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Cologne, September, 2017

On Air, Issue 17: Data for Safety

Editorial - Interview - Featured topic - Figure of the month - News & events

editorial

Big Data at European Level

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A co-operative partnership between EU bodies and industry is nothing new in the EU.  But an innovative programme such as Data4Safety (D4S) has not happened before.  D4S aims at taking advantage of all the innovative digital technologies (such as Big Data & Data Mining) and gathering all relevant safety data in one place. This will give the possibility of identifying and assessing systemic and emerging safety risks in aviation.

There are major and important programmes run by the airline operators or the national civil aviation authorities but so far none of the programmes provide a consolidated version. Despite all the collaboration efforts and data sharing, the fact is that today in Europe the wealth of safety data is not exploited as a whole and the analytical capacity is not synergised to its full extend.

Well, with D4S we would like to change this approach.  The programme intends to gather the efforts and provide the needed synergies. As a result, D4S will become the tool to enable strategic risk management in aviation at the European level.

 

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interview

Captain Bert Bonke, from ECA, on D4S

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1) What is your role in the D4S “team”?

I am the co-chairman of the D4S Technical Board (TB). Together with Erick Ferrandez and the other TB members, I am responsible for the day to day operation of the programme. In this startup phase that involves drafting the procedures and agreements and processing the inputs from other technical board members and presenting the end product to the Steering Board for approval.

As an organisation, ECA is one of the key stakeholders in the European Civil Aviation industry. Representing 38.000 airline pilots, we are the key representative of the profession. As such we commit to work with the industry and EASA to maintain and improve the high safety record of European aviation. We see our role in D4S as twofold: On one hand, we bring the expertise and first-hand experience from the “front end” of the industry to the various task teams, thereby helping to give the operational context input to the data analysis and help translate the findings of the programme into tangible practical safety solutions.
On the other hand, we strive to be seen as a “purveyor of trust”, not only to the pilots from the operators involved in the programme but also by the different stakeholders, whether EASA or industry.

 

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featured

Data4Safety: A partnership for a data driven aviation safety analysis in Europe

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What is the Data4Safety programme?

Data4Safety (also known as D4S) is a data collection and analysis programme that will support the goal to ensure the highest common level of safety and environmental protection for the European aviation system.

The programme aims at collecting and gathering all data that may support the management of safety risks at European level. This includes safety reports (or occurrences), flight data (i.e. data generated by the aircraft via the Flight Data Recorders), surveillance data (air traffic data), weather data - but those are only a few from a much longer list.

As for the analysis, the programme’s ultimate goal is to help to "know where to look" and to "see it coming". In other words, it will support the Performance-based Environment and set up a more predictive system.

More specifically, the programme will allow to better know where the risks are (safety issue identification), determine the nature of these risks (Risk Assessment) and verify if the safety actions are delivering the needed level of safety (performance measurement). It aims to develop the capability to discover vulnerabilities in the system across terabytes of data.

 

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4 in the acronym D4S and applies to the 4 principles of collaboration, voluntariness, confidentiality and Just Culture from the programme charter signed by the D4S members.

news events

Latest News

7 July 2017: EASA welcomes lift of Super Puma operational ban by UK and Norway Aviation authorities

13 July 2017: CAAS and EASA expand collaboration with new working arrangement on airworthiness certification

24 August 2017: Easy Access Rules for Aerodromes are available!

18 September 2017: EASA signs Cooperation Arrangement on Aviation Safety with Germany and France

26 September 2017: Revision 6 of the Technical Implementation Procedures (TIP) signed between EASA and the FAA

Upcoming Events

30 September 2017: GA roadshow in Spain

5 October 2017: GA roadshow in Estonia

12-13 October 2017: 1st Asia Pacific workshop on flying at high altitude under adverse weather conditions

12-13 October 2017: Caribbean - EASA conference

16-17 October 2017: General Aviation Structures Workshop

19-20 October 2017: 6th International Cooperation Forum

26 October 2017: GA roadshow in Switzerland

8-9 November 2017: High level conference Cybersecurity in Civil Aviation

15-17 November 2017:  2017 Global Manufacturing Meeting

20-21 November 2017: Technical training on Cybersecurity in Aviation

22-23 November 2017: Product Certification & Design Organisation Workshop

28-30 November 2017: 5th Annual EASA MRB Team Meeting

5-6 December 2017: 11th Rotorcraft Symposium

Details on these and other upcoming EASA News & Events are available here.

 

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