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Back in high school, I had a history class assignment to speak with a WWII veteran. The gentleman that I met had piloted cargo aircraft from various Pacific Northwest locations to bases on the Aleutian Islands - often at night and always off the coast of Alaska. He recounted a navigational approach that involved holding an altitude and adjusting his heading based on radio directions from ground tracking stations. About as simple as it gets! But needless to say, he put full fa

Hardware-in-the-Loop System Displays VTI’s FlightStack augments Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS) with automated visual callouts of runways, landing and departing traffic, and approach guidance. This context improves the interpretability of EVS video for better pilot situational awareness. In our previous posts, we described the use of synthetic data for model development, methods for scaled testing of our software stack and flight test campaigns for real world validation. But ho

Example runway detections on VTI flight test data. On September 19th and 20th, 2023, the FAA hosted an Artificial Intelligence Roadmap Review and Technical Session. Industry and government representatives met to advance the FAA’s Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Assurance. A common theme of the wide-ranging discussion is simply put: How do you prove AI works? When faced with this question, many entrants into AI development, especially in the context of aviation