Category: HoT Topics

HoT Topics

A Most-Wanted List for Aviation Training

RICK ADAMS, FRAeS

Reminders, to-do lists, calls-to-action are a good thing. The NTSB MWL was a plain-speaking Post-it Note which prodded the industry to do better. I’m sorry to see it fade away.

In aviation training, there are longstanding issues which persist without satisfactory resolution. As well as new challenges to be addressed.

So for your consideration (and feedback), here is my proposal for issues begging action, some for years / decades, a “Most-Wanted List for Commercial Aviation Training”:

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AAM / eVTOL

Embry-Riddle Researchers Use NASA Grant to Study UAM Noise

By Mike Cavaliere, Director of News & Media Relations, ERAU

Reprinted by permission of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

High noise levels during flight have long been a barrier to the advancement of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles, or “air taxis.” Thanks to new research being conducted at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University and backed by a recently awarded $1.4 million NASA grant, however, low-noise multirotor aircraft are becoming a reality — one that could precipitate a boom of autonomous flight options available in a city near you.

“By some estimates, UAM operations may become a reality in some urban areas by 2024-2025, first piloted then gradually shifting to autonomous operations controlled from the ground,” said Dr. Vladimir Golubev, Embry‑Riddle professor of Aerospace Engineering and a principal investigator on the project.

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