Methods and systems for simulated operation of an electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) aircraft

An augmented reality (AR) method of simulated operation of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, comprising:

• operating, using a device computing, a flight simulator to simulate flight in an environment;
• performing, using the computing device, a simulated flight mission;
• simulating, using the computing device, at least a virtual representation interactive with the flight simulator, wherein:
• the at least a virtual representation comprises an aircraft digital twin representing a virtual simulation of at least an aircraft component of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft;
• the aircraft digital twin comprises a battery model configured to predict an energy efficiency of a battery of the eVTOL;
• representing the virtual simulation of the at least an aircraft component is generated by a machine-learning algorithm;
• and
• the aircraft digital twin is configured to be iteratively updated based on at least a measured state data of the at least an aircraft component of the eVTOL;
• displaying, using a display communicatively connected to the computing device, the at least a virtual representation;
• communicatively connecting, using a mesh network, the at least an aircraft component and the computing device;
• and
• communicating, using the mesh network, encrypted data, the encrypted data comprising the measured state data between the at least an aircraft component and the computing device, the computing device configured to input the encrypted data to at least one of the flight simulator and virtual representation to iteratively update the aircraft digital twin based on the measured state data of the at least an aircraft component of the eVTOL.