ZubAir Flight Data System
The real-time nature of the ZubAir system makes it extremely useful for the ground-based monitoring of flights, allowing for engine data and pilot control inputs to be analyzed while an aircraft is in flight.
Currently, most flight recorder data are only analyzed days or weeks after a flight, when the opportunity to address cost-saving efficiency and safety issues is long past. With the ZubAir System, flight crews and maintenance teams would be able to make adjustments based on streaming data when it matters most. In addition, the ZubAir system would encourage data mining in the aviation industry to enhance aircraft performance, conserve resources, protect the environment, and improve safety.
The ZubAir system runs on an aircraft server and distributed main and data servers. The mode of transmission can be radio, cellular links, satellite, or via emerging technology such as high-altitude blimps. Throughout a flight, the ZubAir System constantly conveys flight data to the main server; at flight completion, the cloud has a mirrored version of the aircraft’s flight data recorder. The amount and rate of data and the time window are highly predictable, thus resulting in efficient planning of resources.
“This seems like a very close future…Private jets/ corporate jets would like to see this as well”
From an aviation industry expert interviewed during customer discovery process
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