What is FlySeer™
FlySeer™ is a patents pending flight safety and training system to alert pilots to unsafe or non-standard conditions and efficiently “coach” them to correct those conditions.
Who is FlySeer™ for
Pilots, Student Pilots, CFIs, Flying Clubs, Aviation Companies, Charter companies, FBOs, anyone who wants to increase aviation safety or log and measure pilot or aircraft performance.
Why FlySeer™
A Seer is defined as one who can see what the future holds.
Most accidents don’t happen from a single issue. They happen from a chain of events, such as being too slow, and banking too much, while too low to the ground. It’s the combination of issues that can lead to disaster.
FlySeer is designed to be able to see all aspects of an aircraft’s condition across all it’s systems simultaneously, and even include information outside of the aircraft condition, such as altitude AGL. This gives FlySeer an unmatched ability to not only sense and predict potential safety issues before they occur, but also to recommend what action the pilot should take to “break the chain” heading towards a serious issue. FlySeer increases safety through a MUCH richer set of pilot alerts, based on ALL the available information about an aircraft’s current condition.
Prototype Video
Below is a video produced as part of FlySeer’s entry for the EAA Innovation Prize that shows an early prototype of FlySeer and how it can detect and alert for the “Stall/Spin on Turn to Final” Loss of Control Accident early in the accident chain, as it develops.
The most common General Aviation (GA) fatal accident per FAA statistics* is the stall. Typical GA pilot alerts for stall are the stall alert and/or the Angle of Attack (AOA) indicator, and they do alert when the aircraft is stalled. However, the stall is not the primary issue of these fatal accidents. All pilots are trained what happens in a stall, and how to recover from a stall. What makes these accidents fatal is they often occur at an altitude too low to make recovery possible.
Here’s how FlySeer solves this problem with a richer alert on landing:
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- Altitude below 1500′ AGL
- Airspeed below 120 kts (for our test A36 aircraft)
- Aircraft Bank Angle over 30°
When all 3 of the Conditions above are exceeded, and BEFORE the impending stall or stall/spin, FlySeer could either sound an alert or instruct pilot to reduce bank angle to avoid a stall/spin.
* According to FAA Fact Sheet dated July 30, 2018 at: https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=21274
The FAA’s goal is to reduce the GA fatal accident rate by 10 percent over a 10-year period (2009-2018). Inflight loss of control – mainly stalls – accounts for the largest number of GA fatal accidents. Although the fatal accident rate is declining, last year (FY17) 347 people still died in 209 general aviation fatal accidents.