Capture your flight data early. Certify faster. Keep the value flying.
Flight Data Systems is a data lifecycle partner for advanced air mobility. Record with SENTRY, retrieve with HHMPI, and verify with our readout services, so the data you capture in development speeds certification and keeps working through entry into service.
Record
SENTRY / SENTRY25. Crash-protected recorders capture cockpit voice and flight data from the prototype and flight test phases forward.
Retrieve
HHMPI. The handheld tool downloads data off SENTRY and nearly every recorder flying today, with no training required.
Verify
Readout Services. Define and develop your platform parameter set for routine analysis and certification requirements.
Analyze & Use
FDM / FOQA. The verified data feeds flight data monitoring and equipment diagnostics through our analytics partners.
Leverage your data for the life of the platform.
For AAM programs, flight recorders are the front end of a data lifecycle. Keeping the recorder family and parameter framework continuous from flight test into production turns development, compliance, and early service data into a single record that compresses certification timelines, sets measured benchmarks for maintenance, and keeps paying off long after entry into service.
DESIGN
ON DATA.
Instrumented flight test shows how your avionics, motors, battery pack, and thermal management perform in flight rather than in analysis. Each recorded flight can be reviewed for parameter deviations, equipment diagnostics, and ambient conditions, or anything else behind performance you did not expect.
- Parameter deviations reviewed flight by flight
- Equipment diagnostics from recorded data
- Developmental data continuous into for-credit testing
EARN THE INTERVALS.
A new eVTOL enters service on inspection intervals and component life limits set by analysis. Short missions and high utilization put cycles on packs, motors, and rotors far faster than flight hours accumulate, so recording from the first flight gives you the cycle and duty cycle data to substantiate longer intervals.
- Cycles and duty cycle recorded from first flight
- Battery state of health tracked on your aircraft
- Component life measured rather than modeled
KNOW YOUR MARGINS.
Energy reserve, duty cycle, and route performance decide what your operation can schedule. Recorded data replaces projected figures with what the aircraft actually delivers across your routes, altitudes, and turnarounds.
- Energy reserve measured against requirement
- Duty cycle and envelope as flown
- Route and turnaround performance
Record. Retrieve. Use.
Record on the aircraft, retrieve between flights, and make the data usable. Proven equipment, configured for your aircraft, in service across fixed-wing and rotorcraft fleets.
SENTRY
SENTRY Series
SENTRY was designed for AAM as a line-fit recorder rather than a transport recorder adapted down. Most installations are configuration rather than development, and the same family and parameter framework carry from flight test into production.
- ED-112A CVR, FDR, or CVFDR
- 4.5 lb titanium case, two ULB positions for tight installs
- Software-free FPGA architecture, lower NRE at certification
- Ethernet and standard aviation interfaces, minimal customization
- Patent-pending memory protection, no software in the record path
- Optional integrated RIPS, addable later
HHMPI
Handheld Multipurpose Interface
Flight test produces data faster than anyone wants to wait for it. HHMPI pulls recorded data off the aircraft between flights without a specialist and without downtime, and it is not limited to our hardware.
- Data off the aircraft between flights
- Reads SENTRY and most OEM recorders across 100+ airframes
- No training required, field-ready
- Secure transfer over Wi-Fi, Ethernet, or external memory
- Platform-specific database for your operations
Define & Analyze
Data definition and decode for your platform
A recorder captures what it is told to capture. On a new aircraft none of that exists yet: which parameters, at what rates, and how raw counts convert to engineering units. We build that framework for your platform, so data coming off the aircraft is usable by your engineers from the first flight and by whatever FDM program you run later. It is also what makes compliance readout possible when you get there.
- Parameter set defined for your platform and certification basis
- Raw recorded data decoded to engineering units
- Frameworks developed across hundreds of platform types
- One framework serving engineering, compliance, and FDM
Own your data lifecycle. First flight to fleet service.
From recorder selection through the life of every aircraft you deliver, we are your flight data partner. That means one lifecycle from first flight into service, so nothing gets re-integrated or requalified when the program scales and grows.
- Recorder selection and integration for your architecture
- Parameter framework developed for your platform
- Retrieval that keeps pace with flight test cadence
- Engineers who have taken new platforms through this
Talk to the flight data engineers
For OEM programs, integration questions, and certification planning, reach the flight data team directly.
