High Lander to Provide UTM Services to AIR ONE for Personal Piloting

AIR, a provider of eVTOLs for per­son­al pilot­ing, has announced its aer­i­al vehi­cles will fly under the air­space cov­er­age of High Lan­der, a provider of drone man­age­ment and uncrewed traf­fic man­age­ment soft­ware, reports a press release. AIR ONE suc­cess­ful­ly car­ried out its first UTM-inte­grat­ed flight at last month’s “iter­a­tion of the Israel Nation­al Drone Ini­tia­tive.”

The release explains, “High Lander’s Uni­ver­sal UTM is to pro­vide flight plan approvals and adjust­ments, real-time flight mon­i­tor­ing and in-flight con­flict warn­ings to AIR’s eVTOLs, ensur­ing that the aer­i­al vehi­cles and their pilots com­ply with avi­a­tion reg­u­la­tions and avoid con­flict with oth­er crewed and uncrewed air­craft, geo­graph­i­cal obstruc­tions, and NFZs.”

High Lan­der UTM Solu­tions Becomes Mem­ber of GUTMA

AIR ONE is intend­ed for pri­vate own­er­ship and use, allow­ing the pub­lic to enjoy flight as a viable means of day-to-day, short dis­tance trav­el. The per­son­al air­craft­was unveiled in Octo­ber 2021 and received its air­wor­thi­ness cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in July 2022, where­upon it com­plet­ed its first pub­lic hov­er test. The craft can fly for an hour on a sin­gle charge and car­ry two peo­ple and their lug­gage (to a max­i­mum weight of 250kg). The aer­i­al vehi­cle can take off and land on any flat sur­face, and when fold­ed can fit in spaces designed for mod­er­ate­ly sized cars.

Rani Plaut, CEO and co-founder of AIR, com­ment­ed, “By tak­ing advan­tage of the scal­able and com­pre­hen­sive air traf­fic cov­er­age of High Lander’s tried-and-test­ed UTM sys­tem, we feel con­fi­dent that AIR ONE will over­come its last reg­u­la­to­ry hur­dles and begin to show peo­ple around the world that pilot­ing a per­son­al aer­i­al vehi­cle is as safe and reli­able as it is easy and excit­ing.”

The release con­tin­ues, “High Lander’s pro­pri­etary UTM solu­tion, Uni­ver­sal UTM, is a drone-agnos­tic, auto­mat­ed plat­form that mon­i­tors all air­borne activ­i­ty over ter­ri­to­ries of any size in real time. It autonomous­ly approves, denies, and sug­gests alter­na­tive flight plans as need­ed, pro­vid­ing com­plete air­space cov­er­age for busi­ness­es and gov­ern­ment author­i­ties.

It goes on, “Users of Uni­ver­sal UTM span the globe, with clients includ­ing the Israeli nation­al police force and Speed­bird Aero, the biggest drone deliv­ery com­pa­ny in Brazil.”

Alon Abel­son (Cred­it: High Lan­der)

Alon Abel­son, CEO and co-Founder of High Lan­der, remarked, “AIR ONE brings with it reg­u­la­to­ry and safe­ty chal­lenges that must be over­come before this new mar­ket can take off. All of these chal­lenges can be over­come with Uni­ver­sal UTM, and we’re proud to be pro­vid­ing the safe­ty net­work for this­ground­break­ing prod­uct and a whole new gen­er­a­tion of pilots.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.airec.aero/

https://www.highlander.io

(Top image: Air One)