How it works

A situational-awareness layer next to your radio and your eyes.

Airside Crew adds information. It never replaces the radio, the procedure or the look you take before anyone moves.

  1. 1 · The boxListens for aircraft positions
  2. 2 · The phoneSays one plain alert
  3. 3 · The crewLooks up at the right moment
The box

One box, wherever you need it.

You do not need a box at every crossing. Put one wherever it works for you, in a work truck or at a fixed spot, and it covers the crossings within its range. It picks up the positions aircraft broadcast, never transmits and never accepts outside connections.

Goes
Wherever you put it
Listens for
Aircraft positions
Transmits
Never on aviation radio
Checks in
Every few seconds (planned)
The alerts

Plain alerts, said once.

On the radio, crews name aircraft by airline and taxiway: "Hold for American on Golf." A flagger never gives a time over the radio. Whether there is enough time to cross is the flagger's and the escort's own judgment. The app names aircraft the same way, without the "hold", and adds about how long as information for that judgment. A whole line of aircraft is one alert. A stopped line is said once, and the app speaks again when one starts moving.

  • One aircraft

    "American on taxiway Golf, about 50 seconds."

    One aircraft moving toward your crossing.
  • A group

    "American and Delta on taxiway Bravo, first about 30 seconds."

    A group on the same taxiway.
  • A stopped line

    "Eight aircraft stopped on taxiway Bravo. First is American."

    A line that is stopped, said once.
When something goes wrong

If it fails, it says so.

Failures are designed to be announced out loud, never hidden.

Alerts offline
"Alerts offline. Verify by radio." Spoken and shown on every phone if the box goes quiet, the connection drops or someone gets signed out. Silence never means nothing is coming.

Talk and see

Voice rooms and a dashboard.

Crews talk per crossing. Supervisors see the whole job.

  • Push-to-talk roomsOne room per crossing. Hold to talk, see who is talking, replay the last message.
  • Supervisor dashboardCrossings, staffed posts, box health and the airfield map, on desktop and phone.
Our rules

What it will never do.

Written into the product before any feature.

  • Say "clear," "safe," "go" or "hold"Information only, never an instruction. Whether there is time to cross is the flagger’s and the escort’s judgment, made with the radio and their own eyes.
  • Send your phone location anywhereGPS is used on the phone and stays there.
  • Track hours or where people stoodIt is not a timekeeping app.
  • Mix one company with anotherCrews, crossings and voice rooms stay inside each company.
Coming later

Route-informed alerts, later.

The next big step, built carefully.

Planned, not built yetTurning ground control's radio into text, so alerts can follow an aircraft's instruction and route. It stays off until testing shows it is accurate enough.
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