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Flight data report
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If your airline has switched on Flight data report, a PIREP with a crash, a very hard landing, a tail strike or an overspeed gets a report that helps you see what happened in the last moments.
What's in the report
The report sits on the PIREP page, above the flight track. It has three parts:
- Likely cause: up to three lines in plain words, worked out from what ACARS recorded. For example: the gear was up at touchdown, a stall warning sounded 30 seconds before, or the aircraft was still sinking fast in the last 100 ft. It's a hint to learn from, never a finding. Staff still decide on the PIREP the usual way.
- The last 2 minutes: a timeline of the recorded positions (up to 80 rows) before the moment (0:00) and a few seconds after it, with the flight log's checks and warnings shown between them. Each line shows the height, the speed, the vertical speed, the pitch, the bank, the flaps and the gear, with the flight log's warnings shown between them.
- Watch the replay from 2 minutes before: with Flight replay also switched on, this button starts the replay of the flight track two minutes before the moment. The replay opens there too.
A flight gets one report, for its most serious moment: a crash first, then a tail strike, a very hard landing and an overspeed. A very hard landing is one past the Very hard landing level of your airline's Failure rules (when they are on and that level is set), otherwise at 1.5 times its hard-landing rate or more, or one at 2 G or more.
See a report
- Open Logbook → PIREPs & logbook and open the flight.
- Read Likely cause and the timeline under Flight data report.
- Press Watch the replay from 2 minutes before and then Play, to follow the flight on the map and the charts.
The report is shown to whoever may see the flight's track. If you hide your flights from live maps, other pilots don't see it, but you and the staff who look after you do.
For staff
Switch it on under Staff → Airline settings → Optional features → Flight data report. Switch on Flight replay too, for the replay button. Nothing is stored: the report is worked out from the flight's recorded data each time the page opens, so flights filed before you switched it on get a report too.