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GE Partners With Uber on eVTOL Flight Data Monitoring

GE Aviation will offer its eFOQA software to provide operators within the Uber Air rideshare service with a way to combine flight data for safety analysis.

Uber wants operators within its planned rideshare air taxi network to use flight data monitoring and analysis using software developed by GE Aviation. [Image: Uber Elevate]

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

October 15, 2020

GE Aviation’s Digital Group is working to develop a flight data monitoring (FDM) program to support Uber Elevate’s planned eVTOL aircraft rideshare service. The technology will form part of the safety management system (SMS) that Uber intends to voluntarily implement and be based on the FAA’s Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) model.

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