Aviation has spent a century getting safer the hard way: something goes wrong, investigators reconstruct why, and the lesson enters the syllabus years later. Inside the cockpit, training still runs on human memory — an instructor’s recollection of a maneuver, a student’s impression of what happened, a debrief assembled from notes and guesswork. Detailed flight analysis takes days of manual work, so it almost never happens. Meanwhile preventable flight mishaps remain among the largest peacetime losses of life and hardware in military aviation. The data to fix this exists on every flight. Nobody has been listening to it.
Every flight, fully understood.
Navi AI captures cockpit audio, aircraft telemetry, ATC comms, and environmental data — self-installed on any aircraft, with no avionics modifications — and turns it into intelligence. Cadet replays every sortie to the second and delivers automated maneuver analysis measured against the school’s own SOPs, plus an AI debrief assistant grounded in the POH, the PHAK, and FAA regulations. Bastion gives flight training commands an operational view of every active sortie, an always-on safety management system, instructor standardization analytics, and student progression intelligence that flags at-risk pilots early. Wave brings FOQA-grade data capture to any airframe. Ares extends the reasoning engine to military sortie intelligence. Commercially operational today, Navi is deploying to Embry-Riddle and leading flight academies, and is being adapted for the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School’s T-38 Talon fleet.
More Thoughts From the Team at BVVC:
“One of the largest peacetime losses of life and hardware in military aviation is preventable flight mishaps. Navi is building software that helps pilots train better and operate more safely in the air. We believe Navi can become the standard across global aviation, living inside nearly every aircraft in the world.
The blind spot here is generational. We train the pilots of a supersonic, autonomous, congested sky using the debrief methods of the flight schools of the 1970s — memory, opinion, and paper. Every sortie generates a complete record of what actually happened, and until now that record simply evaporated on landing. Navi captures it, understands it, and returns it as coaching, standardization, and command-level safety intelligence. No subjectivity. No gaps.
America faces a pilot shortage on the commercial side and a readiness imperative on the military side, and both problems reduce to the same equation: produce better aviators, faster, without compromising safety. That is precisely the equation Navi solves. We invest in Teams, and this one is already flying with the institutions that set the standard — from Embry-Riddle to the Air Force Test Pilot School. The future of aviation safety is proactive. Navi is building it.”
“Aviation safety has improved dramatically over the decades but has for the most part been reactive: We wait for things to go wrong to look at the data and understand why.”
– Nikola Kostic, CEO and Founder