Aerosense™ Aviation

Hear more. Feel more.
Sense more.

Aerosense™ is building the next-generation aviation headset and pilot safety ecosystem, driven by data — combining cutting-edge noise cancelling, biometric monitoring, personal black-box recording, aircraft and flight specific spatial audio, AI-powered voice computation, flight analytics and more — in a single wearable platform.

$1.2B
Aviation headset market
8–12%
Annual market growth
15 yrs
Founder aerospace experience

Noise Cancelling + DVNC™

A new frontier in cockpit quiet

The low-frequency rumble of a GA cockpit is what wears pilots down over a long flight. DVNC™ is our breakthrough approach to silencing it — a new layer of quiet that goes beyond anything conventional active noise cancelling can reach. It's made possible only by the fully integrated Aerosense™ system, which is why no standalone headset can match it.

Launching with the Aerosense™ H1. More to come soon.

Engineered in layers

Designed around the pilot

Moving the heavy processing, and the heat it generates, into the AeroNode™ keeps both off the pilot's head, so the H1 is built around comfort rather than electronics. Modern lightweight materials, a full-length tension band that spreads the clamping force, ergonomically shaped earcups and an ultra-soft head strap add up to a radically different approach to how an aviation headset is designed and worn.

PilotSense™

Listens to you, too

On-the-ear sensors in the earcup cushions track heart rate, HRV and SpO2 in real time, while the AeroNode™ monitors cabin carbon monoxide (CO), flagging fatigue, stress, hypoxia and CO exposure with prioritised audio warnings. No extra wearables.

After every flight, AeroSync™ turns that data into a Cognitive Fatigue Index, a Flight Safety Score and an AI debrief in plain language: how close you came to the stall in the turn onto final, that the ball was out of centre on short final, and how to tighten your pattern next time. The H1 closes the loop on the most important instrument of all: the pilot.

VGSA™ · Vestibular Guidance via Spatial Audio

A horizon you can hear

Spatial disorientation in IMC remains one of the leading causes of fatal accidents in general aviation. When the outside horizon disappears, the inner ear can no longer be trusted, and a pilot under pressure has to read, interpret and act on a panel of instruments.

VGSA™ takes a faster route. It wraps a three-dimensional binaural horizon around your head that shifts with pitch, roll and yaw. The brain processes spatial audio instinctively, far faster than an overloaded visual scan, prompting natural corrective inputs. An experimental, advisory emergency aid; never a replacement for instruments or training.

The headset is the one piece of equipment every pilot wears on every flight, yet the technology inside it has barely moved in thirty years. Aerosense™ is changing that, centring the cockpit on the pilot: fatigue, disorientation and cognitive load, not just hardware. And it watches the aircraft as closely as the pilot, tracking G-load, wing loading and stall margin in real time. Not just a headset, but a pilot safety and aircraft performance tool.

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How Aerosense™ reinvents the aviation headset

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The ecosystem

Two parts. One system.

Aerosense H1 headset beside the AeroNode processing hub

Aerosense™ H1

The flagship headset

Conventional headsets clamp from a single stiff pivot and spring, at one fixed force. The H1’s adjustable, full-length spring band spreads the force evenly and never touches your head; only an ultra-soft strap does. No hot spots or pressure points, even with a cap on.

Dual-wall earcups, two separate shells per side, seal around cap rims and sunglass arms. Inside: adaptive noise cancelling, PilotSense™ biometrics, Bluetooth multi-device and Creator Mode audio to your action camera.

Integrated sensors feed the AeroNode™, so the headset stays light while the system does the thinking.

AeroNode™

Centralised processing hub

A standalone, metallic, crash-protected processing and power hub, held to the airframe by a quick-lock mounting pad, not bolts. The system's data-fusion centre, with its own calibrated high-rate IMU and GPS.

Where the heavy lifting happens: world-first, ground-breaking aviation technologies such as VGSA™ and DSMA™ run here, keeping the processing, weight and heat off the pilot's head.

Inside it, AeroVault™ acts as a personal black box: 20+ continuous flight and audio data streams on one timeline, with a trailing window encrypted into non-volatile memory on a high-G event.

The Aerosense™ H1

Not just a headset. A platform.

Aviation headsets haven't meaningfully evolved in decades. The Aerosense™ H1 is the world's first aviation headset built as a complete safety platform, combining premium hardware with a deep safety and data analytics ecosystem across eight proprietary technologies, with three patents already pending, designed to scale.

Aerosense H1 resting on a cockpit seat

Aerosense™ H1 Headset

The flagship hardware platform. A premium aviation headset with Aerosense™ sensors, intelligence, and connectivity — built from the runway up for the modern aviator.

Patent pending AeroNode hub on a leather seat in a vintage cockpit at sunset

AeroNode™ Flight Data

Contextual data processing and delivery of aircraft attitude, speed, vibration, g-force, GPS, audio, pilot biometrics and more, all turned into AI-powered flight debriefs.

Bush pilot wearing the H1 in a vintage cockpit over a mountain valley

PilotSense™ Biometrics

On-the-ear heart rate, HRV, SpO2, fatigue detection, hypoxia early warning, carbon monoxide detection — no external wearables required.

Aerosense H1 headset, studio shot

DVNC™ Noise Cancelling

Conventional noise cancelling stops at the surface. DVNC™ goes after the deep, fatiguing engine and propeller rumble that every other headset leaves behind — for a calm that has to be heard to be believed.

Patent pending Pilot in IMC wearing the H1, with a spatial-audio orientation sphere

VGSA™ Spatial Audio

Aviation's first vestibular guidance via spatial audio: an experimental, advisory aid to help pilots keep their orientation in inadvertent IMC, one of the leading causes of fatal GA accidents.

Patent pending Light aircraft in a banked turn with wingtip vortices over farmland

DSMA™ Dynamic Stall Margin Awareness

Using advanced sensor fusion and aerodynamic modelling, DSMA™ continuously predicts your ACTUAL stall speed and warns you long before you reach it.

H1 headset and AeroNode hub on a leather cockpit seat

AeroVault™ Personal Black Box

Cockpit audio & data recording with a crash-protected, G-force-triggered memory capsule. Your own encrypted flight archive.

H1 headset and the AeroSync app on a phone in a modern cockpit

AeroSync™ App

The companion intelligence platform — real-time dashboards, post-flight debrief, AI fatigue scoring, fleet management, and full ecosystem visibility in one place.

Airline pilot wearing the H1, with her voice visualised as a clean waveform

PureVoice™ Zero Noise

Neural voice reconstruction technology that treats a pilot's speech as data rather than sound, to rebuild a clean, studio-quality version of their own voice in real time.

Layer 1

Premium hardware

Fast market entry with the Aerosense™ H1, a premium headset for private pilots, flight schools, bush and helicopter pilots, commercial operators and aviation content creators, in a $1.2B aviation headset market growing 8–12% a year.

Layer 2

Safety & data analytics platform

Every flight adds to a dataset no one else has: aircraft motion, engine and flight data, cockpit audio and pilot biometrics on one timeline, across every aircraft type the system flies in. That data powers the Bio-Audio Fusion Engine™, VGSA™, DSMA™ and fleet intelligence, and it grows more valuable with every hour flown.

AeroSync™

Every flight, replayed.

Like having a safety pilot on every flight: an audio cue in the air when it matters, the full detail once you’re back on the ground.

Pilot in a cockpit holding a phone running AeroSync™: a 3D replay of the flight with a Pilot Safety Score of 94 and a Pilot Fatigue Index of 3.2

Cue, replay, debrief

In the air, you get a soft audio cue only when something critical needs your attention. On the ground, AeroSync™ rebuilds the whole flight in 3D from AeroNode™ data, synced with cockpit audio and your biometrics, and debriefs you in detail. A separate mode analyses aerobatic displays, figure by figure.

Flight performance

Because the AeroNode™ tracks the aircraft itself, every debrief covers how it was flown: coordination in the turns, each leg of the traffic pattern, your closest margin to the stall, steep bank angles and erratic handling. Pilots and instructors get clear, specific feedback after every flight, and a record of progress over time, to fly it safer next time.

Platform capabilities

Built different. Engineered deeper.

Beyond the headline features, the H1 platform carries a dense layer of proprietary intelligence.

  1. Engine state detection

    IMU vibration sensing detects engine start and shutdown automatically, for flight-phase awareness without pilot input.

  2. Phase-of-flight recognition

    Takeoff, cruise, descent, landing and the phases between are identified in real time through multi-sensor fusion.

  3. AI voice command

    Contextual cues from pilot speech refine DSMA™, VGSA™ and other algorithms in real time, with no interaction required.

  4. Anomalous vibration detection

    The system learns an aircraft's nominal vibration signature and flags abnormal engine or propeller events.

  5. Automatic aircraft profiles

    Move the H1 between airframes and it identifies the aircraft and loads the right profile.

  6. Hard landing & structural events

    G-force thresholds and sensor fusion log hard landings and structural red-flag events with a timestamp for maintenance review.

  7. Biometric auto power

    Powers on and off when worn or removed, using biometric presence detection. No switches.

  8. Modular connectors

    Interchangeable cable modules for GA dual-plug, helicopter, LEMO and other aviation interfaces on one headset.

  9. Headset-to-headset link

    Pilot and passenger H1 headsets can talk wirelessly, bypassing the aircraft audio panel when needed.

  10. Multi-platform support

    Fixed-wing, rotary-wing and broader general aviation, with optimisations for each aircraft type.

  11. Flight debrief reports

    Post-flight summaries with a full event timeline, red-flag moments, audio segments and key performance metrics.

  12. VFR-to-IMC detection

    Motion sensing watches for sustained uncommanded banking consistent with spiral onset, and gives the pilot an advisory alert.

  13. Buffet detection

    Aerodynamic buffet onset is identified through sensor fusion as an advisory early warning.

  14. Stereo hearing calibration

    An automated sweep builds an independent EQ and filter set for each ear, so left and right are balanced for VGSA™ spatial audio cues.

  15. Student fleet dashboard

    Flight schools monitor fleet activity, review student sessions and manage aircraft assignments centrally.

  16. Automated digital logbooks

    Flight time, aircraft, phase events and key data are logged automatically for pilot and aircraft.

Go-to-market

A two-stage release

Two deliberate stages inside one 18-month engineering arc: early revenue, real-world pilot data, and an H1 launch with a community already waiting.

Stage 1$499target

AeroNode™ Go

The entry point to the ecosystem: the AeroNode™ core paired with the AeroSync™ app. No headset, no audio path, no biometrics.

  • AeroNode™ kinematic sensor hub
  • AeroSync™ app integration
  • Runway threshold mapping
  • AI-generated post-flight debriefs
  • EKF-based flight mathematics
  • Real-world pilot telemetry capture
AeroNode Go hub on a light-aircraft glareshield at sunset
Stage 2$1,299target

Aerosense™ H1 ecosystem

The full launch: every layer of the platform in a single wearable. Headset, hub and app, working as one system.

  • Aerosense™ H1 premium headset
  • AeroNode™ hub & AeroVault™ black box
  • PilotSense™ biometric monitoring
  • PureVoice™ voice enhancement
  • Noise Cancelling, DVNC™ & VGSA™ spatial audio
  • DSMA™ & the full AeroSync™ ecosystem
Aerosense H1 headset with the AeroNode hub

Safety first

Augment, never replace

Aerosense™ safety technologies are experimental and advisory. They augment pilot awareness; they do not replace certified avionics or pilot training. The system is a portable electronic device with zero input to the aircraft or flight controls, and if everything else fails, the H1 still works as a full aviation audio headset.

Where we are now

Already in motion

This isn't a deck and a dream. Aerosense™ has an engineering team, a full lab, its own aircraft, and development hardware and software that is already flying and logging real data. Provisional patents are filed, and we are moving fast.

Engineering team

Embedded hardware, software and audio DSP engineers, building on development prototypes and real flight data every day.

A full lab

An in-house lab for electronics, acoustics and bench testing, so ideas move quickly from the bench to the aircraft.

Our own aircraft

We own our own helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft, with real-world test environments at our own airfield.

Already flying

Development hardware and software are already in the air, capturing real flight, audio and vibration data.

Meet the team

Founder & CEO

Duran De Villiers

Aerosense™ Aviation

Duran is a multi-rated fixed-wing and helicopter pilot with 15 years in aerospace R&D, manufacturing and global sales. He founded SteadiDrone, built it into ALTI Unmanned with zero external capital, and led it to a major acquisition in 2021.

He started Aerosense™ after seeing a gap from the cockpit: no truly integrated, human-centric layer of intelligence on the flight deck. He leads the company's vision, product strategy, core engineering and investor relations, and is the company's test pilot. His recognition includes Forbes 30 Under 30, Destiny Man Top 40 Under 40, and a range of other business and aerospace awards.

Lead Audio DSP

John Murray

Aerosense™ Aviation

John holds a PhD and two master's degrees in the audio and signal-processing disciplines the H1 is built on. He engineered audio for Rockstar Games on the Grand Theft Auto franchise, and led DSP at Neural DSP, whose amp-modelling technology sets the standard in professional guitar audio.

At Aerosense™ he leads the H1's audio chain: adaptive noise cancelling, DVNC™ and PureVoice™.

Chris Shenton

Principal Electronics Engineer

Peter Bruce

Embedded Systems Engineer

Stefan Kruger

Product Design Engineer

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