On every one of Emirates’ 470 flights that depart each day, all pilots actively use GE FlightPulse. Since it was introduced, FlightPulse has been one of the key tools supporting Emirates’ fuel and emissions reduction initiatives, in addition to improving on key safety metrics.
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GE’s FlightPulse provides pilots with flight summary data from their individual missions, as well as information on how they operated the aircraft so they can analyse their performance related to key efficiency and safety measures and review and plan for the next flight with data driven insights. Emirates and GE have developed a customised dashboard with defined KPIs and analysis tailored to the airline’s requirements and operational averages and is available to all pilots and management. FlightPulse also supports Emirates with photo-realistic custom replays of simulations of entire flights, displaying all the operational procedures implemented by pilots in sequential order of the flight path, matching their own flight deck experience.
Emirates initiated the FlightPulse project in 2021, working closely with GE to customise and enhance the tool for its requirements. Today the application has been meticulously enhanced and covers four key areas: fuel efficiency, safety metrics, operational data & analytics, and research accompanied with insights and statistics for every route on the Emirates network.
While this tool is used by other airlines, Emirates was the first airline to deploy it to the entirety of its over 4,000-strong pilot community, keeping them connected to a wealth of airline-specific and individual historical data in one place. Through this highly intuitive tool, pilots are empowered to access their own efficiency metrics, benchmarking themselves to the averages of their peers following every flight they operate, in addition to the ability to retrieve key operational insights for future flight planning.
Emirates continues to heavily invest in a connected flight deck, and has recently gone paperless, consolidating its operational flight plan and briefing package for each flight through an enhanced version of mBriefing from Lido Systems, a simple application on every pilot’s iPad which presents relevant information for each flight that can be downloaded easily. Pilots can monitor flight progress and join up information through other apps that provide information like enroute weather information, including turbulence forecasts. Historically, this information was distributed on paper to flight deck teams. The airline estimates that 15 million pieces of paper will be saved through the process.