In todays AI driven culture, we have partnered with an innovative service called Fly Shirley. Written by pilots for pilots, Shirley gives us the ability to harness AI to create scenarios, evaluate performance, teach new skills, position the aircraft and a LOT more…. You can try Shirley for free! Click here

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Here’s some of what Shirley can do:

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Shirley can review and rate your performance of a flight maneuver while flying the maneuver, as well as with graphical overlays and charts during the debriefing phase. Each maneuver is graded using ACS requirements using a 0-100% scale and a letter grade. 
●    Takeoff Maneuvers 
   ○    Normal Takeoff Analysis
   ○    Short-field Takeoff Analysis 
   ○    Soft-field Takeoff Analysis
   ○    Short & Soft-field Takeoff Analysis
●    Landing Maneuvers
   ○    Normal Landing Analysis
   ○    Short-field Landing Analysis 
   ○    Soft-field Landing Analysis
   ○    Short & Soft-field Landing Analysis
●    Steep Turns
●    (More maneuvers planned in Q2 2026)

After completing a maneuver with proper markers, Shirley will analyze the telemetry data and provide: 
●    Real-time Feedback: Instant scoring and performance commentary during your flight or anytime after your flight
●    Detailed Scoring Breakdown: Piece-by-piece scores show the areas that were satisfactory for the maneuver, and areas that could use improvement
●    Airman Certification Standards Comparison: Your maneuver performance is graded against the FAA tolerances with penalty calculations
●    Historical Trends: Track your progress over time in a digital logbook with visual graphs
●    Flight Transcripts: Full conversation history with Shirley for each analyzed flight

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Additional Analysis & Scoring Details

Digital Crew Resource Management (CRM) 

Shirley can act as your digital co-pilot to assist with tasks or questions you may have while flying. What’s unique about flying with Shirley as compared to a flight instructor, is that Shirley can access the web for information that may not be readily available, or memorized by a real live flight instructor during a flight. 

CRM Tasks
●    Flaps - “Shirley, give me 20 degrees of flaps” / “Retract flaps to zero” 
●    Landing Gear - “Configure us for landing Shirley” 
●    Lights - “Turn on our Landing Lights Shirley” / “Turn on the Taxi Lights” 
●    Radios & Transponder - “Tune 122.975 into Com 1 Shirley” / “Shirley, standby 110
●    Aircraft Information - “Where’s the carb heat in this aircraft?” 
●    Enable Heading and Vertical Speed Autopilot Functions - “Set our descent in the autopilot to 500 feet per minute” / “Level the wings on a heading of 270”
●    General Q/A - “What’s the speed limit under the Class B shelf?” / “What is the best rate of climb in this aircraft?” 

Non-CRM tasks Shirley can tend to
●    Current Location - “Shirley, what river am I flying over?” 
●    Airport Database and Location - “What’s the nearest airport with more than 3,000 feet of runway within 50 miles?” / “What's the pattern altitude at KLUK?” 
●    Navigation - “What’s the heading to O’Hare airport?” 
●    Telemetry Information - “How’s this approach looking?” 
●    Failures - “At 3,000 feet AGL activate an engine failure” / “15 minutes into this flight simulate an alternator failure” 
●    Set Airspeed & Altitude - “Shirley, take me to 3,500 MSL and 115 knots” 
●    Set Position in Traffic Pattern - “Put me on a four mile final for runway 21 left Shirley”
●    Change Simulator Time & Date - “Shirley, make it mid October and 1700 local time” 
●    Change Simulator Weather - “Set up overcast clouds with a base at 7,000 feet and a light drizzle” 
●    Active Pause - “Freeze our position Shirley”