Onboard Flight Safety Advisory System for Real-Time SOP Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Flight crew members lack real-time access to aircraft parameters and safety events during flights, leading to delayed issue correction and inaccurate documentation of deviations from Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Innovation Solution
A system and method for analyzing aircraft parameter data to determine SOP compliance and safety events in real-time, using a computing device onboard the aircraft to receive data from various systems, identify the current flight phase, and present compliance and safety data to the crew through graphical advisories.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If flight crew members rely on post-flight data collection and analysis, then device complexity is reduced, but real-time access to safety information and SOP compliance data is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously collecting, processing, and analyzing flight data in real-time during the flight. The onboard computer system proactively monitors aircraft parameters, identifies SOP deviations, and generates safety advisories before the flight concludes, eliminating the need for post-flight analysis and ensuring real-time information availability to the flight crew.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically collecting data from various aircraft systems, processing it through algorithms that identify SOP compliance and safety events, and presenting the analyzed information to the flight crew without requiring manual data collection or external analysis. The system serves itself by integrating data acquisition, analysis, and presentation functions into a unified autonomous operation.
2Reliability
If real-time data analysis is implemented onboard, then SOP compliance and safety events are identified promptly, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The onboard computer system performs multiple functions: it collects data from various aircraft systems, identifies the current phase of flight, determines SOP compliance, identifies safety events, and presents information to the crew. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional system, the patent achieves high reliability in SOP compliance determination while managing device complexity through functional integration rather than proliferation of separate specialized systems.
3Reliability
If continuous monitoring of aircraft parameters is performed, then safety events are detected in real-time, but use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous monitoring of aircraft parameters throughout the flight to ensure real-time detection of safety events and SOP deviations. This continuous operation maintains high reliability in safety event detection by constantly analyzing flight data without interruption, ensuring that no safety-critical events are missed regardless of when they occur during the flight profile.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for analyzing data onboard an aircraft is provided. The method obtains aircraft parameter data; identifies a current phase of flight; determines standard operating procedure (SOP) compliance onboard the aircraft, based on the aircraft parameter data and the current phase of flight; identifies relevant safety events, based on the aircraft parameter data and the current phase of flight; and presents data associated with the SOP compliance and the relevant safety events.