Rotorcraft
Rotorcraft ASIAS Spools Up
The FAA and industry partners are working on the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing System for rotorcraft.


As the world rotorcraft community looks at new ways to attack the helicopter accident rate, the FAA and industry partners are spooling up the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing System (ASIAS) for rotorcraft. Rotorcraft ASIAS began in late 2014 and currently 30 operators, 13 of them from law enforcement, are participating in the program, in which operator flight recorder data gets confidentially downloaded, converted, validated, checked for consistency, de-identified, then uploaded into a central database currently administered by the Helicopter Association International (HAI). Then standard measures, metrics, data analysis and queries run against the data, and format processes can be run on events to generate studies and spot safety trends. The FAA does not get access to individual operator data.

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