Stay proficient
Pilots who fly rarely lose currency fastest. Simulator sessions keep hands in practice between real deployments.
Flight Simulator
Train on your site, not a generic map
Simulator time is the cheapest flight hour there is — no battery cycles, no weather window, no risk. It only helps if the simulated world resembles the one you fly in.
Why simulate
Currency without consequences
Risk-free failure
Rehearse the emergencies you hope never to see. Losing an aircraft in simulation costs nothing and teaches the same lesson.
No aircraft required
Training does not compete with operations for the airframe, the batteries or the airspace.
Simulation · the Hannover medical network: ten drones, 42 platform flights, every landing on its pad · ArduPilot SITL in the Unreal twin
Digital twin
A 3D model of the place you actually fly
Photorealism is not decoration
Generic terrain teaches generic skills. Training on a model of your own site teaches the approach, the obstacles and the awkward corner behind building three.- Your facility, modelledBuild a 3D model of the site and train in it, so the first time someone flies that approach is not on the day it matters.
- Mission rehearsalSimulate the actual planned mission from the operations platform before committing to it.
- Rehearsal as documentationA simulated run is evidence that the plan existed and was reviewed before the flight took place.
Digital twin
Simulation · one agent, each robot on its own vendor interface
Anywhere
Fly a mission anywhere in the world
The simulated aircraft starts wherever you put it on the map. No travel, no permit and no airspace slot.
Pick a place on the map
Enter a start position, plan the mission and fly it. The simulated aircraft appears in your fleet like a real one.
Real cities in 3D
Photorealistic worlds built from 3D data of real places. So far we have flown Hannover, Munich, Essen and a landfill near Braunschweig.
Your own survey in the world
A photogrammetry model of your site can be placed inside the surrounding city, so the detail is where you fly.
Simulation · the fleet twin: ten aircraft over Hannover, every flight a platform flight
Rehearsal
Rehearse the flight before the real one
Simulated aircraft run real ArduPilot and PX4 firmware, so a plan is flown by the same autopilot that will fly it in the field.
Simulate the planned mission
Switch on Simulate Mission in the take-off dialog and watch the plan fly in the console before the aircraft leaves the ground.
Flight time and battery
The simulated battery drains as the aircraft flies. You see how long the route takes and whether the pack lasts.
Survey flights end to end
In a 3D world the simulated camera takes the photos along the route. They upload and are processed into a map like real ones.
Data for AI
Training data for computer vision
A simulator knows where everything is, so a rendered frame can come with the ground truth a labelling team would otherwise draw by hand. Today we produce these datasets with you as a project.
Labels included
The camera pose for every frame, plus depth, per-object masks and tracking boxes in our street scenes.
Scenes you cannot stage
A person walking at night, a car on fire, a junction full of traffic. Each one can be repeated under different light and weather.
A known right answer
Check a mapping pipeline against simulated survey flights, where the true position of every photo is known.
Simulation · CARLA thermal hand-off, every frame labelled by the simulator
Regulation
Where simulator hours count
Whether simulated time can be credited toward remote pilot training is decided per jurisdiction, and the answer differs between EASA guidance and individual national aviation authorities. We are not going to tell you that your hours count until we can point at the specific rule that says so for your country and your operating category.
What is uncontroversial is the operational value: rehearsal, currency and emergency practice improve the quality of real flights regardless of whether a regulator credits the time. Treat the compliance question as a bonus to confirm, not the reason to train.
Request a digital twin of your site
Send us your facility and we will talk through what building and training on its model involves.