AeroEdge is a performance visualization tool that generates real-time Energy Maneuverability (EM) diagrams for general aviation aircraft. It turns traditional, fragmented POH numbers into a single, interactive graph — showing how stall margins, G-load, bank angle, energy state, and aircraft configuration all interact in flight.
Originally used in military fighter training, EM diagrams are now accessible and practical for GA pilots, CFIs, students, and homebuilders. AeroEdge helps you see and understand your aircraft’s envelope — not just memorize numbers.
Whether you’re refining your pattern work, preparing for a CFI endorsement, or validating a Phase I flight test, AeroEdge gives you the tools to visualize your aircraft’s true behavior in real time.
AeroEdge is designed for the pilots, instructors, and builders who want to go beyond V-speeds and memorized margins — and actually understand how their aircraft performs.
Use AeroEdge to teach judgment, not just numbers. Traditional stall and Vmc instruction is often procedural — but in the real world, loss of control happens fast, and often without warning.
AeroEdge gives instructors a way to make those risks visible. Show students how airspeed and energy bleed rapidly in steep or overshooting turns, and how the margin between safe flight and a spin can vanish in less than a second — especially during a tight base-to-final turn.
Even more critically, demonstrate how Vmc isn’t fixed. AeroEdge dynamically models how Vmc shifts with CG, altitude, weight, bank angle, and whether the prop is feathered or windmilling. Students can finally see how turning into the dead engine with an aft CG can push Vmc well above current airspeed — setting them up for a loss of control they never saw coming.
Whether you’re teaching private pilot stall recognition or multiengine control failure recovery, AeroEdge gives you a visual tool to drive those lessons home before they ever reach the airplane.
Move beyond rote memorization. Visualize where your aircraft lives in the flight envelope — and what happens when you cross the edge. AeroEdge helps make stalls, spins, and turns more intuitive and less theoretical.
Validate your performance in Phase I with confidence. Build an EM diagram for your aircraft from scratch using your own POH or AFM numbers — and see exactly where your aircraft can fly, climb, and turn safely.
Compare the turn, stall, and energy behavior of one aircraft to another. AeroEdge makes it easy to understand how a Cessna 152 flies differently from a DA20 — and how your margins change with weight, altitude, or engine-out configuration.
AeroEdge combines aerodynamic modeling with aircraft-specific performance data to generate real-time Energy Maneuverability diagrams — visualizing the flight envelope like never before.
You select your aircraft — preloaded profiles (like the DA20, PA-28, and Baron) are based on POH/AFM data, edit the preloaded profile, or you can build your own then save the aircraft reference file for future use.
Adjust real-world parameters — weight, CG, altitude, power setting, flap/gear configuration, maneuver overlays, even engine-out conditions.
The diagram updates instantly — showing stall boundaries, G-limit lines, Ps contours, turn radius, angle of bank shading, Vmc/Vyse, and cornering (Va) speed, and even your negative G envelope.
You interact with the envelope — hover over points, test maneuvers, or evaluate what happens as you load the airplane or lose power in a turn.
This isn’t a pre-canned visualization — it’s a live, tunable performance model. Whether you’re validating maneuvering margins at 90 KIAS in the pattern or demonstrating how Vmc spikes during asymmetric flight, AeroEdge makes it visual, intuitive, and applicable.
AeroEdge isn’t just a tool for visualizing stall margins — it’s a foundation for the next generation of real-world maneuver planning, energy modeling, and preflight decision-making.
Here’s what’s on the horizon:
Plan and visualize complex maneuvers like steep turns, chandelles, and base-to-final turns directly on the EM diagram
See where in the envelope you’re flying — and where you’re about to exit it
Set your touchdown point, simulate an engine failure at any point in the pattern
Get a precise descent path and turn plan to reach the runway safely
Customize by aircraft type, wind, weight, flap configuration, and more
Adjust wind speed and direction at altitude
Know exactly what angle of bank you’ll need for S-turns or wind correction in the pattern
Plan real-world maneuvers based on actual energy loss in crosswinds or headwinds
Simulate an engine failure at 10,000 feet and plan your descent to any target — an airport, a field, or a road
Instantly calculate if it’s reachable, and what energy profile you’ll need to make the glide
Adjust prop condition, wind, configuration, and terrain impact
Practice your maneuvers and emergency descents using actual satellite imagery
See your projected ground track over your home airport, training area, or cross-country route
Perfect for chair-flying, ground instruction, and preflight maneuver planning
Export annotated EM diagrams for student use
Create customized “What if?” training profiles
Support oral prep and flight briefings with data-rich, visual content
Model complex training or checkride profiles
Simulate aircraft degradation (e.g. partial power loss, forward CG, density altitude) and see how margins shrink
Build visual exercises to teach energy management and risk recognition
The goal isn’t just to make training better — it’s to make it real.
AeroEdge turns energy management from a theory into a tool you can see, fly, and teach.