ONBASS is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP), partly funded by the European Commission under the Aeronautic and Space thematic priority of the 6th Framework Programme. The project aims at significantly improving flight safety by introducing the Principle of Active System Safety (PASS) for General Aviation in Europe. ONBASS started in January 2005 and is due for completion at the end of December 2007.

The final goal of the project is to design, develop, test and validate an on-board active real-time data processing system that will monitor flight related parameters and react in the case of a proliferation of risk to the aircraft or its occupants. The system will recognise undesirable trends or patterns in data relating to the various aircraft agents (aircraft, systems, pilot) by analysing and comparing current flight data against previously accumulated aircraft-specific behavioural data. As a result, timely interventions could be made in order to eliminate the associated risk(s) or to minimise the severity of the corresponding effects. In addition, the system will offer invaluable and comprehensive data for post-flight analysis upon which aviation safety bodies could base and/or redesign safety policies and procedures.

• ‘Test Automation for the Oberon and Minos Frameworks’ from the ‘Oberon Day 2007’, Zurich, on June 29, 2007.
• ‘Analytical Synthesis of Aircraft Control Laws’ , from the 2nd European Conference for Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS), Brussels, July 1-6, 2007.
• ‘Applying the Principle of Active Safety to Aviation’ , from the 2nd European Conference for Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS), Brussels, July 1-6, 2007.
• ‘Principle of Active System Safety For Aviation: Challenges, Supportive Theory, Implementation, Application And Future’, from the MAKS Airshow, astec’ 07: “New Challenges in Aeronautics” Conference, August 19–23, 2007, Moscow.
• ‘Active Safety for Aviation’ , from the 6th INO Workshop, Eurocontrol Experimental Centre (EEC), 4th-6th of December 2007.