3rd Place
Eagle
Eagle makes flying a small plane as easy as getting in a car.
Core trick
Code computes VFR risk and fuel limits, while a cloud agent re-plans in flight and texts one decision over a 160-character link.
Description
Eagle makes flying a small plane as easy as getting in a car. Every hour in the air takes about five hours of planning on the ground. Eagle does that planning for you.
"I want to fly to Monterey for dinner tonight with my wife Claudia." Gemini Argon understands the trip and then runs the whole pre-flight checklist at once:
- Route: a VFR autorouter on real FAA data (airspace, terrain, obstacles, TFRs) that offers fastest, safest and most scenic options with easy-to-spot landmarks.
- Weather: beyond the official reports, Argon reads live webcams and GOES satellite images and catches the fog rolling back in for the night flight home.
- Risk: the FAA's PAVE framework with hard no-go limits, plus fuel, performance, and weight and balance, all calculated by code.
- Logistics: fuel, fees and a car to the restaurant, confirmed by a voice agent that calls the airport.
Then comes the part nobody has solved: in the air, a small plane often has only a satellite text link of 160 characters. Eagle hands the approved plan to a Gemini managed agent in the cloud. It keeps watching the weather ahead of the aircraft, re-plans when conditions change (for example, Monterey going IFR, so divert to Watsonville), and sends the pilot just the decision in one short text. The pilot replies "Y" and everything is re-planned.
"My plane has 160 characters. The cloud has Gemini with a million tokens." The pilot always makes the final call.
README excerpt
# Eagle ## ▶ [Watch the 1-minute demo video](https://www.loom.com/share/ba5ba86becc542c68314095f9fb2ce0b) **https://www.loom.com/share/ba5ba86becc542c68314095f9fb2ce0b** --- **Flying should be as easy as getting in a car.** Say where you want to go, and Eagle does the whole VFR pre-flight preparation and hands you a GO / NO-GO briefing. You stay pilot in command. - **Plan:** route, weather, NOTAMs, fuel, mass & balance, risk and logistics, in one go - **Fly:** a cloud agent watches your flight over a 160-character satellite link Built on **Gemini 4 Argon** at the Gemini 4 Argon SF Hackathon.