CloudAhoy has released CloudAhoy P-FOQA, a pilot-centric Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA)/Flight Data Monitoring product for general aviation.
CloudAhoy’s vision is to increase aviation safety by using data-driven post-flight analysis, company officials said.
“Airlines saw a spectacular decrease in accident and fatality rates over the last 20 years,” said Chuck Shavit, CloudAhoy’s founder and CEO. “FOQA programs were instrumental in achieving this. In contrast, the general aviation accident rate is still too high. We created a new FOQA product designed from the ground up to cater to the unique needs of general aviation.”
CloudAhoy P-FOQA is pilot-centric (the P is for pilot), providing objective feedback to the pilot immediately after landing, including an optional post-flight email.
At the organization level, such as flight schools, charter, and fractional operations, flight safety personnel can use P-FOQA’s dashboard, updated in real time, for an overall view to monitor trends and adherence to safety standards and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), company officials noted.
P-FOQA is built on the same underlying analysis technology as CloudAhoy’s post-flight debrief, which has been developed for over a decade, CloudAhoy officials explained.
The technology has been “enhanced for efficient data aggregation, providing a natural path between P-FOQA and debrief, thus between aggregated data and diving down into details of a flight for learning and investigating,” officials said.
Over the past year CloudAhoy worked with select customers who formed a P-FOQA Steering Group, including representatives from the Citation Jet Pilots Association, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s College of Aviation at Daytona Beach, Florida, Tidal Aviation, Air Charter Safety Foundation, Jet It, and United Aviate Academy.
Company officials note the product that is being released has been used in beta since June 2022 and “reflects the experience, insight, and wisdom of these industry leaders.”
For more information: CloudAhoy.com/P-FOQA
I don’t want to be too critical, but after reading this article I have no earthly idea what kind of information I’d get from the product, how it works, how much it costs, how many cameras are involved, and so forth.