Accident Detection¶

A crash detector has been defined for the FDR. Although pilots may close the crash mode from the flight simulator; in real life, with the guiding of our pilot friends, FDR has been introduced with some of the resulting crash situations. These are:

• At the point of ground contact with the wheel, the front wheel (in which the front landing is earlier than the back landing (with a pitch angle lower than -4 degrees); with 230+ VS (Vertical Speed) touching the ground? (with a smooth landing of -230 fpm and a pitch angle between 0 to -4 degrees where the front wheel comes into contact with the ground first, only a penalty will be given, and a crash situation will not occur however, even if landing takes place very smoothly; a 50+ perfect landing or 25+ good landing points will not be rewarded!) (The limits are -5 degrees for pitch and 250 kts GS for VFR flights)

• At the point of ground contact with the wheels, having greater than 7 degrees of bank angle towards the left or right? (12 degrees for VFR flights)

• At the point of ground contact with the wheels, VS to be less than -700

• The doors opening whilst at an altitude of 18.000 ft

• Not having contact with the ground even if a smooth landing took place with more than 5 nm distance between the closest airport.

• Staying longer than 30 seconds in a situation of overspeed in the air.