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Flight Operations Data Flow
How flight data moves around an airline's operations: flight planning, the aircraft's ACARS messages, flight data monitoring and crew reports.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Flight plans go to the crew and ATC before departure
- ACARS messages report OOOI times and engine data in flight
- Recorded flight data is analysed for safety trends
Prompt used
Data flow for airline flight operations: the operations control centre creates schedules, the flight planning system uses weather, NOTAMs and aircraft performance to produce flight plans and fuel figures, sent to the crew's electronic flight bag and filed with ATC. In flight the aircraft sends ACARS messages (out, off, on, in times and engine reports) to the ops control and maintenance systems. After landing, quick access recorder data goes to flight data monitoring for safety analysis; crew reports go to the safety management system.
Mermaid code
flowchart LR OCC[Operations Control] -->|Schedule| FP[Flight Planning] WX[Weather and NOTAMs] --> FP PERF[(Aircraft Performance)] --> FP FP -->|Flight plan, fuel| EFB[Crew Electronic Flight Bag] FP -->|Filed plan| ATC[Air Traffic Control] AC[Aircraft] -->|ACARS: OOOI times| OCC AC -->|ACARS: engine reports| MX[Maintenance Control] AC -->|QAR data after landing| FDM[Flight Data Monitoring] FDM -->|Safety events| SMS[Safety Management System] EFB -->|Crew reports| SMS
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