Lilium Begins Integration of Garmin Standby Flight Instruments for its Jet

Ger­man-based eVTOL com­pa­ny, Lil­i­um, announced this week it has received the first set of stand­by flight instru­ments from Garmin, a lead­ing provider of avion­ics solu­tions, reports a press release. Garmin is also sup­ply­ing key avion­ic sys­tems to oth­er eVTOL com­pa­nies includ­ing Archer, Joby and Eve Air Mobil­i­ty.

The deliv­er­ies, which fol­low the mul­ti-year sup­pli­er con­tract signed by Lil­i­um and Garmin in 2023, are to be inte­grat­ed into the first Lil­i­um eVTOLs being pro­duced, as well as the Jet flight sim­u­la­tor used for pilot train­ing.

The release explains, “Stand­by instru­men­ta­tion is intend­ed to serve as a back­up dis­play in case of a fail­ure of the pri­ma­ry cock­pit instru­men­ta­tion. As such, the com­po­nent sup­plied by Garmin rep­re­sents a key safe­ty fea­ture of the Lil­i­um Jet and will pro­vide an addi­tion­al lay­er of pro­tec­tion for crew and pas­sen­gers. This redun­dan­cy will help pave the Lil­i­um Jet’s path to dual type-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion by the FAA and EASA.”

Flight Instru­ment (Cred­it: Lil­i­um)

The stand­by flight instru­ment sup­plied by Garmin, is already in use on thou­sands of cer­ti­fied air­craft, and will be inte­grat­ed into the Lil­i­um Jet’s cock­pit. It is to inter­face with the eVTOL’s flight con­trol com­put­er, pro­vid­ing iner­tial sen­sor data (e.g. atti­tude, accel­er­a­tion, etc.) and addi­tion­al key out­puts to the flight con­trol sys­tem, as well as serv­ing as a mod­ern, touch­screen flight dis­play that works inde­pen­dent­ly of the pri­ma­ry avion­ics sys­tem.

Mar­tin Schuebel, Lil­i­um Senior VP of Pro­cure­ment, com­ment­ed, “Our deci­sion to col­lab­o­rate with Garmin on this crit­i­cal sys­tem fol­lowed an exten­sive eval­u­a­tion process and we are delight­ed with the great progress. These first deliv­er­ies con­firm once again our strat­e­gy of work­ing with tier one aero­space com­pa­nies with proven expe­ri­ence in deliv­er­ing prod­ucts cer­ti­fied to the high­est stan­dards of avi­a­tion safe­ty.”

Carl Wolf, VP of Garmin Avi­a­tion Sales and Mar­ket­ing added, “We are com­mit­ted to inno­va­tion and excit­ed to sup­ply our stand­by flight instru­ment solu­tion that will add extra­or­di­nary capa­bil­i­ty to the Jet cock­pit.”

Lil­i­um began assem­bly of its first eVTOL at its man­u­fac­tur­ing and test­ing facil­i­ties near Munich at the end of last year. The first pilot­ed flight test of the air­craft is tar­get­ed for late 2024.

For­mer Polestar CFO Johan Malmqvist to join Lil­i­um from next month

Mean­while, New Lil­i­um CFO, Johan Malmqvist, offi­cial­ly joined the eVTOL com­pa­ny on Mon­day. He suc­ceeds Oliv­er Vogelge­sang, who was with the Ger­man com­pa­ny since 2021.

Malmqvist brings more than 25 years of expe­ri­ence as a CFO of glob­al pub­lic and pri­vate com­pa­nies across a vari­ety of sec­tors. Most recent­ly, he served as CFO at pre­mi­um elec­tric vehi­cle man­u­fac­tur­er Polestar, where he led the company’s finan­cial organ­i­sa­tion, includ­ing finance, tax, trea­sury and investor rela­tions.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.lilium.com

https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/c/aviation/general/

(Top image: Cred­it — AIN)

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