Automated BVLOS Flight Planning for Professional Operations
NOVA unifies trajectory simulation, drone performance models, and high-resolution weather data to eliminate manual pre-flight bottlenecks. Built for scale, NOVA automates weather risk assessments, supports SORA compliance, and streamlines daily mission management – powering active SAIL III operations across Europe, North America and Asia.
NOVA helps professional drone operators comply with SORA and Part 108 requirements.
Weather Intelligence
Can this mission be flown safely and withing all operating limits? What weather will the aircraft encounter along the route, and how will it affect energy consumption, flight time, and service availability?Compliance
Frameworks such as SORA and the proposed Part 108 require weather and energy assessments to be documented and traceable. As fleets and mission volumes grow, maintaining compliance depends on structured systems and processes.NOVA provides this from documenting individual flights to managing assets, roles, and access centrally across the organization.
Automation
Every mission requires reliable preflight checks, from weather and energy evaluation to planning service availability and resources ahead. As mission volumes grow, doing this manually becomes time intensive.NOVA automates the process, from instant go/no-go decisions to flight-window forecasts days in advance. Use it instantly as a web app or integrate it via API.
Weather Data
NOVA combines forecast data from multiple global weather providers and selects the best-performing model for each region. The data is downscaled to account for local terrain effects, providing spatial resolution for up to 90 meters. Combined with Unisohere’s trajectory simulation technology, this enables accurate weather evaluation along the route on the drone’s flight level.
Map & Situational Awareness
To increase situational awareness, the map is displayed alongside the assessment. Your evaluated route appears with each segment color-coded using the traffic light logic. Weather layers such as icing and wind direction, as well as precipitation radar updated every five minutes, are shown directly on the map.
Weather Stations
Connect weather stations to NOVA in just a few clicks. Live measurements appear directly in the mission view alongside the map and evaluation, providing real-time situational awareness during the most critical phases of the flight: take-off and landing.
Flight Log
Log each flight to retain original evaluation, including weather data, limits, and resulting decision. All logged flights are collected in one place, providing complete records for internal review and as supporting evidence for SORA and Part 108 compliance.
Centralized Asset Manager
Assets are reusable missions components, such as routes, aircraft performance sets, limits, or weather sensors. Once created, they can be used across the entire organization. All assets are centrally managed, ensuring consistency in operational standards and enabling faster mission creation.
Roles & Teams
Define roles with tailored permissions and organize users into teams. As operations scale, this keeps workflows structured and secure, ensuring each user only accesses what their responsibilities require.
Automated Go/No-Go decisions
The decision is performed automatically, resulting in a clear signal that combines weather evaluation along the entire trajectory with energy calculation, accounting for wind and payload. This is shown using traffic-light logic, s the pilot can make a safe decision backed by the best available weather data in just a few seconds.
Flight Window Identification
Besides the go/no-go decision, NOVA automatically evaluates hourly time slots up to seven days ahead. This givesoperators a continuous overview for scheduling missions ahead of time.
NOVA APIs
Beyond the web app, NOVA’s capabilities are also available thourgh APIs, enabling greater automation and seamless, customixable integration into your operational setup.
How companies benefit from NOVA
Built for regulated operations
BVLOS regulation defines what a weather assessment has to cover.
NOVA does not replace your responsibility as an operator, but it supports the tasks the rules put on you.
NOVA helps professional drone operators comply with SORA and Part 108 requirements.
Different benefits for different roles
Complex tasks are smart simplified with intuitive visualizations for improved efficiency
Breaking the complexity of drone flight planning down into smart, simplified visualization of the flight feasibility for upcoming days.
Support operations manager to react to changes, inform stakeholders, and manage the involved resources smartly.
Centralized ConOps management for a good compliance for your flight operations
With the simple management of aircraft capabilities and their limitations as well as the specific operational constraints, NOVA makes the asset management of multiple drone types easy.
This feature allows new missions to be set up quickly while maintaining integrity with internal standards – professional and safe flight operations at scale.
Smart mission overview for a efficient resource management
The more missions you fly, the more you need a clear view of where the weather may interfere.
Plan your resources and adapt to changes quickly. This feature allows you to maximize your team’s productivity to efficiently scale your business.
Best-in-class weather intelligence for complex drone operations
Automated evaluation of all relevant weather parameters and respective limits – providing the highest safety in flight planning with sophisticated weather risk assessment.
High-resolution weather forecast data, combined with rain radar and observations from airports nearby (METAR) provide a high level of situational awareness for all drone missions around the globe.
