A demo is the easy part, but it’s the tip of the iceberg. With today’s large language models, almost any team can build an AI prototype that codes a squawk or answers a maintenance question. Getting it to production in aviation is another matter. This article by Chris Wells, AIXI’s Principal Scientist, shows what sits below the waterline: guardrails, ongoing model management, aviation-grade evaluation and enforced citation. It also explains how AIXI’s Flight Deck turns decades of messy maintenance records into intelligence airlines can act on.
