Eve Air Mobility “Releases Further AAM News”

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, keeps on releas­ing news in recent weeks with the lat­est two announce­ments involv­ing Embraer-CAE Train­ing Ser­vices and a col­lab­o­ra­tion to devel­op an AAM Ecosys­tem in Brazil, reports two press releas­es.

First, Eve has announced a joint ven­ture with its par­ent com­pa­ny, Embraer, and CAE Train­ing Ser­vice (ECTS). ECTS has been select­ed as the train­ing provider for Eve’s eVTOL air­craft pilots, main­te­nance tech­ni­cians and ground han­dling per­son­nel. The ser­vices will be part of the recent­ly announced Eve Tech­Care, the company’s all-in-one ser­vice port­fo­lio for eVTOLs.

Luiz Mauad, VP of Eve Cus­tomer Ser­vices, com­ment­ed, “This part­ner­ship not only under­scores our com­mit­ment to safe­ty and oper­a­tional excel­lence, but also equips our and oper­a­tors’ teams with the nec­es­sary skills to offer out­stand­ing cus­tomer ser­vice.”

Car­los Naufel, Pres­i­dent & CEO of Embraer Ser­vices & Sup­port as well as ECTS Chair­man, added, “As the train­ing provider for Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, ECTS will ensure pilots, main­te­nance tech­ni­cians and ground per­son­nel receive spe­cialised train­ing and acquire the skill and con­fi­dence to safe­ly oper­ate Eve’s eVTOL in and around the world’s busiest urban cen­tres.”

The release explains, “The joint ven­ture between Embraer and CAE, estab­lished in 2007, began with a con­tract to pro­vide pilot and ground crew train­ing for Embraer’s Phe­nom 100 and Phe­nom 300 cus­tomers. Today, the JV oper­ates nine full-flight sim­u­la­tors glob­al­ly, with more slat­ed for 2025.” 

It con­tin­ues, “Ear­li­er this year, it marked a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone by launch­ing the first E2 full-flight sim­u­la­tor in Asia, fur­ther strength­en­ing its growth tra­jec­to­ry. Lever­ag­ing CAE’s exten­sive glob­al net­work of train­ing cen­tres, ECTS ensures com­pre­hen­sive train­ing cov­er­age, deliv­er­ing the high-qual­i­ty cus­tomer expe­ri­ence that has become a hall­mark of its ser­vice.”

Car­los Naufel

Alexan­dre Pre­vost, CAE’s Divi­sion Pres­i­dent, Busi­ness Avi­a­tion Train­ing and ECTS Board Mem­ber, remarked, “Safe­ty will be essen­tial to the adop­tion and growth of AAM, and high­ly trained per­son­nel are key to safe oper­a­tions.”

He con­tin­ued, “As part of the long-term agree­ment, CAE will be respon­si­ble for pro­duc­ing all equip­ment and course­ware for pilot, main­te­nance, and ground han­dling train­ing for Eve Air Mobil­i­ty.”

Adding, “CAE con­tin­ues to make sig­nif­i­cant invest­ments in AAM to deliv­er inno­v­a­tive and immer­sive prod­ucts and train­ing solu­tions that are specif­i­cal­ly tai­lored to the indus­try and today’s learn­ers.”

Eve boasts the industry’s largest back­log with let­ters of intent (LOI) for 2,900 eVTOLs from 30 cus­tomers in 13 coun­tries, rep­re­sent­ing a poten­tial USD14.5 bil­lion in sales rev­enue.

Next comes news of Eve col­lab­o­rat­ing with Omni Heli­copters Inter­na­tion­al Group (OHI) and Revo, its Brazil­ian AAM plat­form, to devel­op an ecosys­tem after suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ing an urban air traf­fic sim­u­la­tion in São Paulo.

This sim­u­la­tion, which utilised Revo’s heli­copters and Vec­tor, Eve’s Traf­fic Man­age­ment soft­ware solu­tion, took place at Revo’s oper­a­tions con­trol cen­tre in the city. 

While shad­ow­ing Revo’s heli­copter oper­a­tions, Vec­tor sim­u­lat­ed the man­age­ment and track­ing of eVTOL oper­a­tions in an urban envi­ron­ment, apply­ing the ser­vices nec­es­sary to respond to var­i­ous sce­nar­ios, includ­ing delay on depar­ture and to des­ti­na­tion, airspace/weather con­straints and in-flight devi­a­tion to alter­nate land­ing loca­tions. These were all test­ed in late Octo­ber. 

The release explains, “The sim­u­la­tion focused on val­i­dat­ing new traf­fic man­age­ment ser­vices nec­es­sary for eVTOLs to con­duct safe and reli­able oper­a­tions at entry into ser­vices and in high-util­i­sa­tion use cas­es at scale.”

It con­tin­ues, “Eve and Revo have also been part­ner­ing to encour­age crit­i­cal AAM stake­hold­er col­lab­o­ra­tion to devel­op best-in-class eVTOL oper­a­tions prac­tices, air man­age­ment pro­to­cols, and ground han­dling. Renowned for hav­ing the world’s largest num­ber of heli­copter oper­a­tions, São Paulo presents a sig­nif­i­cant oppor­tu­ni­ty for eVTOLs to rev­o­lu­tion­ize trans­porta­tion in one of the world’s largest and traf­fic-con­gest­ed cities.”

Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve, stat­ed, “This sim­u­la­tion rein­forces Eve’s efforts to intro­duce eVTOL flights to met­ro­pol­i­tan areas and pro­vide com­mu­ni­ties with an addi­tion­al mode of trans­porta­tion that is safe, sus­tain­able, and effi­cient. We’re delight­ed to part­ner with Revo for this ini­tia­tive to fos­ter the urban air mobil­i­ty mar­ket in Latin Amer­i­ca’s largest city.”

Jere­my Akel, CEO of OHI, remarked, “Recent­ly, we con­tributed to avi­a­tion his­to­ry in Brazil with the first and longest uncrewed civ­il flight to an off­shore plat­form, co-exist­ing in air­space with oth­er air­craft. This demon­strates that we have the expe­ri­ence and vision to help shape the future of air mobil­i­ty.”

João Welsh, CEO of Revo, added, “We took the first step just over a year ago, start­ing an accel­er­at­ed learn­ing process with heli­copters to lead this tran­si­tion. Ear­ly col­lab­o­ra­tion between indus­try lead­ers, reg­u­la­tors, urban plan­ners, infra­struc­ture devel­op­ers, and local com­mu­ni­ties will help ensure that key chal­lenges are addressed holis­ti­cal­ly, and we will con­tin­ue to devel­op the ecosys­tem over the com­ing months.”

The sim­u­la­tion and devel­op­ment of the AAM ecosys­tem in Sao Paulo are in addi­tion to the Revo’s pre-order of up to 50 of Eve’s eVTOL, access to Eve Tech­Care, Eve’s all-in-one ser­vice port­fo­lio for eVTOLs, and Vec­tor.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.eveairmobility.com

https://www.omnihelicoptersinternational.com

www.flyrevo.com

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