New rules of the sky ensure eVTOL pilot safety

Air­speed­er is the world’s first rac­ing series for elec­tric fly­ing cars. To ensure the safe­ty of the race oper­a­tions, there are a num­ber of ele­ments that need to be con­sid­ered.

First of all, there is need to imple­ment a val­i­dat­ed safe­ty case designed to ensure that the Air­speed­er is ulti­mate­ly fit for pur­pose and safe to oper­ate, and all the race staff are appro­pri­ate­ly trained. The func­tion­al safe­ty of the vehi­cle needs to be con­sid­ered to ensure that the vehi­cle oper­ates as intend­ed.

Safe­ty needs to be assured by mak­ing sure that the crash­wor­thi­ness of the vehi­cle is sound and pro­tects the occu­pants of the air­craft. Pilots and all the asso­ci­at­ed crew and race con­trol staff need to be appro­pri­ate­ly trained in radio com­mu­ni­ca­tions to ensure that there is no con­fu­sion with input from the pilots and engi­neers.

Close but safe air rac­ing is assured through lat­est LiDAR and radar tech­nolo­gies that cre­ate vir­tu­al force fields around the sport’s cut­ting edge quad­copter for­mat fly­ing cars. Rapid hair-pin turn­ing manoeu­vra­bil­i­ty is deliv­ered using a mul­ti­copter lay­out. This also enhances sta­bil­i­ty while elec­tron­ic speed con­trol sys­tems empow­er pilots to exploit the full poten­tial of advanced elec­tric pow­er­trains.

Airspeeder’s first unmanned air races (EXA Series) were held in 2022 and fea­tured a grid of mul­ti­ro­tor unmanned Air­speed­er Mk3 rac­ing craft. The best pilots from drone rac­ing will utilise the lat­est RPAS (remote­ly pilot­ed air­craft sys­tems) in aer­i­al bat­tles across the globe.

Air­speed­er intro­duces world’s first elec­tric fly­ing car rac­ing pilots, as prepa­ra­tions con­tin­ue for new EXA series lat­er this year