National General Aviation Flight Information Database (NGAFID)

Despite many safety efforts, General Aviation (GA) accident rates in the United States remain high. The National General Aviation Flight Information Database (NGAFID) is being developed as a neutral mechanism to collect, archive, analyze, and disseminate de-identified flight data to participants and aviation safety researchers. Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability (PEGASAS) is working to expand and improve the NGAFID to make it easier to submit data, cover a wider range of aircraft, and to identify trends in safety performance across the US GA fleet. The objectives are to develop recommended exceedances for existing NGAFID aircraft and selected aircraft in the PEGASAS fleet, develop a safety performance tool, expand the NGAFID database to PEGASAS flight schools, and expand the NGAFID database to other flight organizations. The following is expected benefits if objectives are reached: (1) the NGAFID system will provide a secure, web-accessible database and analytical toolkit; (2) participating operators will be able to conduct safety and operational quality analysis of their flight data records; (3) analytical capabilities will include well-established methods in flight data monitoring (FDM) practice as well as novel data analysis approaches; and (4) the system will also allow participating operators to analyze aggregate safety performance.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $1638506
• Contract Numbers:

  12-C-GA-PU-008,024,025,035,044

  12-C-GA-GIT-004,006,007,009,011

  12-C-GA-OSU-004,012,013,021,026

  12-C-GA-PU-055

  12-C-GA-OSU-039

  12-C-GA-GIT-018

  12-C-GA-GIT-024

  12-C-GA-GIT-026

  12-C-GA-GIT-030

  12-C-GA-PU-68

  12-C-GA-PU-073

  12-C-GA-PU-075

  12-C-GA-PU-082

  12-C-GA-PU-093

  12-C-GA-PU-097

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport
  Atlantic City, NJ  United States  08405
• Project Managers:

  Johnson, Charles

• Performing Organizations:

  Ohio State University, Integrated Systems Engineering

  210 Baker Systems Building
  1971 Neil Avenue
  Columbus, OH  United States  43210

  Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Aerospace Engineering

  270 Ferst Drive
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332

  Purdue University

  701 West Stadium Avenue
  Armstrong Hall of Engineering
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907-2045
• Principal Investigators:

  Smith, Phillip

  Mavris, Dimitri

  Marais, Karen

• Start Date: 20140205
• Expected Completion Date: 20200930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: PEGASAS Project 5

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aviation safety; Data collection; Databases; Flight information services; General aviation; Information dissemination
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01587302
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability
• Contract Numbers: 12-C-GA-PU-008,024,025,035,044, 12-C-GA-GIT-004,006,007,009,011, 12-C-GA-OSU-004,012,013,021,026, 12-C-GA-PU-055, 12-C-GA-OSU-039, 12-C-GA-GIT-018, 12-C-GA-GIT-024, 12-C-GA-GIT-026, 12-C-GA-GIT-030, 12-C-GA-PU-68, 12-C-GA-PU-073, 12-C-GA-PU-075, 12-C-GA-PU-082, 12-C-GA-PU-093, 12-C-GA-PU-097
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 19 2016 4:03PM