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Perform your own FDR Readouts! Generate CVR Intelligibility Reports! Reduce or eliminate your CVR & FDR readout costs! Increased data security by keeping your data in house! Learn how to create CVR transcripts! Develop your own FDR, FDAU, QAR, & DAR Dataframe Layouts! Learn how to comply with CVR & FDR regulations! Master FDR Calibration! Interpret CVR & FDR regulations! Interpret Aircraft Events and Incidents! Support Aircraft Accident Investigations! Excellent for designing & certifying CVR & FDR installations! Decode and Troubleshoot Flight Data Defects!   A minimum for developing & substantiating STC Parameter Expansions! Master FDR, FDAU, QAR, & DAR Frame Layout Documentation! Support Flight Test Teams Begin your Flight Data Science career! Qualify for Flight Data Analyst & Flight Safety positions Master FDM & FOQA Learn how to disassemble CVR’s and FDR’s down to the CSMU memory chip! Apply Data Science & Artificial Intel to Flight and Voice data Design your own Flight Data Analysis App! Translate ARINC 429 to 717 data!

Perform your own FDR Readouts! Generate CVR Intelligibility Reports! Reduce or eliminate your CVR & FDR readout costs! Increased data security by keeping your data in house! Learn how to create CVR transcripts! Develop your own FDR, FDAU, QAR, & DAR Dataframe Layouts! Learn how to comply with CVR & FDR regulations! Master FDR Calibration! Interpret CVR & FDR regulations! Interpret Aircraft Events and Incidents! Support Aircraft Accident Investigations! Excellent for designing & certifying CVR & FDR installations! Decode and Troubleshoot Flight Data Defects!   A minimum for developing & substantiating STC Parameter Expansions! Master FDR, FDAU, QAR, & DAR Frame Layout Documentation! Support Flight Test Teams Begin your Flight Data Science career! Qualify for Flight Data Analyst & Flight Safety positions Master FDM & FOQA Learn how to disassemble CVR’s and FDR’s down to the CSMU memory chip! Apply Data Science & Artificial Intel to Flight and Voice data Design your own Flight Data Analysis App! Translate ARINC 429 to 717 data!

Cockpit Voice Analysis
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Did the pilot say “V1… Rotate” ? Was the checklist followed? 

Our CVR courses teach you to verify procedures, produce reports and transcripts, clean audio, and use AI for advanced sound identification. 

“I learnt a lot of new things, from the basics of audio to the depths of analysing what is going on in the cockpit…I am looking forward to seeing what the neural networks will bring us in the future.”

– Floris Gisolf, Dutch Safety Board

Flight Data Analytics
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One of our most popular global flight-data series, this course covers regulatory requirements, data interpretation, correlation and calibration, OEM comparisons, and geo-aeronautical chart analysis. Many graduates have gone on to become top FDR analysts in the airline and aerospace industry. 

“The Course met the expectation of learning basic flight data analysis and understanding any flight data waveform and regulatory requirements. Hence, I believe this course will help me for improving my career and I am looking forward to next level of training from your company.”

– Rebhi Zuhair, Etihad Airways Engineering

Flight Data Monitoring
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Whether you’re starting or running an FDM/FOQA program, our courses build your statistical, operational, and theoretical skills. You’ll learn reactive, proactive, and predictive monitoring, key measurements and thresholds, and how data science, ML, and AI support modern FDM programs.

Flight Data Algorithms & Science
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Imagine investigating an event only to find missing or inaccurate data—or an outdated dataframe. This advanced course series solves that. Ideal for accident investigation and flight data engineering, it covers anomaly detection, dataframe generation, error estimation, raw data decoding, neural networks, regression, clustering, and more—the core programming and algorithms behind modern flight data. 

Flight Data Laboratory
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Troubleshooting FDR/CVR issues can be tough. This course series equips you with wiring diagrams, maintenance manuals, and hands-on tools—signal generators, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, ARINC readers, and more—while teaching you to pinpoint software, hardware, conversion, and physical defects for faster, clearer troubleshooting. 

Piloting for Analysts
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To master flight data analytics, you need real operational context. If you struggle to identify approaches, holds, arcs, or recovery procedures in data, this course is for you. You’ll train on VFR/IFR, multi-engine, commercial, and ATP procedures in a flight simulator with real ATC audio—bridging pilot operations and data analysis. 

Aircraft Data Analysis
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This essential course series teaches model-specific analysis of avionics, systems, and powerplant data within real-world operations, failures, ATC limits, and weather. With extensive simulator time, you’ll link pilot actions to the data and incorporate charts, navigation, performance, and QRH procedures to handle complex analyses confidently. 

Aircraft Accident Investigation
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Accidents require deeper investigation than routine event analysis and incidents, up to and including photography, drone techniques, and even pulling data from multiple sources. Whether resolving ATC claims, validating aircraft performance, or determining root cause, you may need to employ radar data, parameter derivatives, and other third-party tools to complete the final accident report. This course series explores the many data sources, and analysis techniques used in modern accident analysis and how to apply them effectively.

I failed my annual FDR readout for my helicopter due to a missing rotor speed. How can I address this?

First make sure the signal/sensor output is available on your helicopter. Next, upgrade your CVR to a model which has rotor speed capability. If you require certification assistance, we can help.

I need to synchronize my FDR and CVR data due to an aircraft incident we just had. How can I go about this?

Locate the sample where your FDR radio altitude reached 50 foot (+/-) on approach and match that up with your CVR audio callout at 50 feet. Next, create a chart correlating the audio time to your GMT time based on the initial 50 foot synchronization you have established. If you find this difficult, you can also attend our CVA 101 course where we teach students how to synchronize CVR and FDR data.

Learn more about how Flight Data Simulation can benefit your organization.

Learn more about how Flight Data Simulation can benefit your organization.

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How do I modify my FDR to record more than 25 hours?

You can modify the program pins at the rear of the SSFDR to uptick your recording hours. For example, if you have a Honeywell PN 980-4700-XXX installed, you can alter the ‘ground/open’ discrete wiring at pin 17 & 18 of the SSFDR mating connector to increase your recording capacity.

How can I determine the amount of hours recorded by my FDR?

The amount of recorded hours is dependent on a combination of your FDAU wps output and FDR maximum allowable recording speed. If there is a one to one relationship between the two units, i.e. – 64 wps FDAU with a 64 wps FDR, you will record the last 25 hours of flight data. This also applies to the case when the FDAU and FDR are both 128wps, 256wps, or even higher. If there is a mismatch between the FDAU and FDR speed, a small and simple calculation can be made to determine actual flight hour recording capacity. See the figure below for the various possibilities:

How can I determine the speed of my Flight Data Recording system in words per second (wps)?

There are basically 4 ways to determine your speed, with the 4th being a bit more involved. First, the speed should be listed or documented in chapter 31 of your aircraft Maintenance Manual and/or Wiring Diagram Manual. However there are times when for some reason, the required information cannot be found. If this is the case, as a second method, you may reference the CMM or technical specification for your Flight Data Acquisition Unit (FDAU). If you are still unable to find this information, you may contact the aircraft manufacturer for the wps or review your previous FDR download analysis reports. Please keep in mind, the OEM will only know the as-delivered configuration of your aircraft. If there were modifications to your aircraft post-delivery – manufacturer unaware of the changes – youll need to contact us for an analysis of your raw data. Using our software we can determine the wps of your system.

With regard to Flight Data Recorder Systems, what exactly does wps imply? I have noticed this abbreviation in our FDR documentation and in communications with the manufacturer several times:

WPS = words per second. A word (12-bits in length) contains binary data which represents a specific parameter value. Please see figure 1 below. Your FDR records in frames (4 second intervals) and each frame contains 4 sub frames (one sub frame = 1 second). With each second that goes by a specific quantity of words are recorded into memory. If you operate a 64 wps FDR system, you will record 64 12-bit words in one second. The higher the word capacity the more information you can record.

What is a Dataframe Layout (DFL)?

A DFL, also known by the name Logical Frame Layout (LFL), Dataframe Interface Control & Requirements Document, and many other names depending on the manufacturer, is a document which specifies the FDR, QAR, or DAR Parameter Word (location), Recording Speed, Sampling Rate, Bits, and Conversion formulae for your recording system.  

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