Alternatively, it must be acknowledged that individual failures, which could potentially lead to dramatic events, occur more often than we think. This means that a safety study must not only focus on what appears to be the main causes of accidents, but also pay attention to all “accidents facilitators”, and take into consideration human factors issues.
Based on the analysis of existing accident reports, the FLYSAFE team will select the most relevant means to cope with the selected elements in the chain of events leading to aircraft accidents and incidents. The selected means will encompass all aspects in the scope of FLYSAFE from sensors to HMI: technical as well as procedural, taking into account operational and human factors.
Based on this analysis, the FLYSAFE team will define the means and the way to use them in the scope of the project. The resulting document is called the Operational Concept Definition (OCD).
This Operational Concept Definition addresses:

• enhancing cockpit functions and information displays (e.g. situation awareness),
• creating new HMI features,
• introducing new sensors and detection algorithms,
• integrating them in flight procedures.

The OCD will be used as input for the specification in WP 1.2 and as input for the scenarios definition in WP 6.1.

It is important to ensure that the envisaged functions and systems will be accepted by the market. The market is defined as being the commercial air transport and related sectors such as service providers.
For that purpose, the FLYSAFE team will perform both:

• a qualitative study of the market acceptability,
• a quantitative study, where a first cost estimate of each requirement will be made

A market analysis will be performed to assess the acceptable market price.
This will allow identifying the functions and systems that will clearly be marketable in the future, and avoid that the team works on avenues with no credible exploitation plan.

Leader: NLR