Through a new strategic partnership between Little Arms Studios and SkyOp, LLC, Little Arms Studios' Zephyr Drone Simulator will be deployed throughout the SkyOp commercial and consumer UAS training network that serves a large part of the Northeastern United States.

Zephyr’s unique Learning Management System makes it the preferred option for SkyOp instructors that want to observe the development of each student inside and outside the classroom.

Included in the Zephyr Drone Simulator is a “progressive curriculum of training modules equally suited to novice and veteran sUAS pilots,” which makes it the preferred option for a variety of entities, including public safety and disaster relief agencies, various professional flight schools training commercial UAS pilots, and colleges and universities.

Zephyr’s real-life flight physics and proprietary Learning Management System were important factors for SkyOp instructors and their decision to partner with Little Arms Studios.

“We’re excited to be working with Little Arms Studios to bring the Zephyr Flight Simulator into our instruction workflow,” says Brian Pitre, co-founder and managing member of SkyOp.

“We’ve beta tested the product and watched it come alive. Its enhanced graphics, dynamic training scenarios, active flight physics and Learning Management System are unparalleled in the industry today.”

Using the Learning Management System, instructors can easily manage the training curriculum, and communicate with students outside the classroom. This can be done while effortlessly tracking the individual lesson progress, flight skill proficiency and federal regulatory knowledge of students.

The detailed analytics reports from the module allow instructors to quickly and easily identify the skills that each student needs to work on. SkyOp instructors played a crucial role in the development of the module’s capabilities, being that SkyOp was a beta testing partner.

“Over the past year, SkyOp played an integral part in helping us develop Zephyr into the most feature-rich sUAS simulator on the market,” says Kyle Bishop, CEO of Little Arms Studios.

“We are excited to officially make our partnership public and continue working with the SkyOp team to bring new features to the platform that will keep Zephyr on the leading edge of drone simulation technology.”