Sova Ground – AI CFI Assistant · Now enrolling partner schools
Every lesson, measured. Every instructor, in control.
Sova Ground connects ground study, simulator practice and the instructor's debrief into one picture of each student's progress: what they know, how they fly the maneuver, what the CFI should review, and what to practice next. Students see what to work on. Instructors see where their time counts. Nothing reaches a record until a CFI approves it.
You already track the problem. Nothing connects it.
Unprepared students. Re-flown lessons. Debriefs that vary by instructor. Simulator time that never becomes evidence anyone acts on. Your courseware, test prep, EFB, simulators and scheduling system each solve a piece. Sova Ground is the layer in between.
What it does
Six things Sova Ground does.
Adaptive ground tutor
Source-grounded instruction aligned to FAA materials, the ACS and your syllabus. Worked examples, guided practice, spaced review of weak topics, with an internal source trace behind every answer. It also decodes the METAR and TAF a student brings it and walks a checklist by voice.
ACS and AKTR remediation
Knowledge-test deficiency codes become targeted lessons, quizzes and oral prompts, then an instructor review packet. Endorsement notes are drafted for the CFI, never issued by Sova.
Prebriefs before every lesson
A five-to-ten-minute prebrief tied to the next lesson objective, aircraft and weak areas. The CFI sees who did the work before the student walks in.
Structured debriefs
Student self-assessment against the instructor's notes, a discrepancy analysis, and a remediation plan the CFI accepts, edits or rejects. Every debrief updates the student's mastery picture.
Real-time simulator coaching
Connected to X-Plane or MSFS, Sova watches live aircraft state, measures performance against task tolerances, and coaches at the level the instructor sets: full prompting, hints only, or silent record-only. Traffic pattern, steep turns, slow flight, power-off stalls and engine failure after takeoff first. Refine your flight maneuvers in the simulator with real-time coaching, consistent CFI-reviewed performance criteria, and feedback your instructor turns into targeted practice.
Instructor and school dashboards
Today's students and their readiness, ACS heatmaps, assignments and lesson packets for the CFI; cohort progress, repeat-lesson trends and at-risk flags for the chief instructor. Records that separate AI drafts from instructor approvals, exportable as PDF and CSV.
It knows when a deviation is the lesson.
A student practicing power-off stalls is flying the airplane outside normal parameters on purpose. A system that treats every intentional deviation as an anomaly gets switched off in a week. Sova Ground is built around a maneuver catalog for the private-pilot syllabus: what each maneuver is, how it is recognized from aircraft state, what tolerances apply, and when the system should speak, record silently, or stay out of the way entirely. The instructor sets the level. The student learns to fly, not to follow prompts.
Built for instructors, not around them
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CFI-supervised by design.
Sova recommends, drafts, explains and tracks. Your instructors approve. Nothing reaches a student's record without a CFI.
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Ground-only.
Sova Ground has no actual-aircraft mode. Real-time guidance operates only in simulators and training devices and is disabled outside a recognized simulator session.
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No endorsements, no sign-offs, no training credit.
Sova issues no endorsements, solo or checkride approvals, and does not claim FAA-approved training credit for simulator or ground work unless your school, device and syllabus separately provide it.
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Complements what you run.
It works alongside ForeFlight, your syllabus, your courseware and your scheduling system rather than replacing them.
What a school gets back
Instructor time reclaimed from repeated ground explanation and debrief admin.
Fewer re-flown lessons, the most expensive unit in the school.
Retention, measured: whether students who can see their progress stay enrolled is one of the numbers a pilot tracks.
A measurable, modern training experience that helps enrollment.
One proof metric, chosen with you.
Start with one proof point.
A scoped 60-to-90-day pilot on Private Pilot students, with white-glove onboarding and a weekly review on one metric you choose, typically instructor time saved or repeat lessons avoided. If the number does not move, you do not expand. Partner schools get first access to Sova Suite for their training fleet.
Priced per active-student seat and quoted on request. Collegiate and enterprise programs get SSO, FERPA-aligned controls and custom records templates.
Sova Ground + Sova Suite
Bring the lesson back to the simulator.
For schools that add Sova Suite (now in early access) to their training aircraft, the airplane feeds the simulator. In-flight monitoring turns a dual lesson into a structured performance record, and a difficult moment from the air can be rebuilt in Sova Ground for practice, coaching and the instructor's review, at simulator cost. It needs Sova Suite in the aircraft, Sova Ground on the school's simulator, and the instructor in the loop at every step.
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The AI in Sova stands for Advisory Intelligence. It informs. You decide.
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Advisory-only.
Sova never controls the aircraft and never replaces pilot judgment. It surfaces what it perceives; the pilot decides what to do.
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Not required equipment.
Sova runs on the device you already carry. Nothing is installed in the aircraft and no avionics are modified.
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Pilot in command.
Every advisory is something a pilot can verify and choose to act on. The pilot in command remains solely responsible for the safe operation of the aircraft.
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Simulator coaching stays in the simulator.
Sova Ground's real-time guidance operates only in training devices, never in an aircraft, and the instructor approves every recommendation before it reaches a student's record.