Doroni Aerospace Reveals eVTOL Cockpit and VR Flight Experience

Doroni Aero­space revealed the com­plet­ed cock­pit of the Doroni H1 per­son­al eVTOL with an immer­sive vir­tu­al real­i­ty (VR) expe­ri­ence at Wittman Region­al Airport’s Exper­i­men­tal Air­craft Asso­ci­a­tion (EAA) Air­Ven­ture Oshkosh 2022 from July 25–31.

The gen­er­al pub­lic was able to step inside of the Cock­pit, strap­ping in to take com­mand of the con­trol sticks, and expe­ri­ence the next-lev­el sophis­ti­ca­tion of the H1 Dash­board Flight & Nav­i­ga­tion Sys­tem. The onboard dash uses touch­screen mon­i­tors to con­trol flight and user expe­ri­ence, includ­ing nav­i­ga­tion, land­ing, cam­eras, lights, ven­ti­la­tion, mood light­ing, and wipers.

In addi­tion to the dual con­trol sticks which mir­ror each oth­er for left or right-hand­ed use, the dash sys­tem also includes an engine start but­ton, left and right but­tons to con­trol doors, and RFID sen­sors. Users can hear audi­bles like ‘Doroni Sys­tems Check’ and ‘Doroni Ready for Take­off’ from the onboard com­put­er.

Using VR head­sets, par­tic­i­pants of the EAA Air­Ven­ture 2022 were able to sit inside the com­plet­ed H1 cock­pit and sim­u­late the expe­ri­ence of take­off, flight, and land­ing the Doroni H1 eVTOL.

Flight enthu­si­asts from 10 to 70 years old gave the com­pa­ny over­whelm­ing pos­i­tive respons­es, with many cit­ing how easy to use and intu­itive the sys­tem tru­ly is. Doroni believes that when paired togeth­er in this way, the H1 cock­pit inte­ri­or and VR Flight Expe­ri­ence pro­vide the clos­est approx­i­ma­tion to what it will be like to fly the com­plet­ed Doroni H1 eVTOL when it is pro­ject­ed to launch in Q4 2024.

Doroni recent­ly launched a sec­ond crowd­fund­ing on the equi­ty crowd­fund­ing plat­form StartEngine.com and to date has raised over $300K from over 214 investors. Launched by Howard Marks, co-founder of video game giant Activi­sion, and backed by renowned invest­ment guru Kevin O’Leary, StartEngine enables every­day peo­ple to become angel investors by giv­ing them access to start­up oppor­tu­ni­ties across a wide range of indus­tries.

Last year, Open­er per­formed the first pub­lic manned flights of its Black­Fly eVTOL air­craft at EAA Air­Ven­ture 2021, first revealed in 2018 and claimed to be the world’s first all fixed-wing, ultra-light eVTOL air­craft.