Your Flight App Just Got Pilot-Grade Intelligence

Date (UTC): 2026-03-27

Hi its Sam Chandra - CEO/Founder of Deepsky and the author of this newsletter. Here’s my take on todays news - which represents the last 48 hours of AI in Aviation happenings around the world:

The Flighty use of NOTAMs and weather is definitely something I’ve tried as a side project, but never had enough time to see it through. IAG asking for disruption management is no surprise - it pretty much is (and has been for a while) the grand prize of problems to solve for airlines. And the much higher accident rates when automation hands back to drivers in Teslas is a bit of a warning sign. We think about this exhaustively in aviation, and it seems like Tesla is playing catch up. (Not to mention the car probably hands back to the driver in a highly dynamic manoeuvre that is close to impossible to recover from…)

Flighty Launches AI-Powered Airport Intelligence Across 14,000 Airports

Flighty’s latest update brings pilot-grade data — METARs, TAFs, and NOTAMs — to everyday travelers, using AI to translate raw aviation advisories into plain-language disruption alerts and delay forecasts across 14,000 airports worldwide.

Collins Aerospace Unveils AutoTrac — A Unified AI-Ready ATC Platform

RTX’s Collins Aerospace pitched AutoTrac as the answer to the FAA’s $31.5 billion ATC overhaul, consolidating fragmented en-route, terminal, and surface systems into a single platform that deployed new capabilities in three months during international trials — versus the multi-year cycles of legacy systems.

IAG Targets AI for Disruption Management in 10th Accelerator Round

International Airlines Group opened its 10th IAGi innovation accelerator with AI-driven disruption management and scheduling optimization topping the wishlist — a signal that Europe’s largest airline group sees AI flight-ops tools as a near-term deployment priority, not a research project.

Apple Distills Gemini Into On-Device Models That Run Without Internet

Apple now has full access to Google’s Gemini in its own data centers and is using distillation to create smaller, cheaper models that run entirely on-device without cloud connectivity — a technique that could bring capable AI to iPad-based EFBs and cockpit tablets where connectivity is intermittent or unavailable.

Big AI Headlines: Tesla FSD Robotaxis Crash 4x More Than Human Drivers

Tesla’s Austin robotaxi fleet has logged 14 crashes in 800,000 miles — one every 57,000 miles versus one every 229,000 for human Tesla drivers — even with safety monitors present.

Sam here again - hope you’ve enjoyed reading this edition. If you need help navigating the safe adoption of AI in your flight operation, then we have you covered. Contact me at admin@deepskyai.com or visit deepskyai.com