365 FlySto: Bringing Airline-like Flight Analysis to General Aviation
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4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Max Trescott talks with Patrick Lienhart about FlySto.net, a platform bringing Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) to general aviation (GA). FOQA, widely used by airlines, collects and analyzes flight data to enhance safety by identifying trends before they lead to incidents. FlySto applies similar principles, allowing GA pilots to review their flights, compare data, and track performance improvements.
FlySto offers multiple perspectives, including 2D/3D views, cockpit HUD, and graphical analysis. Pilots can upload flight data from various avionics, ADS-B track logs, and navigation apps. A key feature is approach scoring, which compares pilot performance to fleet averages and provides landing analysis.
FlySto also includes customizable flag rules for monitoring exceedances, aircraft performance analysis against POH data, and video integration to overlay flight data onto recorded videos. ADS-B traffic data enhances situational awareness with collision detection and wake turbulence tracking. Additionally, archived weather data helps pilots review conditions during debriefs.
Currently free, FlySto plans to introduce a subscription model with affordable pricing for advanced features. Pilots can explore the platform at FlySto.net to enhance safety and performance in GA flying.
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| 0:00.0 | Airline flying is one of the safest forms of transportation in the world. |
| 0:05.9 | So wouldn't it be great if you could use some of the techniques used by the airlines |
| 0:09.5 | to improve the quality and safety of your own flying? |
| 0:13.4 | Now, a cornerstone of airline safety is flight data analysis. |
| 0:17.2 | And today we'll be talking about free software from flystow.net that lets you analyze flight data from virtually any aircraft type you fly. |
| 0:25.4 | So stick around and learn how you can collect data from your flights and use it to improve your flying. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk general aviation. |
| 0:34.7 | My name is Max Trescott. I've been flying for over 50 years on the author of |
| 0:38.2 | several books in the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year, and my mission is to help |
| 0:42.7 | you become the safest possible pilot. Last week in episode 364, we talked with Jim Goldfuss |
| 0:49.7 | about his transition to a second career flying charter for Plainscense. So if you didn't hear |
| 0:54.9 | that episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewstalk.com slash 364. And if you've |
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