Fri, Oct 23, 2009
Will Analyze Voice And Data Information To Track Potentially
Unsafe Trends
Metro Aviation has selected CAE
Flightscape to provide the analytical solution component for its
newly established Flight and Operational Quality Assurance program
(FOQA). The agreement was announced Thursday.
Metro Aviation recently added to its current operational fleet
of 70 EMS aircraft, two EC145 helicopters for Cleveland Metro Life
Flight, equipped with the CFDVR system from Eurocopter that will be
a data source for FOQA analysis. Metro Aviation, Inc. managing
Director, Milton Geltz, started “The CAE Flightscape program
will be used to analyze flight data and voice information to
identify unsafe trends, to develop corrective safety actions and to
monitor the effectiveness of our safety actions.
Of particular interest is the ability to overlay actual flight
data from multiple flights against an established baseline flight
path.“ Mike Poole, Executive Director & Chief
Investigator for CAE Flightscape stated “Metro Aviation is
among the first in the air medical transportation operations
industry to implement flight data analysis as a proactive safety
management system and we applaud their leadership.”
Metro currently operates two EC145s for Cleveland Metro Life
Flight with the third expected to enter service in mid October
after a joint program on behalf of Metro Aviation and Eurocopter to
evaluate the addition of Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)
capability for the EC145. A fourth aircraft is expected to enter
operation in March 2010. Metro Aviation, Inc. and CAE Flightscape
are also working with Outerlink Corporation to add data retrieved
from the Outerlink OVVR (Outerlink Voice and Video Recorder) that
Metro Aviation, Inc. aircraft are either equipped with or in the
process of being upgraded.
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