VI&E Solutions partners with TruWeather Solutions on vertiports safety

Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture & Ener­gy Solu­tions has part­nered with TruWeath­er Solu­tions to focus on ver­ti­port place­ment, design, and con­struc­tion, and the inher­ent weath­er infra­struc­ture and weath­er ser­vices need­ed for ver­ti­port oper­a­tions to be con­duct­ed safe­ly and effi­cient­ly.

The agree­ment includes a com­mer­cial rela­tion­ship to pro­vide joint expert con­sul­ta­tion and prod­uct deliv­ery in the areas of eVTOL infra­struc­ture and weath­er.

VI&E Solu­tions CEO Dan Sloat com­ment­ed: “Don and his team are ded­i­cat­ed to pro­vid­ing eVTOL oper­a­tors with the high­est res­o­lu­tion weath­er data to reduce uncer­tain­ties which then improves both finan­cial sus­tain­abil­i­ty for ver­ti­ports and flight safe­ty for pas­sen­gers.”

TruWeath­er Solu­tions CEO Don Berchoff, added: “For Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty to thrive, air­craft must have access to more pre­cise micro­cli­mate data, enabling enhanced flight plan­ning, effec­tive risk man­age­ment and informed in-flight deci­sion-mak­ing.

“TruWeath­er has a for­mu­la for detailed design and deploy­ment of weath­er sens­ing infra­struc­ture to mon­i­tor wind and weath­er con­di­tions and con­tribute to safer, more effi­cient ver­ti­port oper­a­tions.”

TruWeath­er Solu­tions pro­vides com­pre­hen­sive low alti­tude weath­er solu­tions to improve safe­ty and effi­cien­cy in the scal­ing drone and air taxi indus­tries. A key com­po­nent of TruWeather’s solu­tion is in sup­ply­ing lead­ing-edge micro weath­er mea­sure­ments by lever­ag­ing advanced tech­nolo­gies to col­lect, process and analyse weath­er data at high­ly localised lev­els.

It advo­cates the best weath­er sens­ing tech­nolo­gies world-wide and is dri­ven to accel­er­ate the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of nov­el weath­er sen­sor solu­tions. These tech­nolo­gies pro­vide unmatched low alti­tude weath­er intel­li­gence and enable stake­hold­ers to expe­dite beyond visu­al line of sight (BVLOS) waivers.

TruWeath­er also leads the ASTM F38 Weath­er Stan­dard, which will open the door for nov­el weath­er mea­sure­ments in sup­port of flight con­trol deci­sions.

Ear­li­er this month, VI&E Solu­tions formed a part­ner­ship with Neu­ro­botx to be the first ver­ti­port on the Boe­ing-backed Metapi­lot plat­form, which will gen­er­ate syn­thet­ic data for real world eVTOL oper­a­tions.

Vola­tus and Neu­ro­botx begin Metapi­lot buildup of first 900 ver­ti­ports