As the eVTOL industry takes shape, there is a frenetic pace of activity to plan and build the infrastructure that will support the approaching first flights of urban air mobility and other new vehicle classes.
Maj. Gen. Michael Keating, UK Army Air Corps, Deputy Commander for Support of US Army III Corps and Fort Hood, provided several, succinct lessons-learned from current global operations that captured the attention of attendees at Vertical Flight Society Forum 78’s opening general session in Fort Worth, Texas.
This part of the WATS pilot track provided a snapshot of another emerging community trend on CAT’s editorial watchlist: the increased attention airlines and other stakeholders are placing on colleges as a source for future pilots.
Stakeholders across the emerging eVTOL ecosystem are taking measured approaches to permit burgeoning numbers of urban air mobility vehicles to safely operate in national airspaces.
Delegates attending this session heard early results of the commercial aviation pilot training enterprise’s expanding uses of VR and immersive devices.
MS&T has followed and reported on the evolutionary journey defense training enterprises have made through the last several years to embrace increasingly complex and capable technologies.
The US Air Force has said six current and future Space Force bases, in three states, are competing to be the home of its new Space Training and Readiness Command and subordinate units, or space deltas.
WATS Pilot Conference speakers explained how specific technologies are upending and supporting emerging trends and developments in the rapidly evolving learning sector.
Boeing’s Christine Bohl issued a ‘Call for Industry Action’ to “establish a global cross-stakeholder industry task force” which would address issues around Big Data.