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Customers need greater flexibility when defining Insights safety events. Rather than relying only on fixed, predefined rules, users should be able to create rules by combining multiple flight parameters and operational conditions.
The desired experience: User selects the primary parameter/event, defines the triggering criteria, applies additional conditions, selects the applicable aircraft, assigns severity, and specifies how long the conditions must persist before an event is generated, ability to layer rules on top of each other.
Users should be able to combine or layer multiple conditions within the same rule, including:
Duration / time
Altitude / AGL
Ground speed / airspeed where available
Pitch
Vertical speed / ascent / descent
G-loading
Pitch rate
Roll rate
Yaw rate
Specific aircraft or groups of aircraft
Primary and Secondary rule stacked within the same rule (Negative G Loading & Excessive Pitch Down)
For numerical parameters, the user should be able to choose logic such as:
Above: greater than a defined value
Below: less than a defined value
Between: within a defined minimum and maximum range
Rules should continue to support configurable Low, Medium, and High severity levels, with different thresholds for each severity.
Where multiple severity thresholds are met, the event should be classified using the highest applicable severity (example: stacked rules - low severity for primary rule + low severity for secondary rule occur = High or Medium Severity for entire rule).
Rule |
Example Criteria / Conditions |
|---|---|
Excessive Pitch Down |
Pitch < -40°, plus configurable duration |
Excessive Descent Rate Above 500 ft AGL |
Vertical speed threshold, aircraft >500 ft AGL, optional ground-speed condition, duration |
Excessive Pitch Up |
Pitch > +40°, altitude condition, duration |
Excessive Yaw Rate |
Yaw rate > defined threshold, duration |
Extended Low-Level Flight / High Ground Speed |
Altitude between approximately 200–300 ft AGL, ground-speed threshold, duration |
Negative G Loading |
Example severity thresholds: Low <0.6G, Medium <0.4G, High <0.2G, duration |
Positive G Loading |
Increasing positive-G thresholds by severity; exact thresholds to be confirmed with customer |
Low-Level High Speed |
Ground-speed threshold + altitude threshold + duration |
Pitch Rate |
Example: Low >12°/sec, Medium >15°/sec, High >20°/sec, duration |
Roll Rate |
Roll-rate threshold(s), duration; exact severity thresholds to be confirmed |
A significant additional improvement would be the ability to evaluate designated safety rules and send notifications during flight rather than only after post-flight processing.
Operator should be able to configure notifications to designated Operations/Safety personnel while the aircraft is airborne.
This would allow ground personnel to:
Become aware of a potentially significant event while the flight is underway (in-flight check in), Prepare to contact or check in with the crew after landing, Escalate internally according to the operator's safety procedures.
