(L/D)max Aviation Group

As the world works together to discover new, innovative ways to investigate aircraft accidents of all kinds, one aspect that has becoming increasingly important is flight data analysis. While this can be complex and challenging, the benefits of looking closely at the details of this particular aspect of aircraft investigations can be crucial to the development of safety programs. Developing a strong knowledge of how these systems work, their procedures, and their impact, attendees of this course will gain invaluable knowledge and insight into an area of aircraft accident investigations that is continually becoming more and more important.

Primarily, this course will focus on the elements for conducting analysis of aircraft recorders. Attendees of this course will review recorder design, management requirements, and much more. The instructor will discuss Flight Data Monitoring as well as Flight Operations Quality Assurance. In addition, this class has been set up to allow each student to participate in group analysis projects using actual recorded mediums and data printouts in an effort to give all of the attendees a real-world example of how the flight data analysis applies to actual accidents.

This course has been designed to benefit a variety of individuals who take part in aircraft accident and incident investigations. Primarily, this course is aimed at those individuals who have the assigned responsibility of participating in aircraft accident investigations as well as those who are tasked with conducting flight data analysis for their organization. The FDAI course is a very valuable addition to the continuing education of investigators who are continually seeking to increase their knowledge and impact on the aviation industry and on the development of effective safety programs around the world.

(L/D)_max Aviation is confident that attendees of the FDAI course will receive a number of benefits that will enhance their future aircraft accident investigations. With an experienced, skilled, highly-knowledgeable instructor in place for this course, all of those in attendance, regardless of their particular role in the industry, will gain valuable insight into flight data analysis aspects of accident investigation. Benefits of the this course include the following:

• Learn about the history behind flight recording and its impact on the aviation industry
• Education of the essentials of conducting analysis of recorded data commonly associated with a variety of aircraft
• Learn, understand and gain skills necessary to know exactly how to apply the requirements of Flight Data and Cockpit Voice Recorders
• Develop a familiarity with flight data analysis procedures
• Discover how flight animation is used to enhance this aspect of investigations
• Education on radar data analysis
• Learn about the importance of Flight Data Monitoring
• Understand the role of Flight Operations Quality Assurance and why it is critical to an aircraft accident investigation
• Gain the necessary knowledge and skills to develop and train individuals from your own organization in the use of a flight data analysis program
• Participate in actual group analysis projects using real recorded mediums and data printouts from aircraft accidents that have occurred
• Discussions of current recommendations and future trends with regards to flight data analysis in aircraft accident investigations

For those professionals who must satisfy continuing education requirements (professional engineers, medical personnel, etc.) (L/D)_max Aviation provides each attendee that completes the course with an award of 3.6 CEUs.

With (L/D)_max Aviation, course training will take place over the course of 4.5 days. This is classroom instruction time that includes lectures outlines and notes, up-to-date reference materials pertinent to discussions, and a final certificate of completion once all 36 hours have been completed.