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Versioning and Historiography in Automated Generic Electronic Flight Log Book Transfer

Authors:
Arne Koschel
Carsten Kleiner
Björn Koschel

Keywords: System integration; versioning; historiography; aerospace domain; generic interface; flexible data mapping

Abstract:
The automated transfer of flight logbook information from aircrafts into aircraft maintenance systems leads to reduced ground and maintenance time and is thus desirable from an economical point of view. Until recently, flight logbooks have not been managed electronically in aircrafts or at least data transfer from aircraft to ground maintenance system has been executed manually, since only latest aircraft types (e.g., Airbus A380, Boeing 777) support electronic logbooks. This paper introduces a top level distributed system architecture of a generic system for automated flight logbook data transfer. The system includes a generic mapping component that facilitates flexible mappings between aircraft logbook systems as Input and aircraft maintenance systems in the backend. As its main contribution this paper details versioning and historiography concepts for our system. The former makes it possible to deal with different versions of input and output systems in a single mapping component. The latter explains the practically important aspect of historizing data in order to comply with legal regulations. Due to its flexible design the mapping component could also be used for other domains with similar requirements.

Pages: 75 to 80

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: May 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-270-7

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 27, 2013 to June 1, 2013