Frequently Asked Questions

Pivotal is introducing the Helix as a personal recreational aircraft aimed at making the experience of flight available to a wider audience.

Today, flying the Helix over beautiful landscapes and exploring rate views provide unrivaled adventure. Over time, Pivotal's light eVTOL technology platform will evolve and go beyond recreational aircraft to serve a broad range of public service and defense applications.

The Helix has a number of features that make it unique among the light eVTOLs. The most prominent is that it’s a tilt aircraft that rotates on its base to take off in hover mode, then tilts to horizontal for cruise mode, and tilts back again into hover mode for landing.

The simplicity of the tilt aircraft design leads to major advantages in safety, manufacturing, and cost.

In addition, Helix pilot fly in an enclosed flight deck, protected from the elements by a canopy.

This is just the beginning of what makes the Helix special. Read more about the Helix design, technology, and benefits here.

As a single-seat light eVTOL, the Helix is designed to serve as a personal recreation aircraft, not a commercial air taxi. And while eVTOLs are occasionally referred to as flying cars, the term is used metaphorically, not in a literal sense that they drive on roads, then take off into the sky.

Plenty of movies and cartoons dreamed up the flying car of the future, but today's eVTOLs are not designed to match the sci-fi renderings from decades past.