Vertical Flight Society workshop to address key points surrounding eVTOL landing infrastructure

A three-day work­shop organ­ised by the Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety, which will plot out a plan of action to advance eVTOL air­craft land­ing infra­struc­ture, is start­ing from tomor­row (Tues­day) at 10am EDT.

This is the fourth event of its kind — after the first work­shop in 2019 — and will be held vir­tu­al­ly from March 2nd to 4th. It will pro­vide an open forum to stake­hold­ers and inter­est­ed par­ties from indus­try and applic­a­ble gov­ern­ment and reg­u­la­to­ry bod­ies to dis­cuss pol­i­cy require­ments as they relate to urban air mobil­i­ty tech­nol­o­gy and infra­struc­ture.

The work­shop is in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) and state, region­al and local US gov­ern­ments, and will also include updates from the FAA Tech Cen­ter and pre­sen­ta­tions from key play­ers from the indus­try and facil­i­tat­ed dis­cus­sions to set the roadmap.

Top­ics includ­ing Infra­struc­ture Pol­i­cy Chal­lenges, State and Munic­i­pal­i­ty Strate­gic Con­sid­er­a­tions and Advanc­ing Tech­nol­o­gy Through Pol­i­cy will be dis­cussed by indus­try experts from com­pa­nies such as 5‑Alpha, the Com­mu­ni­ty Air Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (CAMI), Deloitte, P3 Tech Con­sult­ing and NEXA Advi­sors. Oth­er com­pa­nies fea­tured dur­ing the three days include Bell, Eve Urban Air Mobil­i­ty, HMMH, Hyundai, NASA, PS&S and Wisk.

Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety has also set the fol­low­ing deliv­er­ables from the event, which are as fol­lows:

• Build upon exist­ing safe­ty data to iden­ti­fy pre-com­pet­i­tive areas where proac­tive indus­try col­lab­o­ra­tion would be valu­able in accel­er­at­ing adop­tion
• Iden­ti­fy col­lab­o­ra­tive oppor­tu­ni­ties between indus­try and gov­ern­ment agen­cies that will ben­e­fit the UAM indus­try
• Draft con­sen­sus-based strate­gies to advance pol­i­cy at key Fed­er­al, State and Local lev­els

Reg­is­tra­tion for this work­shop costs $100 for fed­er­al, state, local US gov­ern­ment employ­ees and speak­ers, $200 for cur­rent Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety mem­bers and $300 for non-mem­bers. The price for non-mem­bers includes a one-year mem­ber­ship.

For more infor­ma­tion and to view an agen­da over the three days, click .