Posts about stuff relating to airports
Navigating Vertiport Design Specifications
Just under four years ago, I wrote a primer on “Urban Air Mobility.” I had the best intentions in developing a series of articles on vertiport design concepts and standards. But I never did.
At the time, there was practically no data on aircraft performance nor any indication from regulators regarding how they would manage these new facilities. And I had no idea I would be part of a crack team developing Australian vertiport design, operations and certification standards. But here were are.
In this post, let’s take a moment to review the current state of play.
Effortlessly Summarise Videos with ChatGPT: Vertiports Edition
On the heels of my post on ChatGPT summarising incident reports, I wanted to highlight another summary workflow that is gaining traction, as well as a recent online webinar that included me. In early December, my CASA colleagues Joe Hain, Liam Smith and I held an introductory webinar on the draft Advisory Circular that just went out for consultation.
But maybe you were too busy to attend, and perhaps you’re still too busy to sit there and watch the video.
If this is the case, here comes ChatGPT to the rescue.
Header image: Judit Peter (via Pexels):
What is Urban Air Mobility? An Airport Operator Primer
Just in case you’ve missed the news recently, drones are a big deal. It’s a billion dollar business, disrupting traditional business models and, most importantly for airport operator, just plain disrupting business. And, as you can imagine, just following the news doesn’t give you a necessarily clear or complete picture of our potential future with these aircraft.
I’d like to jump in and look at one particular area of this phenomenon and it’s relationship to airports but before we do, I feel like it is necessary to scan the field and sort through some of the complexity.
Image credit: (c) Airbus