Originally Posted by
FDXLAG
I guess you could program it to flag any approach not stable below 1000' and 500' and listen to the voice recorder to determine if the intent was to be stable by 1000 or 500.
According to the FOQA folks there's currently no way to tell if the approach was flown in IMC or VMC, but they will have the ability to tell sometime soon (it may already be in place.) They said the FOQA program will look at old weather reports and compare them with the time stamps they get from the FDR data. It may be more sophisticated than that but this was the dumbed down pilot explanation given to us.