Achieving a fit-for-purpose air traffic management system is crucial to the viability of the urban air mobility sector, according to Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. At the Foresight Aerospace eVTOL conference in London on December 5, David Rottblatt, urban air traffic management (UATM) leader at the company's EmbraerX advanced technology division, acknowledged that Embraer's own plans to bring an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to market are dependent on this key building block being in place.
Rottblatt addressed the challenges of introducing eVTOL operations into cities and beyond, and in particular bridging the gap between piloted and fully autonomous operations over several years or decades. While its vision on UATM aspects is covered in its FlightPlan 2030 white paper the company published last year, it considers that systems in city environments may have to be separate, "dedicated" ATM environments.
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