Let Smart Flight™ do your heavy lifting, autonomously.
With Smart Flight™ software, BVLOS missions fly further and more often by harnessing AI-powered autonomy that's engineered for reliability, consistency, and energy efficiency.
Powering real-world results.
Smart Flight™ has supported long-range BVLOS missions across AerialMetric’s network, including medical cargo and logistics. By improving planning time, mission completion rates, and supporting SORA 2.5 compliance, Smart Flight™ is delivering efficient, scalable drone operations with reduced risk of mission failure.
CHALLENGES
Manual BVLOS planning is antiquated, time-consuming, and rarely delivers impressive results.
Disconnected tools and inconsistent workflows can lead to planning bottlenecks, slower operations, and reduced scalability.
Today, many BVLOS missions rely on a patchwork of tools for planning, including weather apps, airspace platforms, and energy spreadsheets. When multiple systems are used to plan one single mission, workflows become complex and fragmented.
Regulatory documentation adds an additional layer of friction. Every new corridor, geography, or airframe requires rebuilding the SORA package from scratch, often taking 30-60 minutes per corridor. Operators are left juggling wind, energy budgets, terrain clearance, and reserve margins through manual calculations. That cognitive load compounds.
"Manual BVLOS planning is increasingly time-consuming and often leads to highly variable route performance — with flights that succeed one day but are grounded the next."
Pierre-Loup Lesage, CEO, AerialMetric
"Reliable drone deliveries are critical for our ability to serve people in remote areas."
Ny Manda Andrianjatovo, Operations Quality Lead, AerialMetric
THE SMART FLIGHT SOLUTION
BVLOS planning and feasibility analysis that's simple and reliable, for smoother sailing.
With one system, you can plan, validate, adapt, and assess the feasibility of every mission before you even leave the ground.
Smart Flight™ is engineered to remove guesswork and deliver predictable results. The platform transforms BVLOS operations from manual, fragmented planning into streamlined, intelligent workflows. This begins with a pre-flight feasibility analysis that reveals whether a mission should fly before resources are committed.
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Plan: Generate optimal BVLOS routes in seconds that account for terrain, weather, airspace, population, and energy constraints. Each flight plan is wind-aware, terrain-aware, and energy-modelled, integrating directly into ArduPilot, PX4, or your existing stack.
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Validate: Before every takeoff, Smart Flight™ runs a go/no-go check against variables like weather conditions. This results in clear, consistent decisions with full reasoning that eliminates variability between flights.
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Adapt: During flight, Smart Flight™ continuously monitors conditions and recommends or executes continue, reroute, or return decisions. If parameters shift, the system responds before risks escalate, which keeps pilots in the loop while the software handles the complexity.
Flights that succeed today shouldn’t fail tomorrow.
No matter the conditions, Smart Flight™ delivers consistent completion rates for long-range BVLOS missions.
Many of the long-range missinos that Smart Flight™ has enabled across AerialMetric’s network have exceeded 200 kilometers and operate in winds up to 13 m/s.
From mountainous terrain at 1, 700 metres in Madagascar to remote, infrastructure-limited regions, Smart Flight™ removes variability from flight planning and execution. This makes it possible to deliver in environments where consistency is critical and failure is not an option. Such is the case in the delivery of medical and pharmaceutical packages to remote medical clinics.
"Reliable drone deliveries are critical for our ability to serve people in remote areas."
Ny Manda Andrianjatovo, Operations Quality Lead, AerialMetric
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THE TECHNOLOGY
Built for real-world BVLOS operations across platforms, airframes, and missions.
Smart Flight™ is engineered to integrate directly into existing drone ecosystems, without requiring changes to your core stack.
Built on the MAVLink protocol, Smart Flight works seamlessly with PX4 and ArduPilot autopilot systems and has been validated across both fixed-wing and VTOL airframes in real-world BVLOS operations.
Flight plans are generated and exported directly into leading ground control stations, including QGroundControl, Mission Planner, Veronte (Embention), and Lockheed Martin’s VCSi. The VCSi integration reflects a high standard of interoperability, supporting deployment within more advanced and defence-aligned operational environments.
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