Comparative Analyses of Operational Flights

This report describes a cooperative experiment conducted by ONERA and NASA, with the support of Airbus S.A.S. and easyJet Airline Company, Ltd. The study evaluated the benefits of two distinctly different methodologies for analyzing the same set of digital flight-recorded data. The experiment analyzed a set of easyJet commercial-flight data with both typical Flight Operational Quality Assur-ance (FOQA) software of an airline (in this case, AirFASE, developed by Airbus and Teledyne) and The Morning Report of Atypical Flights (developed by NASA). The study demonstrated the feasibility and potential value of using The Morning Report tool in conjunction with the FOQA airline tool and also showed the complementarities of the results produced by the two approaches.