Vigilant Aerospace Systems was featured in AAM International News for recent FlightHorizon PILOT onboard detect-and-avoid (DAA) flight test milestones. The article covers the company’s continued development of onboard safety systems for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft, and other autonomous aviation platforms.
The coverage highlights recent testing of FlightHorizon PILOT configurations for both small UAS and larger aircraft platforms. These tests included a lightweight onboard system with transponder receiver input and autopilot integration, called FlightHorizon PILOT-C, alongside a version using onboard radar to detect aircraft without transponders called FlightHorizon PILOT-M. AAM International also reported on the system’s use of single-board computing for aircraft tracking, target correlation, avoidance calculations, and real-time pilot supervision.
The article places the flight test milestones within the larger need for scalable autonomous airspace safety. As UAS and AAM operations move toward routine beyond visual line of sight flight, onboard detect-and-avoid systems are expected to play a central role in helping aircraft operate safely in shared airspace.
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Vigilant Aerospace is the leading developer of multi-sensor detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones). The company’s product, FlightHorizon, is based on two NASA patents and uses data from multiple sources to display a real-time picture of the air traffic around a UAS and to provide automatic avoidance maneuvers to prevent collisions. The software is designed to meet industry technical standards, to provide automatic safety and to allow UAS to safely fly beyond the sight of the pilot. The software has won multiple industry awards and the company has had contracts and users at NASA, the FAA, the U.S. Department of Defense and with a variety of drone development programs. Visit our website at www.VigilantAerospace.com