- App allows commercial and business pilots to gain key safety and fuel insights from their own flight data
- Latest milestones buoyed by recent growth and addition of newer App features
- 25 airlines and 20 corporate operators now using FlightPulse® Pilot App
AUSTIN, TX – Monday, October 21, 2024 -- GE Aerospace, Software as a Service (SaaS) announced today the number of commercial and business pilots using FlightPulse® recently topped 40,000 and is on track to surpass 50,000 pilots in 2025. The software platform has experienced strong growth over the past year, as the SaaS team has more recently added new App features that include:
- A 3D animation module that matches a pilot’s flight deck experience;
- A Preflight module to support pre-departure planning; and, most recently,
- A Home module, to allow airline administrators to distribute in-app announcements to their pilots.
Andrew Coleman, General Manager of GE Aerospace, SaaS, says, the new App features are a big part of why more and more pilots are signing up for FlightPulse®, stating, “FlightPulse® has always been an App for pilots that is informed by pilots, and our team continues to find innovative ways to expand the data and insights pilots can gain to help them fly more safely and more sustainably. We’re thrilled to have recently exceeded the 40,000 mark and are setting our sights on 50,000 pilots in the not-to-distant future.”
Coleman added that the level of pilot engagement with FlightPulse® has been very strong. The App is currently averaging about 3,000 pilots logging in every day and just over 20,000 pilots logging in every month. On any given day, FlightPulse® processes an average of 2.5 million flights to display results for pilots.
Coleman said, “The strong engagement we are seeing with pilots illustrates the valuable insights they are deriving from the App. Pilots using FlightPulse® is very analogous to how a runner might use a fitness watch to improve their run times or an individual using a weight loss app to be healthier. It’s an app they can access on their iPads to become better pilots.”
Mary Harshbarger, Aviation Safety Program Sr. Manager at Clay Lacy Aviation, whose pilots have been using FlightPulse®, credits the App with contributing to both the safety and overall improvement of their flight operations, stating, “FlightPulse® is a powerful safety and continuous improvement tool. We are now confidentially putting our FOQA data in the hands of those who can best use it, the pilots themselves. They not only have access to their own data, but also to deidentified industry data, providing a real-time snapshot of their performance compared to the industry. With the power behind that industry data, this also becomes a tool that helps them prepare for upcoming flights by highlighting the most common events at both their destination and departure airports.”
Coleman explained that FlightPulse® includes pre- and post-flight modules that provide key safety and sustainability insights about flight paths for pilots, both familiar and unfamiliar, to help pilots improve how they fly. “We have found that pilots really like being able to study flight routes they are unfamiliar with or haven’t flown in a while. Just like when you’re driving a car, we always seem to drive better when the roads and traffic patterns are more familiar to us on a given trip or outing.”
The Preflight module was just made available to business jet customers a few months ago. Through this new module, pilots can review deidentified historical flight data to become more familiar with the airspace, seasonal weather conditions, air traffic controller tendencies, and pertinent safety data for airports that are less familiar to them. Because FlightPulse® serves as an extension of GE Aerospace’s C-FOQA program for the business jet community, business jet operators can leverage anonymized safety data-sharing from across the industry to learn from others in cases where they are planning routes they’ve never operated before.
About GE Aerospace
GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE) is a global aerospace propulsion, services, and systems leader with an installed base of approximately 44,000 commercial and 26,000 military aircraft engines. With a global team of 52,000 employees building on more than a century of innovation and learning, GE Aerospace is committed to inventing the future of flight, lifting people up, and bringing them home safely. Learn more about how GE Aerospace and its partners are defining flight for today, tomorrow and the future at www.geaerospace.com.
GE Aerospace software solutions put aviation data to work with products and services that empower airlines to run robust and resilient operations. Flight Ops, Tech Ops, and Maintenance and Reliability Analytics solutions from GE Aerospace help aircraft operators enhance safety and efficiency, reduce operational disruptions, improve passenger experience and make better decisions regarding real-time fleet health.
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