WOMEN IN AAM PODCAST: Dr Tracy Lamb on Safety, Regulation, and Public Trust in Advanced Air Mobility

The lat­est episode of our Women in AAM Pod­cast is now live! This week, our Chair­per­son Mar­i­lyn Pear­son sits down with Dr. Tra­cy Lamb.

She is a glob­al­ly respect­ed avi­a­tion and aero­space safe­ty leader, inter­na­tion­al air­line pilot, and human fac­tors expert with more than 20 years of expe­ri­ence across com­mer­cial avi­a­tion, advanced aero­space pro­grams, and emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies.

Dr. Lamb shares deep insights into the rapid­ly evolv­ing world of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, unpack­ing how glob­al reg­u­la­tors, stan­dards bod­ies, and indus­try lead­ers are work­ing to har­mo­nize cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, oper­a­tions, and safe­ty frame­works for eVTOL air­craft.

Draw­ing on her expe­ri­ence with ICAO, RTCA, and inter­na­tion­al reg­u­la­tors, she explains why reg­u­la­to­ry har­mo­niza­tion is com­plex, why time­lines often shift, and how dif­fer­ences in cul­ture, oper­a­tions, and orga­ni­za­tion­al matu­ri­ty impact entry into ser­vice.

The con­ver­sa­tion explores some of the most crit­i­cal chal­lenges fac­ing AAM today, includ­ing latent safe­ty haz­ards, orga­ni­za­tion­al readi­ness, pilot train­ing, automa­tion, and the human fac­tors that don’t always show up in ear­ly flight test­ing.

Dr. Lamb intro­duces lis­ten­ers to the con­cept of the “safe­ty con­tin­u­um,” resilience engi­neer­ing, and Safe­ty-II thinking—highlighting why design­ing sys­tems to fail safe­ly and adapt under stress is essen­tial as AAM scales toward pas­sen­ger oper­a­tions.

Click on the Play but­ton below to lis­ten to the episode, which is also avail­able on whichev­er pod­cast plat­form you use.