Lilium, GE Aerospace Collaborate “on Delivering eVTOL Flight Safety”

Ger­man-based Lil­i­um, the eVTOL Jet devel­op­er, has announced this week a col­lab­o­ra­tion with GE Aero­space (GE),  a lead­ing elec­tric air­craft man­u­fac­tur­er and pio­neer in Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty, to deliv­er a sol­id safe­ty foun­da­tion for the impend­ing green avi­a­tion rev­o­lu­tion, reports a press release.

The two com­pa­nies are shar­ing “their respec­tive flight data and ana­lyt­ics plat­forms to build scal­able flight data man­age­ment solu­tions that inform the right safe­ty stan­dards and guide­lines for eVTOL oper­a­tors,” explains the release.

GE’s ‘Event Mea­sure­ment Sys­tem plat­form’ will become a crit­i­cal dig­i­tal com­po­nent of Lilium’s after­mar­ket offer­ing called ‘POWER-ON’, which pro­vides safe, effi­cient and cus­tomer-cen­tric solu­tions for oper­a­tors of the Lil­i­um Jet.

“All Lil­i­um cus­tomers,” con­tin­ues the release, “will have access to a range of dig­i­tal ser­vices to sup­port their dai­ly oper­a­tions with crit­i­cal insights and action­able data.”

Dominique Decard, Lilum VP of Fleet Oper­a­tions, Sup­port and Ser­vices, com­ment­ed, “Flight data mon­i­tor­ing at a fleet-wide lev­el is a key com­po­nent of our after­mar­ket ser­vices. Col­lab­o­rat­ing with GE will allow us to deploy the tech­nol­o­gy to sup­port our flight test cam­paign.” 

As part of this part­ner­ship, the two will build an OEM-lev­el Flight Data Mon­i­tor­ing (FDM) or Flight Oper­a­tions Qual­i­ty Assur­ance (FOQA) pro­gram, to mon­i­tor eVTOL safe­ty at a fleet wide lev­el, as well as estab­lish a vol­un­tary FDM pro­gram option for Lilium’s cus­tomers, built in col­lab­o­ra­tion by both com­pa­nies. 

Andrew Cole­man, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of GE’s Soft­ware as a Ser­vice (SaaS) Group, remarked, “As part­ners, we are bring­ing togeth­er OEM-lev­el flight data mon­i­tor­ing and qual­i­ty assur­ance capa­bil­i­ties of EMS with Lilium’s eVTOL jet-relat­ed ana­lyt­ics plat­form to estab­lish a strong safe­ty foun­da­tion for eVTOL indus­try that will help to accel­er­ate com­mer­cial scale adop­tion of this excit­ing new tech­nol­o­gy.”

EMS (a com­pre­hen­sive flight data pro­cess­ing plat­form that pro­vides top of the line func­tion­al­i­ty, accu­ra­cy and speed) is used by over 60 air­lines glob­al­ly and more than 500 busi­ness jet oper­a­tors today for FDM/FOQA. 

Dominique Decard

The release con­cludes, “With the mil­lions of data points record­ed by Lilium’s Jets, passed through its Fleet Opti­miser and EMS, both com­pa­nies will not only be able to build scal­able FDM solu­tions, but also estab­lish the safe­ty foun­da­tions for eVTOL oper­a­tors.”   

Back­ground

GE Aero­space Flight Ana­lyt­ics solu­tions sup­ports over 17,000 air­craft and 40,000 pilots with Flight­Pulse pilot appli­ca­tion. A com­pa­ny mot­to is, “We are com­mit­ted to invent­ing the future of flight, lift­ing peo­ple up, and bring­ing them home safe­ly.” 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.lilium.com

www.geaerospace.com  

(Top image: Lil­i­um)

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