nordfen

Mission-ready drone crews.
Trained on your terrain.

Your crews fly the mission before the mission.
Same aircraft, same terrain.

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nordfen in action

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Bring your platform and your terrain

We integrate your aircraft, your controls and your procedures into the simulation, and generate the digital twin of your own area of operations from real geodata.

02

Fuse the environment

Elevation, structures, vegetation and weather become one live environment. Crews recognise the ground before they ever fly over it.

03

Train the mission

Pilot and spotter fly the scenarios live training cannot cover: night operations, GNSS loss, gusts over hard terrain, no-fly zones, multi-agency response.

04

Measure and debrief

Every session produces structured data: inputs, coverage, decisions. Progress you can see, proficiency you can document.

Five hours of live training.
Done in 20 minutes.

In a typical five-hour live training block, a crew logs about 20 minutes at the controls. The rest is travel, briefing, airspace and waiting for weather.

More time at the controls
Every training block turns into flight hours instead of waiting, briefing and travel.
0
Clearances, weather windows, fuel
No airspace requests, no cancelled exercises, no wear on the airframe.
0/7
Training capacity, on site
Available at every base, day and night, at a fraction of the cost per hour.
time needed for 20 minutes at the controlslive training  //  5 h
nordfen simulation  //  20 min

From drone enthusiast
to certified mission pilot.

Whatever experience your operators bring, they reach your mission standard in 50 days.

Measured across 5 crews in our FPV skills training programme

First hours without risk

New operators fly their first hours in simulation, before they touch the real airframe. A mistake costs nothing and teaches everything.

Train the untrainable

Night over a city where a third of the airspace is closed. A lost GNSS fix in a valley. A vehicle moving under the aircraft. The situations crews meet on real missions and can hardly ever rehearse.

Whole-crew communication

Pilot, spotter and command train together. The radio calls, the handovers, the decisions under pressure, drilled as one crew.

Certify with evidence

Repeatable scenarios, structured debriefs and logged proficiency. A certificate that stands on documented hours, not on a good day at the range.

Advantages of our
training solution

Measurement

Every session produces structured training data: inputs, coverage, decisions. Proficiency and currency you can document to command and oversight.

Scalability

From one crew to a national programme, without new airspace, ranges or fuel. Standardised training at every site, on your own terrain.

Sovereignty

Runs inside your infrastructure with no cloud dependency. Your terrain, your data, your training. It stays yours.

Certification

Repeatable curricula, logged hours and scenario results give your certification process a documented basis. Proficiency you can show, not just assert.

We are building the virtual training layer for human operators and unmanned systems. Drone programmes are scaling faster than the people and the autonomy inside them can be trained.

Partners and programmes

Plug and Play ESA Business Incubation Centre Switzerland Drone Industry Association Switzerland Drone Force Europe Bluelion ETH Zurich Start-up NVIDIA Inception Program Initial Coaching supported by Innosuisse, Swiss Innovation Agency

Bring your environment to a training solution.

Join us.

Opportunities at nordfen run broad and deep. We hire experienced collaborators who are the best at what they do, and we are always glad to hear from exceptional people working on simulation, autonomy and unmanned systems.

We do not keep a public list of roles. If your work fits, write to us and tell us what you would build here.

 

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nordfen AG, a Swiss stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft)
Address
Erika-Mann-Strasse 11
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
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