The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published its process for “special conditions” for flight simulation training devices using new technologies such as virtual reality or new aircraft types such as electric vertical takeoff and landing ‘air taxis’.

ICAO has issued a new request for information to public and private-sector innovators in support of its upcoming 2023 DRONE ENABLE Symposium.

Halldale Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides highlights of the simulation and training aspects of the FAA's budget request.

Forget that most major eVTOL OEMs are not eyeing their first round of operational flights until about 2025. An all-hands effort of government and industry stakeholders is gaining momentum to establish the training organizations that will prepare pilots and maintainers to begin this next chapter of aerospace industry history.   
 

The Flight School Association of North America has founded a new business entity, the International Aerospace Accrediting Commission.

AutoFlight has achieved the world’s longest eVTOL flight in history on its debut of the Generation 4 model, with distance of 250KM / 155 miles on a single charge of the aircraft’s lithium-ion batteries.

The University of Waterloo was awarded nearly $10 million in federal funding to rebuild Canada's pandemic-battered aeronautics sector and position it for a more sustainable future. 

The European Union Aviation Safety Authority and Japan Civil Aviation Bureau have accepted Volocopter’s application process for concurrent type certification (TC) of the fully electric VoloCity aircraft to fly commercially in Japan.

Reliable Robotics, a provider of safety-enhancing aviation technologies, celebrated the opening of a new engineering and development center at its headquarters with Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, top local elected officials, and representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Federal Aviation Administration.

Joby Aviation, Inc. is beginning testing at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex (NFAC), the world’s largest wind tunnel facility, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.