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FAA's New Urban Air Mobility ConOps Raises Questions

Morphing existing helicopter VFR corridors into dedicated urban air mobility routes is among the challenges identified by critics of ConOps 1.0.

FAA's Concept of Operations for Urban Air Mobility is intended to map out how new eVTOL aircraft will share airspace with other users. [Image: FAA]

By Mark Huber • Contributor

July 15, 2020

In his cover letter accompanying the FAA’s first version of the concept of operations (ConOps) for Urban Air Mobility (UAM), Steve Bradford, the agency’s chief scientist for architecture and NextGen development, admits that the document is a “work in progress.” Given the content and the reaction to it, that perhaps is an understatement.

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