What is FERMS?
The NBAA Forum for Enhanced Reliability and Maintainability Standards (FERMS) is a web-based tool that provides business aircraft manufacturers and operators with real-time information about business aircraft maintenance and performance. This database is available only to NBAA Members and select industry participants. FERMS defines a framework for measuring the reliability of business aircraft. Strict formulas and definitions describe these measures in terms of dispatch reliability and operational availability. By collecting aircraft maintenance information submitted by aircraft operators via the web, NBAA can present aircraft technical data based on these new, industry-standard definitions. Operators can enter relevant maintenance events for their aircraft, tracking the number of flight hours and landings at the time of each event. Using this information, and the dispatch reliability and operational availability formulas developed by NBAA, operators can view compiled FERMS data for th