This Ex-Pilot Is Building AI for the Cockpit
How AI systems can support frontline aviation teams by improving access to critical information during operations — from NOTAMs to EFB fragmentation.
Show Notes
Leo Kotil, a former airline and business aviation pilot turned tech founder, explains how the bottleneck in aviation isn't lack of digitization but retrieval under operational constraints. Pilots face thousands of manual pages, fragmented Electronic Flight Bag applications, and NOTAMs where important data gets buried. The conversation covers operational search latency as a safety consideration, signal extraction from high-volume NOTAM information, and hybrid inference systems with offline aviation backups.
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