Vertiport Simulations Completes Design Vision “Of Dual Vertiport Network At Orlando International Airport”

U.S‑based Ver­ti­port Sim­u­la­tions (VS) announced this week it has com­plet­ed work on its vision of a Dual Ver­ti­port Net­work for Orlan­do Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (MCO), reports a press release.

The com­pa­ny has also con­struct­ed both Ver­ti­port facil­i­ties as option­al scenery with­in a Microsoft Flight Sim­u­la­tor 2024. VS is active­ly “fly­ing in and out of these facil­i­ties” util­is­ing both sim­u­lat­ed air­craft of Archer’s Mid­night and Joby’s S‑4 eVTOLs.

The pri­ma­ry Ver­ti­port at MCO is to fea­ture an elec­tric short take­off and land­ing (eSTOL) run­way; eight Final Approach and Take­off Areas (FATO); four Sky­portz Ver­ti­pads; two Chero­kee Fed­er­al MVP rapid­ly deploy­able tow­able ver­ti­pads; as well as hang­er space for more than 50 eVTOLs.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the facil­i­ty is to have a large array of solar pan­els able to gen­er­ate enough elec­tric­i­ty to charge both the air­craft and facil­i­ty, with­out the need to run mul­ti­ple pow­er­lines, and rely on the local pow­er com­pa­ny. 

This tech­nol­o­gy is based on a plat­form cre­at­ed by Elec­tro Aero that will save months in the plan­ning and per­mit­ting process. 

The small­er ver­ti­port locat­ed on MCO prop­er­ty next to the Bright­line train sta­tion, is to offer two Sky­portz ver­ti­pads; a pas­sen­ger ter­mi­nal; and cov­ered park­ing.

In recent weeks, sub­ject to board approval, the MCO formed a short­list of poten­tial ven­dors for the con­tract. Only two com­pa­nies were cho­sen: Atlantic and Sig­na­ture Aviation/UrbanV Orlan­do.

Joe Mat­tern, CEO of VS, com­ment­ed, “My team and I have worked tire­less­ly to cre­ate what we believe is our ulti­mate vision of a dual Ver­ti­port Net­work and we hope to cap­ture the atten­tion of both ver­ti­ports By Atlantic and Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion in hopes of mak­ing our design a real­i­ty.”

He con­tin­ued, “Over the next few months, our team will be plac­ing a small­er ver­ti­port design in 23 addi­tion­al Flori­da cities shown on the ‘AAM Across Flori­da’ map, cre­at­ed by Woolpert for the Flori­da Depart­ment Of Trans­porta­tion.”

Ver­ti­port sim­u­la­tions are vital tools for the emerg­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try. They assist in visu­al­is­ing and analysing how ver­ti­ports will func­tion and inte­grate in to urban envi­ron­ments. 

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