Hi underfire,
Originally Posted by
underfire
Yes, there are several FAA sponsored programs that datamine. At least one company has an automated program that uses the flight recorder data.
An event, such as a wake encounter, windshear, or clear air turbulence, can be culled from the aircraft systems response (the g-rate, roll, etc).
This shows the significance of the effect and shows the pilot reaction, if any, to the event.
That doesn't surprise me in the slightest. It confirms my thoughts on the ability to correlate quantitative data to a fairly useful extent. What quantitative data can't do, however, is provide a comprehensive context for those correlations - and that's the crux of Zionstrat2's initial question.
The results were very interesting below 10,000 feet.
I bet - and I'd give a lot to have access to that data!
