at Flight Data Services — and as a side project, I was using my knowledge of statistics to develop a fairly straightforward anomaly detection algorithm. My first...