--- title: "Aviation Safety Management System Software | FlightAtom" description: "Aviation safety management system software for occurrence reporting, risk, audits, and corrective action. Explore AURORA Ai, a standalone SMS and QMS." canonical: https://www.flightatom.com/solutions/airline-safety-management-system-software.html last_updated: 2026-10-20 publisher: FlightAtom --- # Aviation SMS software: Give every safety action a record to follow. AURORA Ai brings safety and quality workflows into its own accountable workspace. TRACE Ai addresses focused investigation work, and PHAROS Ai, in development, is being built for flight data monitoring. Both are independent products. ## In brief: What is aviation safety management system software? Aviation safety management system (SMS) software keeps the records of an SMS connected: occurrence and hazard reports, risk assessments, audits, investigations, corrective actions, and the evidence that each was closed. It supports the four SMS components defined by ICAO Annex 19, which are safety policy and objectives, safety risk management, safety assurance, and safety promotion. AURORA Ai is FlightAtom's standalone SMS and QMS product. - **[AURORA Ai](https://www.flightatom.com/products/aurora.html):** Aviation SMS and QMS software - **[TRACE Ai](https://www.flightatom.com/products/trace.html):** Aviation safety investigation software - **[PHAROS Ai](https://www.flightatom.com/products/flightdata.html):** Flight data monitoring (FDM) software in development ## Where it fits: Put the right product in the workflow. ### Manage safety and quality Follow occurrence reports, risk assessments, audits, corrective actions, and assurance work in AURORA Ai. [Explore AURORA Ai](https://www.flightatom.com/products/aurora.html) ### Investigate with context Organize case evidence, draft each stage, and run AI phone interviews in TRACE Ai. [Explore TRACE Ai](https://www.flightatom.com/products/trace.html) ### Examine recorded flight data Explore PHAROS Ai flight-event triage, parameter traces, and analyst review. [Explore PHAROS Ai](https://www.flightatom.com/products/flightdata.html) ## Evaluation: What to check before you choose. Use the same questions for every product you compare, and ask to see each answer in the product. **Evaluation checklist for aviation SMS software** | What to check | Why it matters | How FlightAtom approaches it | | --- | --- | --- | | Report to closure | A report that cannot be followed to its outcome weakens the reporting culture. | AURORA Ai classifies occurrences, links related records, and publishes governed closure feedback to the reporter. | | Risk decisions | Risk acceptance needs a named authority and the evidence it relied on. | Hazards, assessments, and barriers are connected, and changes, acceptance, and closure pass through recorded authority and independent approval. | | Audit to corrective action | A finding is only closed when the corrective action is shown to work. | Audits record clause-linked findings with drafted corrective action plans, and a failed checklist item raises a finding automatically. On a safety case, each action is verified by someone other than its owner and monitored for effectiveness before the Safety Manager and Accountable Manager sign off. | | Management of change | New rules and operational changes introduce risk before they introduce benefit. | AURORA Ai traces clause-level regulatory changes to affected records and drafts a management-of-change workflow for review. | | Evidence for the authority | An auditor asks for the record and the proof that it has not been altered. | Regulator dossiers combine a readable PDF with a verification manifest tied to the governed source records. | | AI under control | Assistance must not become an unaccountable decision. | AI drafts and classifies with citations under tenant policies and kill switches. Approvals stay with accountable people. | ## The products: Explore the software. Safety investigations ### [TRACE Ai](https://www.flightatom.com/products/trace.html) ![TRACE Ai investigation page with synthetic demonstration data for a fictional unstable approach and go-around of flight DEM 214 at Demo Field. The investigation guide lists eight stages from Plan & prepare to Review & follow up: Plan & prepare is ticked and tagged Autopilot draft, and Collect & debrief is open with its purpose, working outputs and working notes headed Autopilot draft. Below, the Autopilot panel shows its eight-stage strip, the status Waiting for the interviews before analysing, and a Waiting for you note that one person's questions need approval before anyone is contacted.](https://www.flightatom.com/products/screens/current/trace-1-20261011.webp) An eight-stage investigation method, an autopilot that drafts each stage, AI phone interviews with Tracy, and cited HFACS and TEM analysis of the accounts. Explore TRACE Ai Standalone SMS / QMS ### [AURORA Ai](https://www.flightatom.com/products/aurora.html) ![AURORA Ai Today view for a safety manager, with synthetic demonstration data. The Aurora brief titled Operations handover, tagged Critical watch and 88% confidence, summarises 12 active signals at a critical watch level above a strip of 9 open occurrences, 2 this month, 5 open risks and 5 high risks, with a Build handover button. Quick actions read Report occurrence, Add action and My actions. Below, the Queue shows For me 40, Delegated and Inbox 38 with module facets and overdue items such as an emergency response plan to read and corrective actions; on the right are critical Signals and a Health grid of registers by urgency.](https://www.flightatom.com/products/screens/current/aurora-1-20261020.webp) A standalone SMS and QMS with confidential reporting, bowtie risk on live barrier checks, gated closure and dossiers a regulator can verify. Explore AURORA Ai Flight data monitoring ### [PHAROS Ai](https://www.flightatom.com/products/flightdata.html) ![PHAROS Ai triage queue of new events for demo tails N101DM to N104DM, such as unstable approaches at the 1000 ft and 500 ft gates, high energy on approach and flap overspeeds, each with severity, date, flight phase, age, state and a triage score bar on medium and low events (a dash on high ones). The footer reads 1-50 of 247 new and 3,055 data gaps excluded. The preview for a medium unstable approach on KSAV to KBOS shows its dossier in draft, captured values such as 141 kt at the gate, and the analyse run, event set, dataframe and decoder behind it. Synthetic demonstration data.](https://www.flightatom.com/products/screens/current/flightdata-1-20261011.webp) ARINC 717 decoding that keeps the data around a damaged span, events tied to their recording, a keyboard triage queue, measurements and SPIs, and crew identity released only on FDM Agreement terms. Explore PHAROS Ai · In development ## Related guides: Read the background. Plain-language guides to the practice behind the software. - [What is an aviation SMS?](https://www.flightatom.com/resources/what-is-an-aviation-sms.html) - [Aviation SMS requirements: ICAO, FAA, and EASA](https://www.flightatom.com/resources/aviation-sms-requirements-icao-faa-easa.html) - [FAA Part 135 SMS requirements](https://www.flightatom.com/resources/faa-part-135-sms-requirements.html) - [Part 135 SMS readiness checklist](https://www.flightatom.com/resources/part-135-sms-readiness-checklist.html) - [What is flight data monitoring?](https://www.flightatom.com/resources/what-is-flight-data-monitoring.html) - [SMS software for OTAR operators](https://www.flightatom.com/solutions/aviation-sms-software-otar-operators.html) ## Questions & answers: Common questions about aviation SMS software. ### Is SMS software required by aviation regulators? No regulation requires a specific tool. Regulators require the SMS itself: defined processes, records, and evidence. Software helps when reports, risk assessments, audits, and corrective actions must stay linked and reviewable as volume grows. ### What should aviation SMS software include? Occurrence and hazard reporting, a risk register with assessments and controls, audits and findings, corrective actions with effectiveness checks, management of change, document control, and an audit trail that shows who decided what and when. ### What is the difference between SMS software and QMS software? SMS software manages safety risk: hazards, occurrences, risk assessments, and safety actions. QMS software manages conformity: audits, findings, and corrective actions against procedures and standards. AURORA Ai combines both so the records share one governed workflow. ### Does AURORA Ai need the other FlightAtom products? No. AURORA Ai is a standalone SMS and QMS. TRACE Ai and PHAROS Ai address dedicated investigation and flight-data work as independent products. ## See FlightAtom in action: Start with your workflow. A focused walkthrough, with the people and decisions that matter to your team. [Request a demo](https://www.flightatom.com/#contact) --- Source: https://www.flightatom.com/solutions/airline-safety-management-system-software.html Contact FlightAtom: hello@flightatom.com · Request a demo: https://www.flightatom.com/#contact