Integrated With SkyOS, Simplifies Pilot Workload With Comms, Nav, More

Skyryse, developer of simplified flight controls and aviation automation, announced the release of Skylar, its new AI flight assistant that is designed to simplify aircraft communications, navigation, and operations to enhance efficiency and safety.

Skylar is in-house designed and integrated into the company’s SkyOS, its aircraft-agnostic hardware and software system that simplifies flying. Through SkyOS, Skylar is able to access data from flight controls, location, engine, and aircraft systems. The AI-powered assistant provides support through all phases of flight from pre-flight planning to startup, in-flight operations, and shutdown.

Features of Skylar include:

Intelligent Communications Support:  Automatically listens, transcribes and interprets ATIS and ATC communications including NOTAMS, weather, and any additional hazards or comments for enhanced clarity and context. Keeps a log of ATC communications.

Active Aircraft Traffic Monitoring:  Tracks aircraft identified in ADS-B for optimal situational awareness. 

Enhanced Flight Plan Building and Filing:  Based on real-time weather and ADS-B, provides pilots with optimized flight plans to build and file. Offers informed routing and planning, providing capabilities that were previously unavailable.

Checklist Automation:  Uses data from SkyOS to alert pilots of system failures or anomalies in pre-flight and post-flight inspections. Has direct access to hardware to simplify pre-flight and post-flight processes.

Route Optimization and Fuel Burn Calculations:  Uses weather data and estimated speed to calculate fuel burn to the destination, and provides optimal routing for speed, fuel efficiency and/or the smoothest ride.

Weather Monitoring and Real-Time Alerting:  Checks SIGMETs along the route to alert the pilot of icing altitudes or IFR conditions. Checks weather at departure, arrival, and nearby airports using TAFs and METARs. Simplifies and distills relevant data to make PIREP suggestions for flight service or ATC.

Hardware Connectivity and Pilot-Centric Design:  Simplifies flight operations by centralizing aircraft management, navigation, and communication. With connectivity to SkyOS’ hardware, offers pilots real-time awareness of an aircraft’s state to make accurate, context-aware decisions.

Mark Groden, Founder and CEO of Skyryse said, “We’re bringing aviation into the 21st century. For years, we’ve used AI to talk to our houses, to our cars, and now, we’ll use it to talk to our aircraft. SkyOS is an intelligent, integrated system that allows us to offer enhancements like Skylar, supporting safe operations in all situations.”

“Our core premise is that you don’t have to build or buy a new aircraft to make aviation safe, and once you understand how complex aviation communication is, you see such a clear technology gap. The right solution for making aviation safer isn’t trying to replace pilots – it’s to place them more firmly in control, leveraging the best technology and automation has to offer,” he concluded.

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