CONCEPT STAGE · YORKSHIRE, UK
Low-cost training for drone operators
Airframe, simulator and training software, built on airline training methods.
01 / THE PROBLEM
Drone operators are often trained quickly and informally. Live practice uses up airframes, standards vary between units and organisations, and few tools record competence and currency the way aviation training does. Verbeia applies airline training methods to drone operator training.
02 / APPROACH
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Trainer airframe
3D-printed fixed-wing trainer. Cheap, repairable and built identically every time. Runs ArduPilot with full flight logging.
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Measured handling
Standard test flights record how the airframe actually flies. The data builds a validated flight model.
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Simulator
The same model and settings run in simulation, so trainees fly the same aircraft in the sim and in the field.
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Training software
Logs from sim and live flights are graded against set standards and feed competency and currency records.
03 / PACKAGE
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Trainer airframes
with spares and snap-in replacement parts
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Simulator
with exercises, scenarios, wind and failures
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Training platform
with automatic grading, competency tracking, currency and instructor debriefs
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Syllabus
from ground school through sim to live flying and checks
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Train-the-trainer
and ongoing support
04 / ABOUT
Founded by William Hurt
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Airline flying and training background: over 7,000 hours of flying and training experience and more than 15 years in aviation.
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Software already in production: almost a decade of experience in enterprise-level software, including a live AI training platform for pilot training.
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Method, not just a product: the same process can characterise other airframes and build training around them.
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Yorkshire-based, with UK manufacturing and electronics partners in mind.
05 / STAGE
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Now: concept
Validating demand with operators, training organisations and industry.
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Next: software prototype
Simulator and automatic grading for a first exercise.
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Then: trainer airframe
Print, fly and measure the first airframe.
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Then: demonstrator
Complete sim-to-live loop shown end to end.
06 / WORK WITH US
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Operators and training organisations
to test the need
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Manufacturing and electronics partners
for airframes and components
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Investors
for the demonstrator phase
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Defence and industry partners
to shape where it fits