“Safety first” is not just something we learned as children.

Of course the experience of our audiences is what drives us. But safety is more important to us than the show itself. 

Golden Rule in flight control systems: If you have two, you have two. If you have one, you have none.

For more than four years, your team at Northern Lights Drone Shows has only wanted to provide one thing - happy memories worth repeating. Our best guarantee for happy memories is to put safety first. Which is why we always have.

When we started four years ago, we had a choice to make when choosing which drones, and which software to use. We chose the Verge Aero system.

The Verge Aero system removes as much potential for human error as possible – starting with using two processing chips instead of the industry standard one. This means there’s a back up, should one chip fail. 

Verge also focuses on automation. Automation of systems reduces the number of decisions pilots have to make and the number of steps they have to manually take, which minimizes the element of human stress from potential failures. 

Further, Verge Aero uses deconflicted flight paths, which essentially prevents any two drones from crossing the same flight path at the same time. Anyone piloting a Verge Aero drone doesn’t have to worry about this possibility because of built in automation. 

Despite other systems being less expensive, we chose the safer option. Our thinking was this: Would you rather fly on a plane with one pilot - and no system redundancy - or a plane with two pilots? We would never fly on a plane with one pilot. And we would never fly a drone with no system redundancy. 

You can never eliminate 100% of human error potential, but our drones, made by, and using, Verge Aero technology, comes the closest of any drone tech out there. And that’s more important to us than anything.