Aircraft Flight Data Logger with Remote Analysis and Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies fail to effectively track and analyze flight data in real-time, particularly for general aviation, leading to unnoticed pilot errors that can compromise flight safety, as they lack comprehensive systems for data collection, analysis, and feedback, especially for pilots with less training and less equipped aircraft.
Innovation Solution
A comprehensive flight data collection and analysis system that includes a data logger for storing and prioritizing flight data, a global positioning system for location tracking, and a remote server for processing and analyzing data, providing graphical and textual feedback to pilots and instructors, and alerting emergency services in case of incidents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If comprehensive flight data collection and analysis systems are implemented, then flight safety and pilot self-improvement are enhanced, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides flight data processing into distinct segments: data collection by the airborne logger, data transmission via communication interfaces, data storage on the server, and data analysis through the web application. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system reliability without excessive complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary web server that acts as a mediator between the airborne data logger and the analysis tools. This intermediary handles data transmission, storage, and provides access through a web interface, simplifying the overall system architecture by centralizing complex functions in a dedicated intermediary component.
2Loss of information
If real-time flight data tracking and analysis are implemented, then pilot errors are identified and corrected, but data transmission requirements and system resource usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic data transmission where the airborne logger collects flight data continuously and transmits it at regular intervals or when the aircraft is on the ground. This periodic action reduces continuous data transmission energy requirements while ensuring pilot errors are captured and analyzed, maintaining effective error detection without excessive energy consumption.
3Reliability
If flight data is prioritized and reordered before transmission, then critical incident information is preserved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The airborne data logger performs preliminary actions by prioritizing and reordering flight data before transmission occurs. Critical data such as incident information, pilot actions, and flight parameters are tagged and organized in advance, ensuring that when data is transmitted and received, the most important information is already positioned for immediate analysis, reducing overall processing time despite the initial sorting effort.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for automated collection and analysis of aircraft flight data. In accordance with one aspect, a system for collecting flight data associated with an aircraft is provided to transmit collected flight data to a remote system for storage and processing. In accordance with another aspect, a remote system utilizes received aircraft location data to determine whether an aircraft flight incident has occurred, and to alert appropriate emergency services. In accordance with another aspect, a remote system analyzes received aircraft flight data and quantitatively evaluates performance of a pilot. In yet another aspect, a system is provided for graphical and textual display of collected aircraft flight data and pilot performance evaluation data.