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The One Man Army

Built at Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon · Oct 26, 2026 · Remote

The One Man Army — Demo video

ClearanceGuard AI catches misheard air traffic control clearances before they become deviations. According to research about one in four accidents involves pilot and ATC miscommunication and also one of the deadliest crashes in history started with a misunderstood radio call. Yet today there's nothing in the plane system that has a second layer of security for miscommunications. My product solves this issue by verifying with both ATC and the pilot manually My system listens to every clearance and compiles three sources: the ATC instructions, the pilot's readback, and the flight computer entry. The instant they disagree, it flags the mismatch, predicts a flight path against surrounding traffic, and proposes only a fix that is independently verified as safe. This is another step for verification rather than only the manual communication between the pilot and the ATC. Once all three confirm, the clearance synchronizes. I designed it offline first with deterministic safety checks, with Meta AI reasoning as an optional layer on top so it never goes blind. With or without a connection it takes typed or voice clearances, runs the full loop on a pilot tablet view, and records every decision to a replayable audit trail. But ClearanceGuard cannot automatically make any changes. It's a read-only product that is only meant to give warning to the pilots. It does not take anything into its own hands.

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