Sentient has developed a comprehensive analytic approach to safety through our detailed online, real-time database. This system consolidates information with data accrued from seven sources and contains over 90 million records. It is continually updated, with most fields updated daily. This enables us to perform multiple, automated safety checks with over 30 variables confirmed and validated before every trip. These sources cover data traditionally available to all providers, as well as information from custom reporting tools and data pulls specifically requested by and created for Sentient by both the FAA and ARG/US.
Through the Sentient Certification process and our ongoing relationships with each participating operator, we gather a significant amount of direct information and records. This information supplements the data collected from external sources. This can include more detailed pilot experience and training information and documentation, additional crew-member background information, operations specifications data, as well as aircraft maintenance records and logbook entries. Additional reviews cover operator health and maturity with vital statistics such as pilot attrition, identification/placement of key management (post-holders), certificate-based performance history and background checking of Carrier’s relationship with, and accountability to, the FAA.
Sentient co-developed the TripCHEQ monitoring system with ARG/US to conduct evaluations of each flight. Today, TripCHEQ is still part of our overall safety process. Multiple times prior to each trip, our system receives the continuously updated information from our database including:
FAA and NTSB actions
Pilot-In-Command and Second-In-Command records, certifications and flight time experience qualifications
Pilots’ medical class
Aircraft insurance
Operational control of aircraft
Aircraft certification status
If at any time a report indicates that a participating operator, pilot or aircraft does not comply with all our safety requirements, Sentient will arrange an alternate aircraft or operator to complete the trip. Sentient also conducts a final safety check 30 minutes prior to the flight to confirm our standards are met.
Data collected includes: the Department of Transportation (“DOT”), the FAA, the NTSB, and the Aviation Safety Reporting System databases. The information from these sources then goes through a real-time integration with data leveraged through ARG/US into our own internal application.
