Ground operations simulator

Safer operations.
Smarter training.

A live aircraft is the most expensive classroom in aviation. ARD replaces it with a true-scale simulator of your airport, where mistakes cost nothing.

True-to-scale airports · Every GSE · AI headset comms

Ground damage costs the aviation industry $5 billion per year. 61% is caused by GSE.

Source: IATA | Ground Operations & Audits

Mistakes belong in the simulator.

A scraped fuselage, a struck door, a misjudged distance: the cost is rarely just the repair. Most of it is preventable, and most of it starts with training. ARD moves those moments off the live ramp: ramp agents meet the hard situations, and make the costly mistakes, in simulation first.

Fewer incidents Less downtime & delay
True-scale 3D model of an airport terminal and apron 1:1 scale
True to scale

Your airport, line for line.

We don't approximate. Every taxiway, stand, painted line and clearance is reproduced at true scale and true distance, so what a ramp agent learns in simulation is exactly what they do on the apron. Build any airport you operate, then train it in any condition.

Clear Rain Snow Fog Day Night
Full fleet

Every vehicle on the ramp.

Pushback and towbarless tractors, de-icing, belt and cargo loaders, passenger stairs, ground power, air starters, each with its own handling, procedures and phraseology. One platform for the whole ground operation.

  • Towbarless & pushback tractors
  • De-icing vehicles
  • Belt & cargo loaders
  • Cargo loader
  • Passenger stairs
  • Ground power units (GPU)
  • Air starter units
Boarding bridge

Dock to the door, not the fuselage.

The passenger boarding bridge is one of the most common sources of aircraft contact damage. Ramp agents practise approach, alignment and docking to the aircraft door, then auto-level and securing, on your real stands, until the movement is precise and routine.

Headset comms

Train the radio, not just the wheel.

Interphone discipline is where incidents start, or where they're prevented. Ramp agents run the full departure exchange against an AI flight deck that greets, challenges, corrects and debriefs, exactly like the real headset. Voice in, voice out, scored every time.

Live voice · AI flight deck listening
Who it's for

Built for both sides of the ramp.

The same platform serves the handler who runs the operation and the airline that depends on it.

Ground handlers

Recruit and train faster.

  • Screen new hires with a standard initial assessment.
  • Refresh ramp agents on a new airline's or airport's procedures.
  • Plan easily, with no vehicle or trainer taken off the line.
  • Valuable data: usage scores and analytics across your teams.
Airlines

Hold every station to your standard.

  • Roll out procedures across every station and handler.
  • Verify competency: consistent, repeatable, auditable.
  • See every turn through airline-specific reporting.
  • Protect the fleet and your on-time performance.
Airport operations dashboard with live KPIs, fleet status and GSE routing Operations & reporting
Data & reporting

Every session becomes data.

Detailed, per-trainee reports for the operator, and usage scores, competency trends and analytics for the handler. Plan recurrent training, prove compliance, and see your ground operation through data you've never had before.

Per-trainee reports Competency trends Audit-ready
Automated reporting

Reports that write themselves.

Every Monday, each admin gets a personalised operations report, compiled automatically from the week's sessions — new hires, scores, GSE used and procedure updates. No spreadsheets to build, nothing to chase.

About
It started on the ramp, not in an office.

ARD started as the tool a pushback operator built to train himself. A way to rehearse the procedure off the aircraft, on his own time, until it was second nature. The ramp, without the risk.

What works for one operator works for a whole team. That tool became a full simulation platform: every ground vehicle, any airport, rebuilt at true scale. Made by someone who has done the job, for the people who do it every day.

Built by a ramp operator True-to-scale apron Brussels
Made for the people on the ramp.
Book a walkthrough

Raise the bar on ramp safety.

A 30-minute demo. We'll run a live pushback on a true-scale apron and show the training data behind it.