A flight risk assessment tool, scored before every departure
In 50 words
A flight risk assessment tool, or FRAT, scores a flight’s risk from pilot, aircraft, environment and external factors before it departs. In eAviora each answer carries a weight, the total falls into a band, and the band decides who must authorize the flight and whether a mitigation or a no-go is required.
At a glance
The module, on one sheet
- Suite
- Safety Management · Safety Operations
- Catalogs
- FAA, with the 14 CFR 135.617 content; EASA, with fatigue and the destination aerodrome category
- Records
- SMS-FRAT assessments, one per flight
- Stages
- Draft, Score, Authorize, Fly
- Bands
- Low, Medium and High by default, each with the approver it requires
- Works with
- Aerodrome Risk Assessment, Hazards, Safety Performance Indicators
What it does
Four things, done on the record
Factors you can tune
Start from the FAA or EASA catalog, adjust weights and add factors; the mandated factors stay.
The band sets the signature
Each band requires its own approver, read from the signer’s role rather than typed in.
A day’s flying at once
Draft an assessment for every scheduled flight in a window, skipping flights that already have one.
Weather, suggested
eAvy reads the destination’s METAR and TAF and suggests the weather factors; a person accepts them.
In the product
A flight risk assessment, scored
- The answer to each factor, and the band the total falls in.
- The go, mitigate or no-go decision, and who signed it.
- How long the authorization holds before the flight must be authorized again.
The rule it holds
A skipped factor is not a zero.
Every factor must be answered before authorization, so an unanswered one cannot lower the band.
On the graph
What it links to
Questions buyers ask
Short answers
Can we use our own risk factors?
Yes. Start from the FAA or EASA catalog, change weights and responses, and add factors of your own. The factors the regulation mandates cannot be removed.
Who can release a high-risk flight?
Only the approver the band requires. A conditional band also needs a mitigation on the record, or the decision is a no-go.
What if the flight is delayed?
An authorization holds until 2 hours after the scheduled departure, never more than 24 hours after signature. Once it lapses, the flight is authorized again before it is recorded as flown.
See Flight Risk Assessment on your own records
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