IASA Program
Flight operations Quality Assurance
Flight operations Quality Assurance
Flight operations quality assurance (FOQA) started in Europe, but has take root in North America and Asia, enhancing safety and reducing costs for numerous airlines. The practice, moreover, is endorsed not only by company management, but also by pilot unions and regulatory agencies. New technologies are making these programs even better through improved data analysis and transmission. And some carriers are finding it more efficient to outsource their flight data analysis (FDA) in “managed contract” arrangements.
These programs have become an important measuring tool, providing operators with a recorded journal of what transpired on a particular flight. FOQA enables airlines to analyze the data for any events or trends that might signal an exceedence of normal, or standard, operating procedures. When changes or corrections are made, FOQA data then provides a review of these procedures to see if the improvements are working.
The benefits of implementing an FDM/FOQA program
Having identified non-conformity (findings) from any number of audit formularies, what is the best a means to monitor the implementation of complete and permanent corrective actions while ensuring that the ROSI process exemplifies essential SMS attributes such as Root Cause Analyses, and Safety Risk Assessment
FAA requires engine inspections after UA328 incident The U.S. FAA issued an emergency AD, requiring operators to perform thermal acoustic image (TAI) inspections of the 1st-stage low-pressure compressor blades on PW4074, PW4074D, PW4077, PW4077D, PW4084D, PW4090, and PW4090-3 turbofan engines, before further flight. This action was taken in response to the Feb. 20 engine failure […]