Information Is A Critical Property In Rebuilding GA’s Future--Here’s A GREAT New Tool

Jerry Gregoire, the owner of Redbird Flight Simulations says, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” That may sound odd coming from Gregoire, whose company is well known for producing flight simulators where managing and measuring seem to go hand-in-hand. While at EAA AirVenture 2015, ANN News Editor, Tom Patton, finds out that what Gregoire is talking about as it relates to taking real-time airplane activity and converting it to measurable data.

Redbird Flight Simulations has created a product that rides along in the airplane to measure everything that’s going on and convert it to data that can be read at a later time. They call this magic machine, Redbird Sidekick.

Gregoire says it measures parameters such as who is flying the airplane, what airplane it is, engine performance, airplane maneuvers, and much more. What’s particularly amazing is that this small device stands alone, needs no external power, and no connection to anything in or on the airplane itself. Gregoire says, “It’s not the coolest thing in aviation but it is the coolest thing in flight training.”

Gregoire gets into the details of what Sidekick can do and, if you have a flight training operation, you’ll probably want to watch this video twice to comprehend just how much this could help the student, the instructor, and the training operation itself.

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