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APMS - Aviation Performance Measuring System
   
Research Objective
 
The mission of the APMS project is to make aviation safer by 1) developing advanced concepts and prototype software for flight data analysis and 2) transferring those tools to industry.
 
 
News and Events
 
 

7/28/2005- The ASMM project team received an R&D 100 Award for the development of the Morning Report of Atypical Flights tool.

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Research Overview
 

APMS is developing the next generation of tools for flight data analysis and interpretation. Airlines, military units and corporate operators all analyze aircraft flight data to identify contributing factors and corrective actions for situations in which aircraft performance parameters exceed prescribed limits during a flight.

Collaborating with air carriers and vendors of Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) program software, APMS implemented a number of key tools over the past eight years to advance the science of flight data analysis. These began with workload reducing tools for exceedance-based analyses and have progressed to sophisticated multivariate statistical analyses of full datasets to include normal as well as exceedance data.

Advanced APMS tools now look beyond events within individual flights to identify systemic problems through statistical analyses across many flights.

   
   
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APMS Morning Report Analysis Aviation Data Integration System (ADIS)
   
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