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The Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is an emerging form of air transportation service in low-altitude airspace. UAM is an industry term used to describe the system that enables on-demand, highly automated, passenger or cargo-carrying air transportation services within and around a metropolitan environment. The Urban Air Mobility market is projected to grow at a rate of 16.2% by 2030, to reach USD 7.9 billion in 2030 from USD 3.1 billion in 2023. The market is still at a nascent stage and is expected to witness the first ray of commercialization by 2023.
India’s DGAC takes first steps to urban air mobility with request for industry BVLOS partners
India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has invited Express of Interest (EOI) from consortia of experts for conducting experimental beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) in India, leading to the submission of proof of concept (POC) for safe BVLOS operations. Interested organisations can submit a detailed proposal to Hillol Biswas, director (Aircraft Engineering), Office of Director General of Civil Aviation. As per the note from G.Rajasekar, Joint DGCA, the experimental BVLOS operation followed by submission of POC must be completed before DGCA issues any regulations for BVLOS operations in the country. The note also states that the objective of proposed experimental BVLOS operations must be to conduct experimental BVLOS operations of RPA systems in controlled conditions within identified and segregated low Indian territorial airspace for a period of at least two months. The scope of experiments includes BVLOS RPAS operation, UAS traffic management (UTM) system deployment, supplementary services for UTM (3D maps, weather data, surveillance and telemetry data of manned and unmanned aircraft, population data etc.).
Mr. Arun Kumar
Mechanical Engineer