Cruise Segment Data from the NASA DASHlink Dataset Extracted and Processed by the Initial Release of SCOOP (v1.0.0)

This dataset provides extracted cruise-segment data from an operational fleet of 35 regional jets. The data are suitable for aircraft performance monitoring and potentially other applications.

In commercial operations, most fuel is consumed during cruise, when aerodynamic and propulsive forces are approximately in equilibrium, and deviations from expected fuel use are more readily detected. This dataset was created using the SCOOP computational framework for extracting and analyzing flight segments in steady-state cruise.

An open-access operational dataset from the NASA DASHlink provided raw input data in the form of parameters from time histories of whole flights over three years of operation of 35 regional jets.

A sliding window approach identifies intervals meeting defined cruise criteria, followed by analysis of aerodynamic and propulsive characteristics, and computation of statistically meaningful fuel performance metrics.

This work addresses a key research gap: the lack of large volumes of high-quality, analysis-ready data to support advanced techniques for applications such as aircraft performance monitoring.

Raw data: B. Matthews, Nov. 29, 2012. “Sample Flight Data,” distributed by NASA DASHlink, https://c3.ndc.nasa.gov/dashlink/projects/85/

The cruise segments were extracted and derived parameters added according to: L. V. Bays and M. W. Grenn, "A Framework for Extracting Stable Cruise from Operational Observed Performance (SCOOP)", unpublished, June, 2025.