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Flight System Dynamics
Flight Safety
Source: Figure 2/1, SafeClouds.eu Deliverable D2.2
Over the last years, the work of the Flight Safety Team at
the institute has raised attention at several international
airlines and agencies. Besides the ongoing projects,
bilateral cooperations have been strengthened in 2017.
Furthermore, flight safety team members have presented
their work at several conferences well renowned in the
flight safety community.
The Future Sky Safety project is on its way to develop
a prototype for a risk observatory of the total aviation
system. The main contribution of TUM is to create models
describing the flight operations of airlines including the
hazards and their contributing factors. The project is
currently entering its final year with many exciting results
to come.
Another ongoing project is the European Horizon2020
project SafeClouds.eu ). The project
consortium involves five airlines and three air navigation
service providers with the goal of improving flight safety
through aviation data mining. The institute leads a work
package that was mainly carried out in 2017. In April 2017,
a consortium meeting was organized at TUM premises in
Garching.
The European Operators Flight Data Monitoring (EOFDM)
Forum is a voluntary framework initiated by the European
Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and allows flight data
experts to meet and exchange ideas. FSD Flight Safety
Team members are active members of the EOFDM work-
ing groups and also gave presentations at the EOFDM
Conference 2017 in Cologne.
To allow the functionalities developed at the institute to
be used in the flight safety community in the future, the
cooperation with one of the few flight data monitoring
software providers has been intensified in 2017. While the
first steps of a cooperation had been taken in the previous
years, first discussions at management level were carried
out in 2017 and cooperative plans for the future were
developed.
The experience in flight data analyses gained at the
institute raised attention at several European airlines and
agencies. As a result, the research group is part of the
consortia of two European Horizon2020 projects directly
related to flight data analyses with respect to flight safety.
Furthermore, a cooperation with the TUM Statistics
department exists to incorporate advanced statistical
concepts into flight data analysis.
Projects
■■Future Sky Safety: development of a risk observatory
for the total aviation system (EU-H2020)
■■SafeClouds.eu: sharing data to make aviation safer
(EU-H2020)
■■Copula based dependence analysis of functional data
for validation and calibration of dynamic aircraft models
(DFG)