Case Study: Helipaddy achieves precise, unambiguous helicopter landing location sharing with what3words

3 words to land a helicopter with Helipaddy

Helipaddy is a pilot-built platform for planning helicopter trips, offering a searchable database of vetted landing sites, navigation tools, guides and a community for adding and commenting on locations. The company faced a persistent problem: standard GPS coordinates are precise but cumbersome and error-prone to communicate — mixing up digits can lead to dangerous mislandings or damage to property.

Helipaddy integrated what3words, assigning every 3 m square a simple three‑word address that’s easy to remember, speak and share. This made storing, sharing and moderating precise landing points scalable and less ambiguous, improving safety and usability for pilots and ground teams — a change Helipaddy describes as a natural, effective solution to their location‑sharing challenge.

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Paddy Wills

Helipaddy