Pipistrel hosts first maintenance course on electric aircraft and plans to organise new date next month

Pip­istrel has obtained the right to train Part-66 licenced air­craft mechan­ics on how to main­tain its Velis Elec­tro — cur­rent­ly the world’s only cer­ti­fied all-elec­tric air­craft — and is plan­ning to host a new course next month.

The Sloven­ian-based com­pa­ny held its first five-day work­shop in Decem­ber 2020 and car­ried out a sec­ond course last week. With sig­nif­i­cant inter­est from indi­vid­u­als and oth­er firms across the indus­try, Pip­istrel is now set to organ­ise more events in future. It is hoped a work­shop can take place every month.

Announc­ing the course on its web­site, it said: “Organ­is­ing a sem­i­nar of this kind is a great achieve­ment and hon­our for Pip­istrel. The road to this point was very long and required coop­er­a­tion of many indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions. At this point, Pip­istrel would like to thank the Euro­pean Union Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Agency and the Sloven­ian Civ­il Avi­a­tion Agency for their help and sup­port.

“We would also like to thank the entire teams of Pip­istrel d.o.o., which is the hold­er of the autho­ri­sa­tion, and Pip­istrel Ver­ti­cal Solu­tion, which par­tic­i­pat­ed in the entire phase of prepa­ra­tion of man­u­al and train­ing pro­gram, for their dili­gent inter­nal coop­er­a­tion.”

Pip­istrel achieved type cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for its bat­tery-pow­ered Velis Elec­tro from the Euro­pean Union Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Agency (EASA) in June 2020, after suc­cess­ful­ly demon­strat­ing the air­craft achieves the high­est lev­els of safe­ty. It is the cul­mi­na­tion of years of inten­sive research and sev­er­al suc­cess­ful award-win­ning elec­tric air­craft mod­els, which it has been devel­op­ing since 2007.

Con­ceived as a fun­da­men­tal part of the Velis Train­ing Sys­tem, the Velis Elec­tro is designed to be sim­ple to oper­ate and main­tain, with­out com­pro­mis­ing safe­ty. Employ­ing Pipistrel’s type cer­ti­fied elec­tric engine, the Velis Elec­tro deliv­ers pow­er instant­ly and with­out hes­i­ta­tion – using a sim­pli­fied user inter­face in a cock­pit that main­tains the same look-and-feel of its con­ven­tion­al­ly pow­ered sib­lings.

For those who are inter­est­ed and want more infor­ma­tion, please email info@pipistrel-aircraft.com