About FLYHT Aerospace Solutions

FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. provides real-time communications with aircrafts for the aerospace industry. The company provides airlines, leasing companies, owners, operators and original equipment manufacturers with real-time insights into how their aircraft are performing. The company’s products include AFIRS (Automated Flight Information Reporting System), a satellite communications (Satcom) aircraft interface device (AID) which enables realtime streaming of flight information, aircraft tracking and health monitoring, fuel management, and black box data streaming, as well as TAMDAR (Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting), which aggregates and streams airborne weather data in real-time. FLYHT Systems FLYHT offers various hardware systems and business solutions which support satellite connectivity, real-time communication, flight tracking, and data collection and transmission to support operational, maintenance, and weather data analysis and communications for airline and fleet operators. AFIRS System The Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS) is a device installed on aircraft that captures and monitors various essential functions from the aircraft including data recorded by the flight data recorder (the black box). AFIRS sends this information through satellite networks to FLYHT’s servers, which route the data to customer-specified end points and supply data to the company’s solutions, which display real-time fleet visualizations and actionable fleet intelligence. In addition to its data monitoring and flight tracking functions, AFIRS provides voice and text messaging capabilities that give pilots the ability to communicate with ground support. The system supports a number of value-added solutions, including tracking aircraft and monitoring aircraft health to weather observations. FLYHT’s global satellite coverage is enabled by the Iridium satellite network, providing service to its customers anywhere on the planet. Additionally, AFIRS is unsurpassed when it comes to automating the collection and dissemination of block and flight times. Accurate Out-Off-On-In (OOOI) times translate directly into optimal crew utilization ensuring flight crews don’t time-out ahead of schedule. In 2016, FLYHT announced the Canadian Technical Standard Order (CAN-TSO) Design Approval, CAN-TSO-C159b for the AFIRS 228S. The company’s systems and solutions could provide enhanced global flight tracking capabilities that meet and exceed ICAO’s Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) definitions for both normal and abnormal tracking. The company’s CAN-TSO-C159b Iridium SATCOM solution provides the aircraft with FANS 1/A, ADS-C, CPDLC and ACARS over Iridium messaging capabilities. Benefits offered by FANS include route structure, reduced flight times, reduced fuel burns, and enhanced communications between Air Traffic Control (ATC) and the aircraft. UpTime UpTime is a ground-based, enterprise server that communicates with AFIRS through satellite connectivity and serves the company’s customers with real-time applications. Uptime was originally implemented on a fixed server and some of FLYHT’s customers still receive services through redundant servers located in different cities across Canada. In 2017, FLYHT launched UpTime Cloud and began re-hosting and enhancing aspects of the UpTime server onto the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. FLYHT hosts Cloud instances in different countries according to customer needs and requirements. Customers access their UpTime accounts and data through a secure internet login. From their account, customers can enable, configure, and manage deployed AFIRS units around the globe, as well as upgrade unit software. TAMDAR FLYHT’s Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting (TAMDAR) system is a unique sensor device installed on aircraft that captures temperature, pressure, winds aloft, icing, turbulence and relative humidity. It bundles the data with Global Positioning System (GPS) data and transmits the information in real-time over satellite networks. TAMDAR data provides real-time, atmospheric data collected from 200+ aircraft in North America, Asia, and Europe through frequent soundings (thousands per day) and continuous observations including all the metrics of Radiosonde observations plus icing and turbulence. TAMDAR technology is protected by various U.S. and worldwide patents. The relative humidity data, gathered throughout an aircraft’s flight, makes these weather soundings particularly valuable to meteorologists. FLYHT Solutions FLYHT sells technology solutions which use the data collected the company’s avionics systems to provide business intelligence which aircraft operators could use to streamline and optimize operations and proactively enhance safety. AirMap FLYHT’s AirMap application provides real-time monitoring and insight of fleets through the application’s Aircraft Situational Display (ASD) and an Aircraft Messaging Center (AMC). AirMap offers a new way to run Aircraft Operations Centers by maximizing automation through intelligent data, alerts, and real-time status updates through an interface which visualizes situational data. AirMap is also scalable and flexible as it supports integration with external feeds for position and weather information. AirMap enhances FLYHTLog and FLYHTASD products with flight tracking, and Out-Off-On-In (OOOI) messaging so customers could visualize and seamlessly communicate with their fleets of aircraft through AirMap’s Aircraft Situational Display (ASD). Additional capabilities include an ACARS communications function for pilots and the ability to ingest flight plans as baselines so that flight deviations or indications of low fuel relative to plan trigger operational alerts. AirMap ASD is the primary interface for monitoring the overall fleet status. It is a tool that aggregates a wide array of aircraft and fleet data into an optimized display of visualized fleet intelligence. FLYHTFuel FLYHTFuel is a solution that focuses attention on areas of greatest savings potential to provide information necessary in making operational decisions. Some airlines rely on a time-consuming process of manually generating and analyzing reports to make fuel savings decisions. FLYHTFuel is both a report generation tool and a dynamic, interactive solution that generates alerts and provides operators with the ability to identify trends. The dashboard compares how pilots are operating the aircraft to how they could be flying to maximize efficiency and fuel savings. FLYHTFuel also uses real-time flight data acquired from the aircraft’s onboard systems to present the data through intuitive dashboard visualizations. FLYHTHealth The company’s FLYHT Health solution consists of three different but related functions: automated engine trend reporting, real-time engine and airframe exceedance monitoring, and remote real-time diagnostics. FLYHTLog FLYHTLog is a solution that enables operators to monitor the status and phase of flight of their aircraft and collect detailed Out, Off, On and In (OOOI) time information. Airlines could also automatically route the collected aircraft system and operational data to various partner systems. FLYHTMail The company’s FLYHTMail solution provides two-way text messaging to the flight deck through the multi-control display unit or an iPad application. Updated crew assignments, crew repositioning, and tail swaps can be sent to the aircraft directly and in real-time. FLYHTVoice The company’s FLYHTVoice solution uses the Iridium satellite constellation with global coverage and an onboard satellite phone to provide a private communication channel to the flight deck. When operating remote or oceanic flights, FLYHTVoice allows dispatch to supply updated information to the crew with no delay. The voice capability is particularly during emergency situations or for managing irregular operations or changes to flight plans. It also operates in remote regions with little to no VHF/HF coverage. FLYHTStream FLYHTStream is a solution that performs real-time triggered alerting and black box data streaming in the event of an abnormal situation on an aircraft. FLYHTStream could be activated automatically by a set of pre-determined factors by the pilots or on the ground by airline operations. It uses the AFIRS onboard logic and processing capabilities in combination with ground-based servers to interpret and route alerts and messages to key groups on the ground, such as the airlines, operation centers, and regulators. Animation software converts the raw FDR data into visualizations that could be viewed from any computer to provide ground personnel a view of the controls to get exact insight into what is happening onboard the aircraft. FLYHT has been awarded Canadian, U.S., and Chinese patents for this datastreaming technology, (pending in other countries). FLYHT Weather Observations FLYHT Weather Observations is a solution that utilizes the company’s patented TAMDAR sensor system which collects real-time weather. This application would provide customers with weather observations as well as icing and turbulence. System Approvals The company holds FAA Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA), is a TCCA Approved Manufacturer, a TCCA Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO) and an EASA and CAAC Part 145 Repair Facility. FLYHT is part of a select group of Canadian companies who are approved by TCCA as a Design Approval Organization (DAO). The company also holds multiple STCs to make appropriate modifications, such as installing FLYHT’s AFIRS, FlightLink and TAMDAR technologies, to an aircraft’s approved design. FLYHT has STC approvals from TCCA (Canada), FAA (United States), EASA (European Union), CAAC (China), ANAC (Brazil), DGAC (Mexico), SAAU (Ukraine) and ECAA (Egypt) for various aircraft models to address a variety of customer requirements. FLYHT is pursuing STC validation from the Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia. FLYHT starts the process by opening an application with the regulator before an STC package is created. The data package is prepared, including engineering documents outlining how FLYHT equipment is substantiated and installed on the aircraft, and the package is submitted to the regulator for approval. History The company was founded in 1988. It was formerly known as AeroMechanical Services Ltd. and changed its name to FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. in 2012.