Varon Vehicles to Incorporate Paladin AI for UAM Pilot Training

Varon Vehicles, an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) infrastructure company with origins in Colombia, and Montréal, Canada-based Paladin AI have signed an MoU to incorporate Paladin AI’s aircraft pilot training capabilities for their fleets of UAM aircraft operators.

Varon is developing networks of vertiports connected via ‘virtual lanes’ over the low-altitude city and suburban skies, as well as fleets of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

Dr. Klassen was a speaker at Halldale/CAT’s  Global ATS-Virtual conference and has contributed a guest commentary to CAT on “ Pilot Training in the Face of Covid.”

“Urban air mobility is the next frontier,” says Dr. Mikhail Klassen, Chief Technology Officer of Paladin AI. “It will fundamentally change the way we live and how we think about our cities. It is important that we leverage 21st-century technologies in our training methods. By the end of this decade, there will tens of thousands of air vehicle operators that will need to be trained.”

Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder of Varon Vehicles, added, “Our aircraft will be an entirely new breed in aviation. They will be electric, highly automated, made for the urban environment, and our operators will need a completely new form of training. Our collaboration with Paladin AI guarantees that we set the stage correctly to answer questions about the proper training strategies for these new types of operators. They will have much lighter tasks in the air than traditional pilots. Our operators will surely require less training than in traditional commercial aviation, and the process will be simulator-intensive.”

Paladin AI’s adaptive pilot training software uses artificial intelligence to detect and measure the core competencies that are predictive of proficiency. This allows for personalized training that is tailored to the needs of individual pilots.