Drone Blade Inspection vs Ground-Based Inspection

Wind-turbine blades are enormous and spin at height, so a technician looking up from the ground can only resolve large, already-severe damage. This simulator scatters defects of varying size across a spinning three-blade rotor and lets you compare two inspection strategies: a ground-based survey that only flags defects above a size threshold — leaving small early-stage cracks to silently grow every simulated cycle — versus an autonomous drone that flies a close path along each blade's surface, resolving and flagging every defect regardless of size before it can become a structural risk.