SkyRyse, creator of the automated FlightOS flight control system, has achieved 100 per cent means of compliance for its full-stack technology solution. The firm recently completed a major system review with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), reviewing the hardware, software and human-factor components of its tech stack. This significant milestone accelerates the company's path toward certification, focusing on simplified vehicle enhancements of already certified airframes.

SkyRyse's intuitive, highly automated, airframe-agnostic and universal flight control system accelerates accessibility, safety and overall ease of flight by decades. Designed for simplicity and developed for safety, the SkyRyse simplified cockpit and intuitive touchscreen system allow anyone to operate any aircraft safely in any situation. From skids up to set down, an entire flight can be completed with the same familiar tap-and-swipe gestures used on a mobile device.

SkyRyse designed its system to offer 10-9 safety standards (one-in-a-billion chance of catastrophic system failure) through a full fly-by-wire system with triply redundant, dissimilar architecture, increasing general aviation safety to commercial air transport levels.

“From start to finish, we have been purposeful in applying FAA-certified and compliant technologies in a new and meaningful way, improving safety and the ease of flight,” says Dr. Mark Groden, founder and CEO of SkyRyse. “At SkyRyse, we believe it's a moral imperative to reduce and one day eliminate general aviation fatalities. SkyRyse is making general aviation easier and safer by removing the complexities of managing an aircraft during standard flight, inclement weather, emergencies and critical flight operations.”

Achieving 100 per cent means of compliance and completing this system review puts SkyRyse in a strong position to achieve full certification. SkyRyse has significantly less certification work as it integrates its technology into already type-certified airframes. The next step requires the company to collect additional data, and validate and verify its technologies through both ground and in-flight testing.

Upon final FAA certification, the company's airframe agnostic solution and simplified vehicle operation can: increase general aviation safety through technology, reducing incidents due to human error (According to the FAA, more than 85 percent of aviation accidents are due to human error); loosen bottlenecks in learning to fly multiple aircraft more affordably and easily. This will Increase the number of general aviation pilots and reduce pilot shortages; allow inactive pilots to get back into the air easily; increase graduation rates of pilots in flight school from one-in-seven to closer to 100%; and increase overall general aviation market from 450,000 to more than one million active pilots; support growth across general aviation with new easier-to-fly product offerings. The modular system can be retrofitted into both legacy and future airframes, fixed wing and helicopter types, enabling increased safety and operating efficiency; and support the growth of air taxi services and aircraft-sharing services.