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What is SIMNET?

SIMNET is a cloud-native platform trusted by drone developers, operators, educators, and students to accelerate innovation and shape the future of uncrewed flight.

It combines three core functionalities into an easy-to-use web interface:

Drone Design

Access a powerful suite of multidisciplinary tools for drone design and analysis, enabling you to develop and optimize cutting-edge UAV systems.

Flight Simulation

Experience realistic manual and autonomous flight simulations across a wide variety of aircraft, set in high-fidelity virtual recreations of any location worldwide.

Pilot Training

Advance your drone piloting skills with a comprehensive catalog of ready-to-use courses, plus custom content developed to meet your specific training needs—all delivered through a web-based platform.

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SIMNET For Drone Developers

Lead the Way in Drone Innovation With Next-Gen Development Tools

Accelerate your drone development cycle through an integrated system-level design, analysis, and simulation tool that can be combined with conventional CAD software.

Simulate Smarter. Build Faster.

Cut prototyping time and costs by simulating airframe and flight control performance in real time—across virtually any drone configuration and under real-world conditions.

Boost Client Satisfaction With Turnkey Flight Simulation

Provide your clients with a turnkey simulator of your specific drone airframe and flight control system to boost satisfaction while reducing operational risk.

Accelerate Innovation with Virtual Design & Flight Testing

Integration Workflow

1. Create Your Designs

Quickly recreate your existing designs within SIMNET, or build new ones by pick-and-placing components from an extensive parametric components library. You can create virtually any drone design, including multicopters, fixed-wing and VTOLs.

2. Virtual Testing for Real-World Results

Use real-time performance predictions, trade studies, virtual wind tunnel and CFD analyses combined with flight simulation to test, tweak, and optimize both your airframe design and flight control system software virtually, saving prototyping time and costs.

3. Support Client Success Using SIMNET

Offer SIMNET to your clients as a turnkey simulator of your drone—enhancing customer satisfaction, safety, and mission success. We handle all aspects of the simulator deployment, updates, and technical support, so you can focus on what you do best.

Here’s What Drone Developers are
Saying about SIMNET

"SIMNET has become an essential part of our drone development workflow. The ability to visualize flight dynamics in real time—while testing both airframe and control logic—gives us insights we simply couldn't get from static tools. It's streamlined our design process and helped us bring better-performing UAVs to life, faster."

"What sets SIMNET apart is how quickly we can go from concept to virtual flight. The intuitive interface makes design and testing efficient, and the built-in analysis tools help us validate performance before building anything physical. Their support team is also responsive and helpful."

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SIMNET For Drone Operators

Lead the Way in Operational Safety and Readiness

Mitigate risks from VLOS to complex BVLOS operations by planning and rehearsing missions using digital twins of your drone platform and flight locations.

Enhance Operational Safety and Readiness Through Simulation

Enhance Safety and
Mission Readiness

Leverage high-fidelity mission simulations and digital twins of your aircraft and flight location to inform SORA assessments and demonstrate operational readiness to regulators.

Maintain Pilot Proficiency

Use SIMNET's self-guided training tools to maintain and track pilot proficiency through periodic retraining in a controlled, zero-risk environment.

1. Content Integration and Customization

Select from our library of digital models, or collaborate with us to develop custom digital twins tailored to your drone platform and mission area.

2. Simulation-Assisted Operations

Connect your ground control software to the simulator to help plan and rehearse advanced missions, including BVLOS routing, failsafe protocols, terrain-following, and operations under dynamic weather and failure scenarios. Use results to inform SORA assessments and meet regulatory requirements.

3. Maintain Operational Proficiency and Compliance

Stay mission-ready with SIMNET’s structured training programs that combine theory, auto-graded practical exercises, and edge-case mission simulations. Monitor individual and team progress through our integrated Learning Management System (LMS) to support regulatory compliance and ongoing certification needs.

Integration Workflow

Testimonials

Here’s What Drone Operators are Saying About SIMNET

“SIMNET has become an invaluable tool in my everyday workflow. I lean heavily on SIMNET’s ability to produce accurate results when testing failsafe parameters, new standard operating procedures, flight planning efficiencies, and training footprints. Inevitably, before any RPAS pilot touches a real drone at AIRmarket, they’ve refined their skills with SIMNET.”
– Cale Griffith, Chief Pilot, AIRmarket Inc.

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SIMNET For Drone Training Providers

We're Your One-Stop
Simulation Partner

Let us handle the development, deployment, and customer support of advanced simulation-based drone training tools, so you can focus on providing superior training services.

Maximize Your Training's Impact

Upgrade Your Offering

Complement your training offering with simulation-based exercises covering topics that are too risky or difficult to do in real life.

Expand Your Client-Base

Leverage SIMNET’s completely self-guided web-based training solutions to scale your client base through remote learning.

Integration Workflow

1. Content Integration and Customization

Choose from our catalog of training courses and simulation exercises—including ArduPilot-certified courses—or let us help you create custom content tailored to your needs. We can model any drone and flight environment required.

2. SIMNET/LMS Integration

We’ll interface SIMNET with your existing Learning Management System (LMS) to enable launching simulation-based exercises and recording pilot performance scoring back into the LMS. Alternatively, you can opt to use our LMS solution.

3. Deliver Training

Start delivering high-quality simulation-based training through SIMNET. We’ll take care of tech support, development, deployment and updates, so you can focus on expanding your user base.

Testimonials

Here’s What Our Users Are Saying About SIMNET’s
Simulation-Based Training

"Outstanding course! I was already familiar with ArduPilot, but this really helped organize and deepen my understanding—I've never seen anything like it before."

"We fly a large aircraft, on challenging flights involving altitudes below 400ft, terrain following and ranges of hundreds of kilometers. The complexity of our operations demands great rigor in our procedures and training. SIMNET allows us to train on these procedures using an accurate simulation of the flight characteristics of our aircraft and its flight control system. We use simulated training to gain an in-depth understanding of the aircraft's behavior in different modes, including terrain following, return-to-home, and fail-safe modes."

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SIMNET For Educators

Lead the Way With Cutting-Edge Educational Tools

SIMNET is the only STEM education platform that goes beyond drone piloting and coding—empowering students to explore drone design and aerospace engineering in a fully virtual environment.

Enhance Learning with Virtual Design & Flight Labs

Hands-On Experiences

Provide students with practical design-build-fly experience in a virtual lab—without the cost, time, or safety risks of physical hardware.

Curriculum Enhancement

Enhance and modernize your curriculum with virtual labs, hands-on simulation exercises, and project-based learning experiences.

Integration Workflow

1. Content Integration and Customization

Choose from our existing catalog of simulation-based design/build/fly projects and drone piloting training courses and exercises, or we'll work with you to develop new content based on your specific curriculum needs.

2. Set Up Licensing

We offer flexible, cost-effective licensing options: students can purchase their own low-cost licenses for personal device access, or institutions can buy bulk licenses to provide SIMNET on school computers.

3. Launch the Learning Experience

Students are now ready to use SIMNET's simulation-based virtual laboratory to get virtual hands-on experience about drone design and operation. Use SIMNET's Learning Management System (LMS) to monitor student progress.

Testimonials

Over 3,000 students around the world have benefited from SIMNET’s innovative approach to drone education. Here's some of what educators have to say:

"This is an excellent STEM tool for students learning about drones. I utilize it in one of my Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University undergraduate uncrewed systems courses and it really helps students get a real understanding of how to design and build their own drones. I also learn something new about it every time I use it." - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Professor

"What I appreciate most about SIMNET is how easy it makes the entire design process—from selecting components to shaping the airframe. The built-in performance analysis tools make it simple to iterate and improve designs. It’s also great to see new features constantly being added, making the platform better over time. Our students enjoy using it, and the compatibility with various controllers is a big plus." -Elizabeth City State University Professor

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SIMNET For Students and Enthusiasts

Take Off into Aerospace
Engineering

Master aerospace engineering through hands-on experimentation on a virtual drone lab.

Experience Engineering on a Virtual Drone Lab

Hands-On Experiences

Unleash your creativity by designing any type of drone virtually, without the cost and hassle of hardware.

Ace Your Studies

Ace your course projects and get an edge in student competitions.

How to Get Started

1. Sign Up to SIMNET

Sign up for a SIMNET account to start your free trial. Afterwards, you can purchase a reduced-cost educational subscription through our Pricing Page.

2. Get Started

Follow SIMNET’s step-by-step tutorials to quickly learn how to design your own multicopter, fixed-wing, or hybrid VTOL drone from scratch in just a few steps. Then, access our web-based courses to master drone piloting and operations.

3. Dive Deeper

Dig deeper and master aerospace engineering by experimenting with SIMNET’s performance analysis tools. If you have any questions, feel free to ask the AeroBot virtual assistant for help.

Here’s What Students are Saying about SIMNET

"SIMNET was a huge help in designing and testing my plane. It gave me a solid idea of how the size and shape would affect flight, and the simulator predictions were surprisingly accurate. For example, it correctly predicted that my plane would lift off without elevator input and flagged that my elevator was too sensitive. I used SIMNET to tweak the control surface limits, which made the real flight much smoother. Overall, it made my design process way more efficient and informed."
- Student, Elizabeth City State University

"SIMNET has been a game-changer for our drone development process. It helped us visualize flight behavior, test parameter changes, and refine our design before touching real hardware. The ability to integrate with PX4, QGroundControl, and Mission Planner made it easy to tune and validate our model. Features like parameterized geometry and built-in analysis tools saved us hours in prototyping. The support team is very responsive, and the platform continues to improve. We're excited to keep using SIMNET to push our design forward."

- HORYZN Team, Technical University of Munich

"SIMNET has been instrumental throughout the design and testing phases of our aircraft. The software provided allows us to simulate flight performance, identify areas for improvement, and predict how our aircraft will behave during test flights. Whenever we implement a design change, we turn to SIMNET to run updated simulations, and the insights it provides consistently guide us in the right direction."

- Flylanders Team, New Jersey Institute of Technology