It’s the human beings that make it complicated, concluded Luis Carlos Munhoz da Rocha, describing the flights that Brazilian operator Helisul Aviação conducted with helicopters simulating eVTOL flights, as research for the Embraer/Eve-led urban air mobility concept studies for Rio de Janeiro. In a wide-ranging conversation with FutureFlight at the recent Heli XP 2022 trade show in São Paulo, he described some of the human complications that Helisul encountered in the 30-day trial and how the company drew on its 50 years of experience chartering rotorcraft to address them.
Munhoz da Rocha’s perspective fleshes out the outline in Embraer/Eve's concept of operations (Conops), a document that spells out the projected realities of this new mode of transportation regarding battery life, air traffic management, and localized market demand, while also offering technical solutions to address these issues. Some problems, the flight trials discovered, start with the passengers served, and some solutions rely on the people serving them.
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