NEXT GENERATION THREAT & ERROR MANAGEMENT

Adaptive TEM

Dynamic Threat & Error Management for Modern Flight Operations

Adaptive TEM continuously evaluates operational, environmental, and procedural factors to identify and generate a structured, context-aware threat-based briefing tailored to the current operational situation.

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What is Adaptive TEM

Adaptive TEM
A Dynamic Evolution of Threat & Error Management

Adaptive TEM is a structured, data-driven evolution of traditional Threat and Error Management (TEM). Rather than relying solely on static briefings, manually interpreted information, or generic threat lists, Adaptive TEM continuously evaluates operational conditions and dynamically generates a structured operational threat picture tailored to the current situation. The system transforms fragmented operational data into context-aware operational awareness by continuously analyzing operational and environmental factors. The resulting output is a dynamic TEM briefing designed to help crews and operational departments rapidly identify operational threats, prioritize mitigations, and maintain a stronger operational resilience as conditions evolve.

Future · Adaptive TEM

Dynamic threat and risk evaluation

Operationally tailored TEM for every flight phase

Continuously updated with AIRAC and operational data

Standardized, efficient, and consistent briefing delivery

Verifiable crew briefing engagement and records

Real-time adaptive TEM generation

Data-driven risk scoring and prioritization

Why Adaptive TEM

Modern Aviation Does Not Lack Data.
It Lacks Operational Clarity.

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Modern flight operations rely on vast amounts of operational data originating from multiple systems, formats, and sources. Weather, NOTAMs, airport briefings, terrain considerations, runway limitations, airspace complexity, and operational procedures must all be interpreted and transformed into meaningful operational awareness — often within limited time and under increasing operational pressure.

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As operational complexity grows, the challenge is no longer access to information. The challenge is rapidly identifying which operational threats actually matter in the current situation.

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This process is frequently fragmented, manually intensive, and highly dependent on individual crew experience, cognitive abilities, and available preparation time. As a result, operational threats may remain unidentified until workload and time pressure are already elevated.

Operational risk is often created in the space between scattered information sources, increasing workload, and limited time available to build an accurate TEM picture. The friction required to search, interpret, prioritize, and mentally connect operational information can itself become a contributing operational threat.

Who it's for

Built for Safety and Operational Efficiency

Adaptive TEM supports every part of the operation, on the flight deck and across the organization.

OPS

Flight Operations

Standardize operational threat identification and briefing quality across fleets, routes, and operational environments. Adaptive TEM supports more consistent operational preparation while helping crews anticipate and mitigate operational challenges before workload and operational complexity increase.

SMS

Safety Management

Transform operational threat awareness into a more measurable and structured Safety Management capability. Adaptive TEM supports operational governance, traceable briefing activity, and more standardized operational risk evaluation across the organization.

TRG

Training & Standards

Strengthen operational preparedness by exposing crews to structured operational threat awareness aligned with real operational complexity, operational variability, and evolving operational conditions.

FLT

Flight Crews

Receive a clear, prioritized operational threat picture tailored to the airport, runway, and approach being considered. Adaptive TEM helps crews rapidly identify what matters MOST in the current operational situation and apply mitigations with improved situational awareness and workload management.

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Learn how Adaptive TEM supports dynamic operational risk awareness, structured operational threat evaluation, and scalable TEM standardization across modern airline operations.

EligibilityAirline and Operator Management

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Cost to participateNo fee · beta period

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Traditional Threat & Error Management (TEM) is primarily a training and operational philosophy that relies heavily on flight crews to identify, assess, and mitigate operational threats in real-world operations. In practice, this process is often influenced by factors such as limited preparation time, fragmented operational information, workload, operational pressure, varying experience levels, and the challenge of rapidly interpreting large amounts of operational data. To support crews, airlines may develop airport briefings, risk assessments, and operational guidance material. However, these processes are frequently manual, resource-intensive, difficult to continuously maintain, and often limited by static content that may not fully reflect the current operational situation. Adaptive TEM extends the traditional TEM framework by introducing a structured, continuously evolving operational threat evaluation system that supports the entire TEM process — from operational threat production and standardization to dissemination, identification, prioritization, and mitigation support. By continuously analyzing operational, environmental, and procedural inputs such as weather conditions, runway configuration, NOTAMs, terrain environment, operational limitations, and approach characteristics, Adaptive TEM dynamically generates a context-aware operational threat picture tailored to the airport, runway, and approach being considered. The result is a more structured, scalable, operationally relevant, and continuously updated TEM process aligned with real operational conditions and modern airline operational complexity.

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Adaptive TEM is designed as an operational awareness and decision-support system built around existing Threat & Error Management philosophy. The system does not replace pilot judgment, operational procedures, or company decision-making processes.

Instead, Adaptive TEM helps crews and operational departments:

identify operational threats earlier
understand contributing operational factors
prioritize operational attention
significantly improve situational awareness and workload management

The objective is to support human-centered operational awareness while reducing the friction associated with manually interpreting fragmented operational data under time pressure.

Adaptive TEM is built around a proprietary operational evaluation engine designed to deliver structured, measurable, and evidence-based operational threat assessment. The system continuously analyzes more than 300 million operational data points across airports worldwide using high-quality operational and aeronautical datasets, including FMS-grade aeronautical data derived from Lido’s SkyData infrastructure, together with operational weather, NOTAMs, runway, approach, terrain, airspace, and environmental data sources. Operational threat evaluations within Adaptive TEM are not generated through probabilistic or generative AI reasoning. Instead, operational outputs are produced through structured operational logic, deterministic evaluation formulas, contextual operational rules, and traceable operational data relationships aligned with Threat & Error Management principles.

This allows operational evaluations and resulting threat outputs to remain:

measurable
evidence-based
operationally explainable
operationally repeatable
and traceable down to the individual operational input and evaluation logic involved

Artificial Intelligence is used selectively to support and streamline certain administrative and back-office maintenance processes, such as operational content handling, NOTAM interpretation assistance, and operational data management workflows. AI is not responsible for generating operational threat conclusions or replacing the structured evaluation engine itself. This architecture ensures that Adaptive TEM maintains operational transparency, consistency, and auditability while avoiding the unpredictability and non-deterministic behavior associated with purely AI-generated operational assessment systems.

Adaptive TEM is designed to support safer, more consistent, and more operationally aware flight operations.

Potential operational benefits may include:

improved situational awareness
reduced operational surprise and startle
more consistent operational briefings
improved workload management
improved operational reassessment during changing conditions
reduced time spent interpreting fragmented operational information
improved diversion and delay management
stronger procedural compliance
reduced manual effort associated with airport risk assessment and briefing maintenance

By helping crews and operational departments recognize operational complexity earlier, Adaptive TEM supports more proactive operational management across increasingly dynamic operational environments.

Adaptive TEM is designed as part of the next generation of Airport Briefing. The system extends Airport Briefing beyond static operational content by introducing continuously evolving operational threat evaluation driven by operational, environmental, and procedural data. By integrating airport intelligence, runway and approach analysis, weather conditions, operational restrictions, NOTAMs, terrain evaluation, and contextual TEM logic into a unified operational framework, Adaptive TEM transforms Airport Briefing into a dynamic operational risk-awareness platform designed for modern airline operations.