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FDM Mandate for EMS To Yield Meaningful Data for Operators

With enough data in hand, organizations can transform their culture.

By Mark Huber • Contributor

March 26, 2017

A year from now the FAA's new flight data monitoring (FDM) mandate takes effect for air ambulance operators. But how do operators use all that data as it relates to a flight operations quality assurance (FOQA) program? That was the question posed by Brian Mahoney, business development manager of Skytrac Systems, at a recent operators forum. "Are you just collecting the data to 'check that [compliance] box' or are you actually using it to advance safety?" Mahoney provided some basic guidelines for how to integrate FDM data into an organization's safety program.

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