A software-based analytics tool developed by Boeing to give operators insight into fuel-use trends and possible areas for improvement is identifying greater-than-expected savings, indicating the potential for more holistic tools capable of finding wider, previously untapped efficiency gains beyond fuel-burn reduction, says the company. Introduced in 2014, the Boeing Fuel Dashboard analyzes information collected automatically from each aircraft's flight operational quality assurance/flight-data monitoring system, as well as additional data from loads sheets, flight plans and downlinked digital information broadcast by the aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS). "We are bringing it all together to get a picture of what really happened on a particular flight," says Ken Sain, managing director of Professional Services at Boeing Commercial Aviation Services.
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