GapDrone · Route Lab

01 / Network model

UNVALIDATED AIRCRAFT ENVELOPE Region Candidate hub (OSM airstrip) Round-trip range · km (user hypothesis)

Max payload · kg

Fuel at takeoff · kg

Manual Rev G: 149.9 kg MTOW, 85 kg empty, 65.5 kg total useful load. At 50 kg cargo, fuel cannot exceed 15.5 kg. The manual's range and fuel-capacity tables are blank. 500 km is not validated.

02 / Demand hypothesis

Parcels per person per week Average parcel mass · kg Drone capture share · %

These three inputs are editable assumptions, not measured mail demand. 2021 ABS populations are a proxy; business freight, letters, seasonal visitors and existing transport are omitted.

03 / Costs & geometry

Fixed cost / flight · $

Cost / km · $

Route detour factor · × Show ABS population raster

04 / AusSORA inputs

Characteristic dimension · m

Max commanded speed · m/s

Wingspan per manual §1.4. Speed is a placeholder — the manual's airspeed table is blank; the Wing Review's 31 m/s design cruise is closer to 35 than 25. This decides which Table 6 column applies and is a real lever: check it against your actual VNE once known.

Residual air risk class (ARC)

M1 strategic mitigation

M2 impact mitigation

Operating altitude · m AGL

Aircraft gross mass · kg

Mitigation credit should be your fallback for an occasional iGRC-4 pocket, not your primary strategy — a genuinely isolated corridor needs none. Higher robustness requires real evidence (testing/simulation/third-party validation), not just a declaration. Altitude and mass feed the ground-risk-buffer sizing and sheltering-evidence detail below (AC 101-06 Tables 9–11).

Data provenance, sources and limitations ↗

DESTINATION DENSITY (screening proxy)
Controlled/sparse ≤5/km²
Sparse ≤50/km²
Populated ≤500/km²
Dense ≤5000/km²
Gathering-level >5000/km²
SAIL SCREEN (section 07)
SAIL I/II (good)
SAIL III (warn)
SAIL IV+ (bad)

05 / Weekly plan

Click a flight to inspect its sequence and SAIL estimate. For the Australia-wide region the planner uses a faster heuristic above 60 towns — less exhaustive than the exact pairing search used in the regional pilots.

Flight inspector

Select a candidate flight.

06 / Network optimizer

Greedy multi-hub heuristic: repeatedly picks the single hub that currently captures the most unserved weekly cargo, assigns its best-fit towns, and repeats. Not a proven-optimal facility-location solve — a comparison tool, not a final network design.

Max hubs

Optimize for SAIL target (uses section 04 inputs), not raw cargo

When checked, the optimizer only credits a route toward a hub's score if it screens as SAIL I or II under your current AusSORA inputs (section 04) — using each route's precomputed density, not a live corridor sample (too slow to run per-candidate). Unchecked reproduces the original "most cargo" behaviour, which favours population-dense hubs.

07 / National SAIL screen

Scans every candidate route from a chosen hub (or every in-range town for the whole region) and paints each one by its resolved SAIL tier — green = SAIL I/II, yellow = SAIL III, red = SAIL IV+. Uses the precomputed/live-cached density already fetched elsewhere in the tool; click "Scan" to fetch any missing live samples for routes still unresolved.

Scope

State

Show tiers

Approval blockers

Airstrip entries are OSM candidates, not approved landing sites. Verify runway performance, permissions, airspace, C2, weather, reserve and alternative landing areas. SAIL/fGRC shown here use the CASA-published Table 6/7/SAIL numbers but your inputs (density, ARC, mitigation levels) are estimates, not a CASA-reviewed submission. Do not use this output to dispatch an aircraft.