The Global Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Academic Paper Competition offers a platform for university students from around the world to showcase their groundbreaking ideas, research, and insights within the realm of AAM. This competition seeks to engage students in exploring various aspects of AAM, including, but not limited to, technology, safety, regulation, urban planning, legal considerations, and sustainability.
Competition theme: Advancing AAM solutions
Competition details:
Objective: The competition aims to stimulate innovative concepts for new AAM solutions and services.
Eligibility: Open to university students enrolled in a Master’s, or a PhD program. Students enrolled in the final year of a Bachelor’s degree may also participate.
Submission guidelines: See competition timeline below.
Recognition: Winners will have the exclusive opportunity to present their work during the prestigious AAM 2024 event.
Distinguished jury: The discerning panel includes the following representatives:
Iryna Borschchova, Ph. D., Research Officer, National Research Council Canada (NRC)
Robin Garrity, Senior External Affairs Officer, Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR)
Adriana Andreeva-Mori, Researcher in Aeronautics (Air Traffic Management, Operations), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Dr. Kelley Hashemi, Airspace Operations and Safety Program Partnerships Lead, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Divya Bhadoria, Manager, AMP Airspace Operations, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Jim Murphy, AAM System Architect, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Michael Patterson, Ph. D., AAM Mission Integration Office Systems Analysis Lead, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Competition timeline:
Announcement of competition opening: 6 October 2023
Initial title/abstract/bio submission deadline: 30 November 2023
We’re excited to announce our upcoming 2-day BVLOS risk quantification workshops, designed to support enabling BVLOS flights at a large scale in the UK. This exclusive opportunity will cover the intricacies of risk quantification in the context of SORA and beyond.
However, we can’t finalise the details without YOUR input. Please take a moment to fill out our survey to help us determine the best time and place for these workshops. As a token of our appreciation, all survey respondents will get early access to bookings. Remember, seats are limited and it’s a first-come-first-serve basis.
These workshops will be £500 for non-members and FREE for all ARPAS-UK members.
Each organisation can only send one attendee. For companies interested in group training, private bookings are available. For further details, please reach out to membership@arpas.uk.
I’ve never had a show where the only break over the two days was 20 minutes due to how busy we were. It was great to see so many current members, returning members, new members and meet others with whom to collaborate to take the industry forwards. Thank you to everyone for their patience in waiting to speak to us.
We also had the wonderful Faltrego team filming for the mentoring project of young people that we’re part of this autumn in conjunction with Brightside, a charity with 20 years experience of running mentoring projects. This project will be brilliant if the quality of the mentors is anything to go by! David Walters, Karl EzeDeborah Saban-Eppel
There was huge interest in the BVLOS Risk Quantification course as well. The UK is going to have some extremely highly skilled UAS operators ready for BVLOS. Via the BVLOS Technical Special Interest Group and feeding into the NATS BVLOS Forum, we’ll keep working on the issues and practicalities at industry level.
Add to that, the interest in our CPD webinars, the guided tours of the show and the standing room only presentation that Anne-Lise Scaillierez & Graham Brown in conjunction with Frost & Sullivan & PwC UK gave on the Latest Market Outlook, and I can confidently say that was definitely a good event.
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VIEW ARPAS-UK KEYNOTE @ DRONEX 2023
Great to see you all at DroneX over the past couple of days. For those who could not make it, you can still view our keynote. Special thanks to Craig Roberts at PWC and Mike Rowe at Frost & Sullivan who joined us and shared their latest analysis on UAS and AAM. As always, do reach out for comments or feedback.
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BSI Future Flight Vocabulary Standard: share your comments by 13 Oct. Watch introduction video
BSI issued its first iteration of the BSI Future Flight Vocabulary Standard. Make it yours and take it to the next level by commenting on the BSI dedicated webportal: REGISTER AND COMMENT HERE.
Consultation closes on 13 October (originally 30 September).
And why not join the BSI Standard Hub Community? You will have access to a range of useful information, including the first Future Flight Standards Landscape. Join HERE.
In the meantime, watch the introduction video with Chris Gee, Head of Sector, Air Mobility and Philippa Morrell, Editorial Project Manager at BSI:
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Travelling through airports with your drone
Most airports, airfields and spaceports have a flight restriction zone (FRZ) that applies to drones and unmanned aircraft.
In a recent drone podcast by the CAA, Tom Guest from the CAA RPAS team explains why these FRZs are in place and how they work. They also cover guidance for passengers who are travelling with a drone and what to be aware of when you’re at the airport. You’ll also hear from Gatwick Airport’s Stable Operations Lead, Aaron Bassett, who explains what happens when their systems detect a drone and the impact this can have on airport operations.
