Beta-Test Signup – Pilot | Choreo Electronics

Beta-Test Signup – Pilot

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 an instructor, please follow this link to an instructor specific form 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 a pilot, we ask that you commit to fly at least 10 hours over the period from March 1 to April 30. We also ask that at least three of those flights be flights where you safely practice slow flight and slips. The more, the better! The more you fly, the more improvement you will see in your recognition skills. (Or the higher your score will be, if you’re already perfect!) We would like you to keep some notes about the flights you take in order to close the loop on what FlightCoach will be detecting.
  - 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.

Name *

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Email *

Phone Number *

Mailing Address

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 - approximately *

PIC Hours - approximately *

Instrument Hours - approximately *

What do you fly?

Tell us the type of flying you do: travel, sightseeing, maneuvers, and so on. What type of plane do you fly? Do you fly more than one model of plane? Please be descriptive so we can get a sense of your usual flights. We will ask that you do at least three flights safely practicing slow flight and slips.

Questions / Suggestions

Please use this field to ask any questions and note any concerns or suggestions that you have so far. We'll do our best to respond to you personally and also in documentation that will help others.

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