Flight Crew Training Based On The Qar Data Analysis System

With the rapid development of civil aviation, China has been witnessing a drastic demand increase of pilots. Flight safety is the foundation of airlines and one of its important guarantee lies in well trained pilots. Since 1997, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has started to require all airlines in China to install the QAR (Quick Access Recorder) system on the aircraft to monitor flight qualities, analyze and identify technical problems existing in the routine airline flight operations. However, most of the airlines have long been accustomed to conventional training models and methods, i.e. providing a repeated fixed training program on a duplicate schedule for pilots with different technical skill levels. Individual differences or diversities are not taken into account during the training. Flight training records are kept manually, which may bring about some defects, such as the incompleteness of various kinds of information records, inconvenience of data acquisition of training subjects and training quality, as well as difficulties in the assessment of training effectiveness. Therefore, development of a computerized information management system based on QAR basic data which is applicable to flight training management will naturally be called for by the airline flight training departments.This article introduces the"QAR-Based Flight Crew Training Analysis System"which has been developed to meet the airline requirements for improving pilot training quality, optimizing training procedures and increasing training efficiency. The system program is developed on the basis of Windows XP. It uses Visual Studio 2008 as the development tool and employs SQL Server 2005 for the development of the background database. This system features various management functions of many aspects, including pilot basic information, flight time, major technical problems, training subjects and system administration. The airline flight training associated departments may make quick reference via this system to analyze the major technical problems the pilots may have during daily flights or routine training, and adjust training subjects to suit individual needs for the purpose of improving training quality and increasing training efficiency. Other operational departments may use this system to manage aircraft dispatch, flight crew collocation in a scientific manner.This system is currently under preparation for trial operation. It is expected that, through practical application, the rationality and convenience of the system design can be verified to satisfy the requirements of improving training quality and efficiency and promoting flight safety.