Reporting, visualisation and analysis of fleet life management information

Abstract

The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) operates several weapon systems, such as Chinook and Apache helicopters, F-16 fighters and C-130 Hercules transport aircrafts. For these weapon systems the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory NLR performs several loads and usage monitoring programs. For these programs masses of flight and administrative data are collected and stored in multiple, heterogeneous weapon system specific databases. This paper presents the design, usage and benefits of a data integration layer that provides a uniform view on all weapon system databases.