Flight Sight: Pilot Training

A full-featured helicopter training and simulation app that blends immersive video, interactive 3D, and spatial computing to give student pilots and aviation enthusiasts a cockpit-level learning experience.

Making Real-World Training Accessible

Helicopter training is expensive, logistically complex, and constrained by airspace, weather, and instructor availability. Flight Sight’s product vision emerged from a simple question: how can we give people the feeling and discipline of real helicopter training, without the costs and risks of actual flight time?

From Living Room to Cockpit

The core design challenge was making complex aviation content approachable in a living-room setting, without losing the rigor pilots expect. A full-scale 3D helicopter model is placed directly inside the user’s physical surroundings, letting them walk around it and inspect the rotor, tail, and cockpit as they would in a real hangar.

Technical Highlights

• High-resolution 3D helicopter models built from scratch, with accurate interiors and exteriors, optimized for close inspection on Vision Pro hardware
• Apple Immersive 3D 180° training videos that place users in a virtual cockpit seat during real flight maneuvers
• SharePlay integration with a custom cockpit seating template, enabling instructors and students to train together remotely over FaceTime