Learn to fly an RC Helicopter in every orientation.
HeliSense is an orientation trainer and flight simulator for RC helicopter pilots — from a tail-in hover to full inverted 3D. Drill orientations in five minutes on your iPhone, or fly immersive scenes on your Mac.
iPhone · iPad · Mac • Universal Purchase • iOS 26 / macOS 26
Free-flight Simulator, running on macOS.
Orientation Trainer
Isolate any orientation and drill the exact stick inputs that fly the helicopter back to its target position.
Flight Simulator
Fly photoreal scenes with real-world physics, right down to autorotation and overspeed.
Silhouette Recognition
Train your eye to read a helicopter's orientation from a split-second glance.
Orientation Trainer
Every orientation, one at a time.
Pick an orientation — tail-in, nose-in, either side-in — right way up or inverted. HeliSense animates the helicopter to a target attitude and challenges you to fly it back. Build the habit on a single axis, a random axis, or a full mix.
- Right-way-up and inverted, plus mixed sets
- Single axis, random axis, or the full mix
- Limit the controls to yaw, roll, pitch — or any combination
- Choose how many rounds you fly
Guided practice
A nudge in the right direction — when you want it.
Fly with the on-screen sticks or your own transmitter. Switch on the optional helper arrows and HeliSense shows which way to move each active stick, recalculated every frame — a genuine leg-up while a new orientation is still sinking in. Turn them off when you're ready to fly on feel.
Review
See what you actually did.
After a set, replay the whole flight at ¼, ½ or full speed with a deviation gauge overlaid — your stick input against the target on every axis, per-axis accuracy scores, and live stick traces. It's the difference between thinking you nailed it and knowing you did.
Simulator
When you just want to fly.
Two ways to fly, with three tuning banks per model for agility, expo, pitch and head-speed.
No-collective
Move the helicopter freely around a fixed point to practice manoeuvres like piro-flips.
Free flight
Realistic physics — including autorotation and overspeed — across immersive Skybox scenes.
Controllers
Fly with the sticks you already know.
Prefer your own radio? HeliSense takes its input from RC transmitters and Bluetooth game controllers, so you can train and fly on gear that already feels like home — like the VBar Control connected over Wi-Fi, shown here.
Connect a transmitter over Wi-Fi or ExpressLRS, pair a Bluetooth gamepad, or use the on-screen sticks — plus USB transmitters on Mac. See compatibility per platform →
Make it yours
Fly your own field.
Drop in a photo of your own flying site and HeliSense turns it into a background. Set where the sun sits — its direction, height and strength — so the light on the helicopter matches the shot. Suddenly you're practising at your patch, not a stock one.
Custom backgrounds work in the Orientation Trainer and the no-collective Simulator — the modes that pivot around a fixed point. Full free flight uses the 3D Skybox Scenes instead.
Scenery
Room to roam, in high resolution.
HeliSense ships with a set of scenes and Skyboxes. Want more? The Content Store adds high-resolution fields — up to 16K on Mac, and on iPhones and iPads with the memory to handle it. More helicopters are on the way, too.
In the box
Two machines, ready to fly.
Every copy comes with two 700-size 3D helicopters — one electric, one nitro — so you can start the moment you open the app. Buy once and it's yours across iPhone, iPad and Mac with Universal Purchase.
- Electric and nitro 700-size models included
- One purchase, all your Apple devices
- More helicopters planned as downloads
Silhouette Recognition.
A helicopter's silhouette flashes up; you pick the correctly-oriented one. A fast, oddly addictive way to sharpen the part of your brain that reads orientation at a glance. Unlocks with either package.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when it clicks.
Every feature is free to use in short sessions — no limit on how long you can keep it free, just a cap on each sitting. Free flying runs in 2-minute Simulator sessions and 5-round Trainer sets, with a brief cooldown between. Unlock unlimited flying with a one-time purchase.
Trainer
One-time purchase
Unlimited Orientation Trainer, plus Silhouette Recognition.
Pro
One-time purchase
Everything — the Trainer and the Simulator together, at a saving over buying both.
Simulator
One-time purchase
Unlimited Simulator — both modes, all bundled scenes.
Planned launch pricing. One-time purchases, not subscriptions, shared across your devices with Universal Purchase. Some downloadable extras sit outside the free tier. For context, desktop pro sims run £40–100+. Out of the box, HeliSense gives you a comparable way to train orientation and log real stick time for a small fraction of that — and keeps the entry price low by making the extras optional, so you only pay for the scenery and models you actually want.
Coming soon to the App Store.
HeliSense is landing for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Check back here, or find it on the App Store at launch.