Every day across Australia,
single-pilot operations are the norm.
Charter. Agricultural. Medivac. Survey.
They manage everything —
without a second pair of eyes.
What if your flight manual could talk back?
What if the cockpit
understood your flight?
SoloCrew
The AI Copilot project for every single-pilot operation
Cutting-edge technology, available to every pilot.
7 Reasons for SoloCrew
Single-pilot operations are the backbone of Australian aviation. The technology to support these pilots exists today — but nobody is building it for them. Until now.
Pilots Fly Alone by Design
Charter, ag, medivac, survey — certified for one pilot. SoloCrew augments, not replaces.
Augmentation, Not Replacement
The industry wants to remove pilots. SoloCrew makes them sharper.
Going Paperless Shouldn't Mean Going Static
The "paperless cockpit" just put PDFs on screens. That's not digital.
Today's EFBs Display Data, They Don't Reason
ForeFlight shows information. SoloCrew reasons about it.
No AI Copilot Exists for GA
Military has Beacon AI. Airlines have Project Morgan. GA has nothing.
The Technology Is Ready Now
LLMs, RAG, speech recognition, edge AI — the building blocks exist.
Research Informs the Product
Every feature grounded in human factors research. 18+ papers planned.
Push to Talk
Voice-First AI Copilot
Talk to SoloCrew like a crew member. Push-to-talk, cockpit-noise tested. Your hands stay on the yoke — your voice does the rest.
Quick Glance
Walk into the cockpit and know your aircraft instantly. System status by ATA chapter, open MEL items, maintenance history, and pilot reports — all on one screen.
Ask Your Manual Anything
Natural language Q&A over your aircraft's POH/AFM. Get cited, verified answers powered by RAG. No more searching through PDFs.
Checklist Reader & Checker
Voice-operated checklists with state tracking. Reads items aloud, confirms completion, catches missed steps. Challenge-and-response for critical phases.
Oil pressure below normal operating range
Smart Troubleshoot Assistance
Describe a symptom, get the correct abnormal procedure. Verbatim from your POH with section citations. Never generated, never guesses.
Performance Calculation
See exactly how much runway you'll use. Takeoff and landing distances visualised against the actual runway — computed for your aircraft, your conditions, right now.
Visual NOTAM
NOTAMs shouldn't require decoding. SoloCrew plots hazards, closures, and warnings directly on the airport diagram. Toggle between raw text and visual.
Flight Planning
Route, fuel, weather, NOTAMs, alternates — compiled into one structured briefing. "Brief me on the flight to Broken Hill" and listen during pre-flight.
Navigation Monitoring
Live flight data, terrain awareness, waypoint tracking, wind data, and proactive alerts. SoloCrew watches the flight state so you can focus on flying.
MSFS 2024
X-Plane 12No regulations. No risk. Full realism.
Sim Compatible — MSFS & X-Plane
Full AI assistant in your home simulator. Build skills, test scenarios, and enjoy a more immersive experience. The zero-regulation proving ground.
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Pilots, sim enthusiasts, and researchers — register your interest and help shape the future of cockpit AI.
The Vision
A one-minute look at what SoloCrew will become — an AI crew member for pilots who already fly alone.
1:02 · SoloCrew concept pitch · CQUniversity
Project Timeline
A research programme from literature review to certified production — advisory-only and offline-capable by design, 2026 → 2032+
Phase 1: Literature Review & Regulatory Pathway
Mapping every AI cockpit assistant in the literature — and defining the CASA/FAA advisory-classification pathway that keeps SoloCrew advisory-only from day one.
Phase 2: Industry Analysis & Architecture
What Honeywell, Airbus, Boeing, and Garmin are building — plus a hybrid architecture that keeps the deterministic checklist and performance engine separate from the AI. Aircraft platforms selected: turboprop, piston, helicopter.
Phase 3: Cloud Prototype
Browser-based AI assistant with RAG, voice checklists, and cited answers for a single aircraft type. Work begins on a compact, distilled cockpit model for later offline use.
Phase 4: Voice, Offline Failsafe & Pilot Study
Noise-robust voice, live weather/NOTAMs, pre-flight briefings — and a cached offline mode so critical functions never depend on connectivity. First pilot usability study across piston, turboprop, and helicopter.
Phase 5: Simulator Integration & Verification
MSFS & X-Plane telemetry. Performance figures verified against the flight manual — computed deterministically, never by the AI. Starlink-dropout failure testing. Public launch to the sim community.
Phase 6: Restricted Real-Cockpit Trials
First real-flight trials on experimental / test-registered aircraft only — never revenue charter or patient-carrying flights. The quantised model runs fully offline; Starlink is for updates only; every action is logged as certification evidence.
Phase 7: Edge Device & Certification Docs
Ruggedised edge hardware with the frozen, quantised model running entirely offline. DO-160 environmental testing and DO-178C software-lifecycle documentation begun.
Phase 8: Regulatory Submission & Multi-Aircraft
Formal advisory-system submission to CASA (and FAA/EASA). Expand to 5+ aircraft types as separate cached databases. Independent cybersecurity audit of the update channel.
Phase 9: Certified Production & Commercialisation
Certified advisory hardware and software with a signed, verified update pipeline and a liability / insurance framework. Long-term deployment studies. Full commercial entity.
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A/Prof Guido Carim Junior
CQU School of Engineering and Technology · College of Engineering and Aviation · CQU Aviation
Safety science, aviation safety & human factors