Flight Tests Demonstrate Coordination between ATM and U-space for UAM Cargo Traffic

By echoblue / 22 Sep 2022
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As part of the SESAR project CORUS-XUAM, a very large-scale demonstration, lead by ENAV with support from D-Flight, Pipistrel, Techno Sky, NAIS and EUROCONTROL, has taken place at Grottaglie-Taranto civil experimental airport, focusing on guidelines for safe depot-to-depot operations between two logistics centres within a suburban area of the city of Manduria.

Flight tests featured a fast UAM vehicle and other drones for specific operations and demonstrated the coordination and interoperability between ATM and U-space (a set of services and procedures designed to ensure safe and efficient access to airspace for a large number of drones) for the management of Urban Air Mobility cargo traffic.

CORUS-XUAM is a two-year very large-scale demonstration (VLD) project to demonstrate how U-space services and solutions could support integrated Urban Air Mobility (UAM) flight operations. These services should allow electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOL), unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and other airspace users (unmanned and manned) to operate safely, securely, sustainably and efficiently in a controlled and fully integrated airspace, without undue impact on operations currently managed by ATM.

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