Coordination and compliance for crowded skies.
Part 108 would let drones fly beyond line of sight at scale. Virabelo builds what that scale needs: coordination between operators, evidence that autonomy stays safe as it improves, and the compliance work manufacturers must keep up to stay in the air.
The sky is filling up
Density is already here.
Two delivery operators in Dallas–Fort Worth now share airspace nearly 10,000 times a month. More operators, and more kinds of operation, are coming to the same neighborhoods.
Plans change in the air.
Pre-flight planning keeps flights apart before takeoff. At density, aircraft from different operators will also need to resolve conflicts in the moment, and agree on who yields.
Responsibility is shifting to manufacturers.
Under the proposed rule, the manufacturer declares an aircraft compliant and must keep that declaration true for as long as it flies.
Density figure from Flytrex, 25 June 2026.
What we do
For manufacturers
Keep your declaration true.
Part 108 would ask manufacturers to declare compliance, train the people who sign, control every configuration, and run a safety program for the life of each airframe. We build the systems and training that make that routine.
For operators and airspace providers
Fly many aircraft among many operators.
We're building coordination for dense, mixed airspace: aircraft that see what their neighbors intend, resolve conflicts in flight, and leave a record that proves it.
For standards and government
Help write the rules of the road.
Virabelo is a participating member of ASTM F38.02, the subcommittee that writes the interoperability standards low-altitude operations depend on.
Proof, not promises
See it fly
Watch a recorded multi-operator simulation: many aircraft, several operators, one shared sky. A live public view is on the way.
Why Virabelo
In the standards room.
We participate in the ASTM committee work that will shape how Part 108 operations interoperate.
Built for density, not demos.
Everything we build assumes many operators and many aircraft from day one.
Founder-led, aviation-grade discipline.
Two decades in unmanned systems, electronic warfare and defense program management.
Insights
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