Beta-Test Signup – Instructor

Please use this form to sign up for our beta test of FlightCoach. We’ll send you more information after we receive your form. If you’re not an instructor, please follow this link to a form for pilots to sign up.

In a nutshell, FlightCoach is a learning aid that helps pilots become better at using their own senses to see and avoid potential loss-of-control situations. FlightCoach teaches pilots to innately recognize the sounds of slow flight and the feeling of uncoordinated flight by providing clear yet unobtrusive visual and audio indications of these flight regimes. As their skills develop, pilots can preempt FlightCoach feedback by simply double-tapping the device to acknowledge slow flight or signal that they are about to slip or skid the airplane. A simple scoring system incentivizes and tracks improvement over time. And FlightCoach is inexpensive, quick to set up, and easily portable from one airplane to another.

      • To participate in this beta test as an instructor, we ask that you fly with at least three different students and at least four hours with each of these students over the period from March 1 to April 30.  The more, the better! The more you fly with the test unit, the more improvement your students will see in their skills. We would like you to keep some notes about your students’ recognition of slow flight and uncoordinated flight in order to close the loop on what FlightCoach will be detecting.
      • We would also love it if you fly solo to experiment with FlightCoach, but that’s not strictly necessary if you mainly fly with students.
      • You’ll need a USB power supply (like a power bank or USB power in your airplane) and probably a little patience as we figure out the differences between all the planes we hope to support.
      • No installation is required. Just clip this device to a visor or any other kind of mount and go!
      • Full operational details will be given as we start mailing out the test units.

As a thank-you for your help, we will send you a production unit when we start manufacturing them. Of course, that’s all dependent on our tests going smoothly and the devices working as well as we hope they will! Regardless, the data you contribute will help in the overall goal: lowering the number of loss-of-control accidents in general aviation.

Please read this license agreement. You will be asked to accept the agreement before test units are mailed out.

Finally, we will do our best to provide you a beta-test unit, but we may not be able to select everyone who signs up since we have limited quantities of the test units. 

The address where you would like your beta-test FlightCoach mailed. We will ask that you mail the unit back when you're done so we can collect final data. We will include a prepaid return label.
Total hours as PIC in all types
Total hours instructing in all types
Please list your current students, where they are in their training, and roughly how many hours per week they are flying. Beta testing will being in March, so it's okay to guess at where you'll be then.
It's okay if this is not an exhaustive list. We just want to get a sense of the planes that we will be supporting in this beta test.
Please use this field to ask any questions or note any concerns or suggestions that you have so far. We'll do our best to respond to you personally but also in documentation that will help others.