Den fasen utviklingen er inne i nå når det gjelder ATC er viktig. Flere selskaper har presentert sine forslag til systemer for traffikkavvikling i de lavere luftlag. Målet er å nå frem til en standard. I hvilken grad FAA og EASA jobber sammen vet jeg ikke, men systemene bør være like rent sertifiseringsmessig. Det samme gjelder naturligvis også for hardware, altså flyene og sertifiseringskriterier.
Et annet moment som ha rslått meg ar at mange av flyene kubn et et sete i cockpit. De er heller ikke rigget for muligheten for to seter med hver sine kontroller. Det bety at alle flygerne må fly simulator slik at en kun får simulatortid før en kommer i cockpit,. Det bryter med gjeldende regime hvor du må fly flyet fysisk før du godkjennes og får sertifikat på typen. Ergo, sertifikatreglene må renoveres noe voldsomt for disse. (Red.)
Eve is working to roll out its first full-scale prototype by the second quarter of this year.
Eve Air Mobility has chosen the name Vector for its in-development urban air traffic management (UATM) solution, with first deliveries now planned for 2026.
Embraer spinoff Eve is unique in that it is the only major air taxi OEM that is also developing an UATM solution, considered critical to enabling high-density operations of drones and electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicles. The vehicle-agnostic software already has 14 customers, including fleet operators, vertiports and airspace and flow management providers, according to Eve.
The Vector solution will allow operators and vertiports to conduct operations and manage resources more efficiently, while allowing air navigation service providers and providers of services for urban air mobility (UAM) to optimize airspace and air traffic for all network users, Eve said.
“Eve expects first deliveries and entry into service as soon as 2026 and has been addressing the airspace and air traffic management (ATM) challenges to support the introduction and growth of the market in a harmonized and safe way,” Eve CEO Johann Bordais said in a statement. “Vector will streamline AAM [advance air mobility] operations from Day One, coordinating all stakeholders involved to enhance safety, optimize performance, and maximize resource usage.”
Eve previously completed a software simulation of the Vector solution in partnership with private aviation company Flexjet over a span of four days at the latter company’s Tactical Control Center at Farnborough Airport. The simulation, which involved 18 flights across eight aerodromes, revealed gaps between existing ATM systems and those needed to support UAM, including a lack of integration between fleet and vertiport operator systems, according to Eve.
Speaking to the AAM Report late last year, Eve CEO Johann Bordais said the Vector solution is intended to accommodate existing infrastructure, and he believes that automated UATM systems will be critical to scale up operations when eVTOLs and drones begin to proliferate in dense urban environments.
The Eve CEO even went so far as to predict that the company’s first sustained revenue stream will be from UATM sales, rather than its air taxi.
“Air traffic management is critical,” Bordais says. “We have to scale up UAM using much of what we already have today. So we’re going to be delivering something to the market that is manageable within the current system. But eventually, when operators will be operating hundreds of these vehicles, they will need a highly automated and holistic solution, and that’s what we’re offering.”
The latest update comes as Eve works to roll out its first full-scale prototype in the second quarter of 2024, keeping it on pace for type certification in 2026.
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