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Flight Crowd and Varon Vehicles team up to focus on increasing public perception of eVTOL aircraft and urban air mobility

Flight Crowd, the UK-based urban air mobil­i­ty com­mu­ni­ty, has teamed up with Varon Vehi­cles to help shape pub­lic per­cep­tion and accep­tance of the emerg­ing eVTOL air­craft and urban air mobil­i­ty mar­kets.

The goal is to help bring its exper­tise in out­reach and edu­cat­ing the gen­er­al com­mu­ni­ty on the top­ic of urban air mobil­i­ty, specif­i­cal­ly focus­ing on the region of Latin Amer­i­ca — which is where Varon Vehi­cles is cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing its ‘Infra­struc­ture Net­works’ and plans to imple­ment the first one in Colom­bia.

These ‘Infra­struc­ture Net­works’ con­sist of ver­ti­ports with vir­tu­al lanes over the low alti­tude skies con­nect­ing them, which will be used by eVTOL air­craft.

“Gen­er­at­ing the prop­er pub­lic accep­tance is para­mount at this stage in our nascent indus­try, and we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to plan for it for the com­ing years”, says Felipe Varon, CEO of Varon Vehi­cles.

“We need to trans­mit the cor­rect mes­sage to deci­sion mak­ers at many lev­els, from politi­cians to zon­ing offi­cers, from civ­il avi­a­tion author­i­ty per­son­nel to com­mu­ni­ties, about what it is that we’re real­ly doing, why it’s safe and what the val­ues are for socio-eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment. Flight Crowd makes an extreme­ly valu­able part­ner to tack­le this pur­pose as they can bring forth the tools for suc­cess­ful com­mu­ni­ca­tion and edu­ca­tion strate­gies”.

This lat­est part­ner­ship with Flight Crowd is one of many already signed by Varon Vehi­cles. Com­pa­nies which have joined its ecosys­tem include Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty, TruWeath­er Solu­tions, Airio, PS&S and Pal­adin AI.

Flight Crowd aims to both edu­cate and grow the wider pub­lic inter­est in the mobil­i­ty indus­try. It recent­ly released the first words in its UAM glos­sary and in an eVTOL Insights inter­view, talked about its upcom­ing UAM ‘Explore’ project.

James Gill, Co-Founder of Flight Crowd, said: “At Flight Crowd we’re com­mit­ted to advanc­ing the pub­lic inter­est and per­cep­tion of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty. In order to do this effec­tive­ly, we need to devel­op strong rela­tion­ships with the key stake­hold­ers in the indus­try like Varon Vehi­cles. By doing so we can build a com­plete pic­ture of the Urban Air Mobil­i­ty sec­tor, and our sus­tain­able trans­port future.”

Flight Crowd will con­tin­ue to bridge the gap between the indus­try and the pub­lic, set­ting sights more inter­na­tion­al­ly.

Mariya Tara­banovs­ka, Flight Crowd’s Co-Founder added: “Pub­lic per­cep­tion is still one of the biggest bar­ri­ers to mass-scale UAM imple­men­ta­tion. We wish to help address any fears or uncer­tain­ties the com­mu­ni­ty may have when it comes to under­stand­ing the ben­e­fits that future flight indus­try may bring to Latin Amer­i­ca.”

You can read more about Varon Vehi­cles’ vision for Latin Amer­i­ca in an in-depth inter­view with Felipe Varon by click­ing here.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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