PODCAST: Ken Karklin of Pivotal discusses the impact of its Helix aircraft and bringing personal aviation to life

Our next pod­cast episode is live! In this episode, we were delight­ed to wel­come Ken Karklin, CEO at Piv­otal.

Ken starts of by defin­ing Piv­otal’s mis­sion in the mis­sion of the broad­er con­text of urban air mobil­i­ty and per­son­al avi­a­tion. He also explains the dif­fer­ences between Piv­otal and oth­er play­ers in the eVTOL space, which includes Helix — its ground­break­ing per­son­al air­craft.

We talk about bal­anc­ing sim­plic­i­ty and safe­ty and Piv­otal’s approach to bat­tery tech­nol­o­gy, auton­o­my and redu­dan­cy sys­tems. With all the flight test­ing, Ken shares the lessons learnt in work­ing with reg­u­la­tors and where he sees pol­i­cy going for ultra­light and per­son­al eVTOL air­craft.

Ken also goes into details about train­ing and onboard­ing for new Helix own­ers. and what the com­pa­ny’s com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion time­line looks like for scal­ing pro­duc­tion or expand­ing inter­na­tion­al­ly.

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