DIGITAL RISK ASSESSMENT
wingman is the world’s first digital application for automated risk analysis for specific flights.
Create your fully digital SORA application and save hours of researching regulations and rules. With wingman you save up to 75% of your time compared to conventional procedures.
Digital SORA creation
wingman makes SORA clear and intuitive – don’t miss a single step or important detail!
wingman ensures a uniform, clear structure for all your SORA applications and not only allows you to process them digitally, but also to store and manage all necessary texts and documents in the relevant step and automatically calculate the required risk parameters.
OUR FEATURES
Here is what you get with
Calculate ground and air risk
Step by step, wingman helps you enter all the necessary information about flight parameters and times, altitude and speed. You can either draw the flight plan directly in wingman or upload it as a file. You can easily assign the drone used, including its technical data, from the equipment pool. In a matter of seconds, you will receive your risk classes according to the SORA method.
Automatically calculate contingency and buffer zone
Calculate the lateral and vertical expansion of the contingency volume and the dimensions of the required ground risk buffer automatically, saving you time-consuming manual calculations and avoiding calculation errors. Our community has confirmed that this feature can save a lot of time!
Dynamic ground risk (Austria only)
With wingman, you can now test a world first – the calculation of ground risk based on dynamic population data. Anonymised mobile phone data from our partner DREI is aggregated and compared with the ground risk calculated on the basis of static data. In many cases, it can be seen that the dynamic database allows for more accurate results.
Please note: This feature is currently purely experimental and can only be used for demonstration or research purposes in Austria. skyzr is working on making it available for productive use as soon as possible, as soon as the relevant authorities allow it.
Interactive map
Our risk map is the heart of wingman – it combines current data on ground and air risks with your input and visualises the risk of your flight in a granular but clear form. This allows you to quickly identify risks, make adjustments to your flight plan via wingman and calculate the new risk class.
Apply mitigations and minimise risk
In wingman, you can reduce ground and air risk in line with the options suggested by the SORA methodology by implementing mitigation measures. These are a very valuable tool for making a flight with an initially high risk feasible nonetheless. For each mitigation measure, you can define a robustness level and explain the measures taken. wingman then immediately shows you the effects of your mitigation measures on the risk.
SORA Report
Have you determined your final SAIL, declared TMPRs and OSOs, and checked your details one last time? Then you can complete the SORA and generate your SORA report. You can view this digitally at any time, print it, export it as a PDF, and even send it as a link to external parties, such as authorities. The structure of the SORA report has been deliberately chosen to help authorities process your application efficiently by providing clear and structured information.
API access
Do you find wingman’s risk analysis exciting, but would like to use its functions outside of the wingman application, e.g. in conjunction with other software? Then the option to generate API tokens is just right for you. API tokens function like digital keys and enable applications or users to interact with an API by verifying their identity and authorisations. The wingman API is available on request and can provide the results of the risk analysis for external applications.
Please contact us at wingman@skyzr.com.
Additional features
In addition to the main functions mentioned above, wingman by skyzr offers you many other useful features.
Derivation of all necessary Operational Safety Objectives
wingman shows you the goals to be achieved and helps you systematically declare all OSOs.
Manage drones, equipment and documents
The one-time setup is sufficient, after which you can use all objects for as many SORAs as you like.
Evaluate neighbouring area
Use the checklist to determine the required containment level and define measures.
EXPERTISE
Why you should choose us
With our comprehensive training and many years of experience in the industry, we are ideally positioned to help you through the SORA approval process. We have translated this knowledge into a digital software solution.
Industry Leader
Choose the world's first automated tool that digitally maps the entire SORA process!
Always up to date
Thanks to our extensive network and affiliated companies, we are able to identify regulatory changes at an early stage and update our software accordingly.
Consulting expertise
If you ever get stuck despite the software, our experts have the specialist knowledge to help you with the details of your SORA application on request.
How wingman works
After launching wingman, you can access your digital SORA in just a few steps.
Register
Register and create your organisation
Select subscription
Choose a subscription
create drones
Register your drones and upload important documents
Start Digital SORA
Select ‘New SORA’ and you’re ready to go!
Prices
Free
Free
Use the basic functions of wingman free of charge.
- Create & manage accounts
- Managing drones/assets
- Manage documents
- Map for risk visualisation
- Create SORA
- Save SORA drafts
- Create and share SORA export
- Invite multiple users
- Improved SORA functions
- Managing SORA revisions
SPECIFIC BASIC
Beliebt
199€ / Monat
Gain access to the functions relating to the creation of a SORA.
- Create & manage accounts
- Managing drones/assets
- Manage documents
- Map for risk visualisation
- Create SORA
- Save SORA drafts
- Create and share SORA export
- Invite multiple users
- Improved SORA functions
- Managing SORA revisions
SPECIFIC PLUS
Coming Soon
We are working flat out on additional functions.
- Create & manage accounts
- Managing drones/assets
- Manage documents
- Map for risk visualisation
- Create SORA
- Save SORA drafts
- Create and share SORA export
- Invite multiple users
- Improved SORA functions
- Managing SORA revisions
Frequently asked questions and answers
We answer the most frequently asked questions about SORA and our SORA counselling service. Contact us at any time for further questions.
wingman is a web-based software application that helps you to understand the risk of your planned drone flight, plan risk-reducing measures and comply with the legal requirements for authorisations. The risk analysis for flights in the special category (SORA) in particular is ideally covered in wingman: by uploading your flight plan, wingman automatically determines the ground and air risk of your flight for you and then guides you intuitively through all the steps of the SORA. At the end, you can export the SORA report and attach it to your application with the authorities.
With wingman, you can meet the legal requirements for flights in the special category (SORA) much more quickly and with less effort, allowing you to fly beyond visual range, over 120 metres or with cargo.
wingman is particularly helpful if you have planned flights that fall into the special category. These are, for example, flights over 120 metres (AGL), flights beyond visual range or drone missions where something needs to be transported. But wingman can also be useful for flights in the Open Category: Our interactive map contains more data than is currently provided by official authorities, such as detailed information about relevant areas on the ground, model airfields, nature reserves, obstacles, and others.
wingman currently contains all the necessary data for risk analyses within Austria. We are working flat out to extend it to other European countries.
The free version includes basic functions such as drone and document management as well as the use of the map, which can be useful for any drone pilot. Although a certain level of technical understanding and appropriate equipment is generally required for specific flights, depending on the application, we have endeavoured to make SORA in wingman as easy to understand and intuitive as possible. So you don’t have to be a SORA expert to perform a SORA in wingman. If you are stuck, please contact our team of consultants here.
In principle, you do not need to have an operator registration to register with wingman. However, in order to use wingman for SORAs, it is necessary to provide a registration number. Please note that a valid operator registration is a general requirement to be allowed to carry out professional drone flights.
Please create an account with wingman using your email and password. You must then verify the email address used, simply follow the instructions you receive by email after the initial account creation. You can then create an organisation after your first login. Your organisation represents your company and should have a drone operator registration.
Alternatively, you can continue as a user without creating an organisation and use some basic functions. For the time being, however, you cannot be invited to other organisations as a simple user.
Click on your user icon. In the user menu, you can manage the data of your personal user account under ‘My account’. Under ‘My organisation’ you can manage all relevant data of your organisation such as address, company register number or drone operator number. On the other hand, you can also create drones (required for SORA) and equipment there, as well as manage all your documents such as drone licences, certifications, insurance documents and others, so that you only have to attach them to the application later when creating a SORA.
A Specific Operation Risk Analysis is a special procedure with which the risk of your planned specific flight and the corresponding risk-minimising measures and circumstances are presented and explained in a structured manner. The SORA consists of 10 steps, including the determination of the risk on the ground and in the air, the description of risk-mitigating measures and the definition of operational safety objectives. The SORA is explained in the EASA Easy Access Rules for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Unfortunately, from our point of view, the procedure is anything but ‘easy’, which is why we built wingman. Just give wingman a try and you will see that it is intuitively designed and guides you through the SORA step by step. If you still have difficulties, we will be happy to advise you. Find out more here.
We offer a 50% discount on your subscription for the first 6 months after the product launch. You will benefit in particular if you take out an annual subscription. This means you only pay half price for the entire first year.
At wingman, we differentiate between monthly and annual subscriptions. The monthly subscription is billed monthly and can be cancelled monthly, the annual subscription is billed annually and can only be cancelled annually. There is currently only one paid subscription for wingman with a fixed range of functions. In future, there will also be additional subscriptions with extended functions.
skyzr stores your files securely in a cloud data centre with a server location in Germany (27001:2013, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 9001:2015 and CSA STAR CCM v3.0.1)
If you have any problems, please contact wingman@skyzr.com, we will be happy to help you as quickly as possible.