Why Astarojna exists
“like balancing a needle on the tip of your finger”
At 16 I enrolled in flight school having never flown. I nearly quit in that first year — everything felt hard, remote. Until a friend said: “go meet the helicopter.”
In a tiny hangar at Bacacheri airport, an instructor I barely knew strapped me in, asked the tower for clearance “for an engine test,” and took me up. Flying that R22 was like balancing a needle on the tip of your finger. I walked away spellbound — and it changed the course of my life.
I earned my commercial helicopter license in 2018, at the height of the industry's crisis in Brazil. I was one of the few in my class with work in the field, making 400 reais a month teaching. Then life moved on: the gym came along, the years without flying, the dream on hold.
War Thunder kept the feeling alive — but the game's instruments were hard to read, and no tool had the soul of a real cockpit. I knew what was missing. If I didn't build it, no one would build it the way I imagined.
Astarojna is the panel I always wanted: every instrument designed by someone who actually flies. Smooth, honest, ready to use — no manual needed for every button.
Recently I started flying again, an AW109. I hadn't lost the touch: the simulator kept it sharp.
My daughter was born in July 2026. I'm building this for her — and for the community of everyone who loves flying as much as I do.
— Gilberto
caution, care
It all started in 2011, just before Battlefield 3 came out. My friends and I had a silly rivalry going: one of them was crazy about American military gear; me, leaning Russian just to be stubborn — and in the end I genuinely fell for the Soviet machines. When the game dropped, I set all the audio to Russian. And every time I tagged an enemy, the soldier would shout: “Astarojna!”, followed by a bunch of stuff we couldn't understand. It became our group's catchphrase. Only much later did we learn what it meant: caution, care.
The name stuck — a tribute to flying and to the crew where it all began. In Latin letters we write Astarojna, just the way the word sounds. In Russian, Осторожно. It's the same word, and it's the soul of the app: a cockpit that tells you “careful” at the right moment — like Luna, the copilot who warns you before you break the plane.
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