RE:ICAO Aircraft-tracking Mandate Addressed By New SystemsGreat find, CF. The entire article is worth reading. Here are the paragraphs about Flyht.
Vendors see extensive retrofit opportunities, according to major suppliers. One, FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. of Calgary, Canada, just received a U.S. patent for FLYHTStream, a proprietary automatic exceedance-alerting software product integrated into the company’s Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS). Introduced in 2014, FLYHTStream was prompted by the loss of Air France Flight 447.
AFIRS is currently used by 70 carriers and provides real-time information as to the operational status of an aircraft, including remote diagnostics and exceedance reports, which are streamed to the airline’s operations center over the Iridium satellite network. As Tom Schmutz, the company’s CEO, reports, AFIRS is currently the only system with the capability to acquire flight data recorder information—in real time—and stream it directly to the ground. “That satisfies the Amendment 40 requirement for timely flight data recorder access,” he notes.
With FLYHTStream, Schmutz explains, if there is an exceedance, the AFIRS is triggered and automatically streams an exceedance report and tracks the aircraft at 20-sec. intervals. Alternatively, the pilot can manually stream the report using a control interface, or the airline operations center can initiate streaming from the ground.
The streamed information is displayed via UpTime, FLYHT Aerospace Solutions’ cloud-based server. “During streaming, the cockpit control display screen is actually simulated, putting you on the flight deck—virtually—to see what is going on,” Schmutz says.
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