Systems and methods to determine maintenance-focused aircraft data recording frame configurations

Systems and methods (200) for formatting aviation data for improved aircraft fault detection, diagnosis, and maintenance are provided. The method (200) includes determining (202) a plurality of available parameters associated with an aircraft. The method includes matching (204) the plurality of available parameters against a plurality of desired parameters to identify a plurality of matched parameters that are both desired and available. The plurality of matched parameters are useful to perform fault diagnosis and prognosis for the aircraft. The method includes determining (210) a priority level for each of the plurality of matched parameters. The method includes creating (212) a standardized maintenance optimized data frame configuration based at least in part on the plurality of matched parameters and the priority level for each of the plurality of matched parameters. A desired sample rate for each parameter can also be used as a factor in the matching process, with matched parameters ...