Mattern Aerospace places vertiport designs in Microsoft Flight Simulator

Mat­tern Aero­space today announced it has suc­cess­ful­ly placed its first ver­ti­port design in Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor.

Joseph Mat­tern, founder & CEO of Mat­tern Aero­space said: “By util­is­ing Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor, our design team is now able to place ver­ti­ports in var­i­ous cities through­out the world, to see how they fit into sur­round­ing land­scapes.

“In addi­tion to using Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor to design ver­ti­ports, there is also an advan­tage in fly­ing air­craft with­in the sim­u­la­tor to locate new ver­ti­port place­ment pos­si­bil­i­ties.

“Over the last few days, my team and I have spent some time fly­ing the Hype Per­for­mance Group Air­bus H145 over Cen­tral Flori­da, sur­vey­ing prospec­tive areas for future ver­ti­port design and place­ment.”

Mattern’s team has been able to locate three strate­gic ver­ti­port sites which will inter­act well with both the Orlan­do Inter­na­tion­al Air­port and the Orlan­do Exec­u­tive Air­port. He spent the last 14 years work­ing as an eVTOL researcher and cur­rent­ly pro­vides research data to an elec­tric motor man­u­fac­tur­er.

One day while fly­ing Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor with friends, he flew in the HPG Air­bus H145 over Kearny, New Jer­sey and imme­di­ate­ly realised that the HHI Heli­port there did not exist with­in Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor Scenery. He reached out to his best friend, pilot Wayne Smith who has over 300 hours of flight sim­u­la­tion expe­ri­ence in the HPG Air­bus H145, and he in turn referred Mat­tern to an expert scenery builder for Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor.

Mat­tern con­tin­ues: “The next thing I knew, Wayne, Richard and I were joint­ly devel­op­ing the HHI heli­port in Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor and we pre­sent­ed the fin­ished prod­uct to Jeff Hyman, the own­er of HHI.

“As opposed to offer­ing ver­ti­port designs to cus­tomers in the form of sim­ple archi­tec­tur­al draw­ings, our team can send ver­ti­port devel­op­ers and man­u­fac­tures a soft­ware file that they can install in Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor for them to demon­strate their ver­ti­port design to their cus­tomers more effec­tive­ly. VR based, 3D flight sim­u­la­tion graph­ics are the ulti­mate pre­sen­ta­tion.”

In August 2021, Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor part­nered with Volo­copter to inte­grate the VoloC­i­ty eVTOL, which will allow play­ers to fly in cities across the world.

Volocopter’s VoloC­i­ty eVTOL inte­grat­ed into Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor