What is FlySeer™?
FlySeer is a patent pending aviation safety and training aid. It monitors more things about the current status of your flight, more often than you can look at all the gauges. Since it monitors your current flight condition more quickly than you can, it’s very much like flying with a Virtual Safety Pilot. And since it knows what’s happening with your plane it can make intelligent suggestions about what you should do to correct errors, so it’s also very much like flying with a Virtual Flight Instructor.
How Does FlySeer Work?
It’s hard to explain, but very easy to work with, and an absolute joy to fly with!
Here’s a detailed explanation:
- FlySeer combines information from every available source, or “Sensor“, including: GPS data, information available from your existing avionics and aircraft systems and FlySeer’s own external sensors. This results in a much more complete, integrated view of what’s happening with your aircraft.
- The combination of all current combined data from all the “Sensors” defines an “Aircraft Condition“. Aircraft Conditions are stored, and change over time.
- Individual or sets of Aircraft Conditions over time can be combined into “Rules” that you (or your flying club or your company or we have some detailed samples built into FlySeer) want to be notified about. For example, if you are going very slow, very close to the ground with a large bank angle, you are setting up for a stall/spin accident). So you might set a Rule that says if I’m going less than Vy for my aircraft at less than 1200′ AGL and my bank angle exceeds 30°, let me know!
- FlySeer lets you know with “Alerts“, but alerts can be much more than just a buzzer or visual light. Since FlySeer knows quite a bit about the state your aircraft is in, it can let you know not just there’s a problem, but also let you know that your Aircraft Condition could soon lead to a problem, and what to do about it. In the example above where we are slow, low and banked excessively, the first correcting action you want is likely for Flight-Coach to tell you “Reduce Bank”.
- Rules and Alerts can be combined in multiple fashions. For example, as a training aid, when doing a steep turn, you need to maintain bank angle at 45° +- 5° and altitude above 1500′ and remain +-100′ from the starting altitude. Flight-Coach can monitor and log all of those conditions and more, so you can see training progress, and know exactly when you are ready for your check ride.
